Central Park

I had to include these pictures of The Lake in Central Park. These were some of my favorite shorelines on our road trip although none were...

Hudson River

I don't think there are any beaches in these shots - although there is still a little bit of the original rocky shoreline just north of...

Spuyten Duyvil

Spuyten Duyvil (remember, New York was settled by the Dutch) refers to the area at the west end of the Harlem River, where it converges wit...

Harlem River

I suppose even a New Yorker might not know much about the Harlem River, other than that it separates Manhattan from the Bronx. Both the Gre...

Brooklyn

Before the trip, I had been reading Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Walk around Manhattan , a wonderful essay on history, urban plannin...