Mount Loretto Unique Area is a New York State Park maintained by the New York State Dept. or Environmental Conservation. It is located on Raritan bay in Pleasant Plains neighborhood of Staten Island, near its southern tip. As you can judge by a simple google search, Mount Loretto has something for most anyone looking for something special in the city. Its not just a romantic sea view there are --amazing birds, plants, trees, sea life (seals and horseshoe crabs and sea shells), and lots and lots of sweet round rocks! These rocks have helped the area achieve a quiet fame as a...

Demolition Interruptus

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

An interrupted demolition. Not quite enough to finish the job... (though that will surely happen soon in this prime post superfund location For now, it makes makes a great place to visit! See it while you can... but be careful! Look Up! maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll= . . . .002368,0.004646&t=h&z=18

Manhattan Bridge Nocturne

author: CartLegger : New York, NY

from national historic register: New York's first bridges were engineering marvels, but little thought was given to entrances and exits, instead focusing primarily on the river crossing. That changed with the evolution of the City Beautiful movement, and one of its crowning accomplishments was the Manhattan Bridge plaza, completed in 1916, seven years after the Manhattan Bridge itself, and designed by the architect team Carrère & Hastings, best known for their 1898 New York Public Library. Over one thousand families were evicted to accomodate the plaza on a rectangle 400'x750' bounded by the Bowery, Canal, Bayard and Forsyth Streets. The plaza...

Triborough!

author: CartLegger : New York, NY

One of the greatest of the bridges of New York City, connecting Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx over Randall's/Ward's Island Built by Robert Moses in 1937, it was the first bridge designed for motorcars. But Pedestrians were also an integral aspect of this bridge's design. You really feel that on two wheels. But the ramp is like a prize for getting over to Randall's Island! Do it soon! Riding weather is here!

Rickety City

author: CartLegger : Queens, NY

Looking westward from Halletts Cove, just south of Astoria section of Queens, NY, across from the Lighthouse at the north end of Roosevelt Island Or, as I tried to imagine, the old dock back home... full disclosure: There never was an old dock back home.

The Shortest Bridge to the Bronx

author: CartLegger : Bronx, NY

from Randall's Island to the Bronx across Bronx Kill, it may be the shortest inter-borough Bridge in NYC. Yes, unlike the other bridges of New York City. But its still a bridge, right? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bronx&sll=40.683007,-73.980064&sspn=0.037881,0.090981&ie=UTF8&ll=40.801768,-73.922072&spn=0.001182,0.002843&t=h&z=19

Hell Gate, NY

author: CartLegger : Queens, NY

Hell gate is the back door to the city, leading in from Long Island Sound into the East River. It is spanned by the Triborough and Hellgate Bridges. It is most probably named for its tumultuous tides... ##"The confluence of Long Island Sound/The East River & The Harlem River at Randalls Island has long been a incredibly turbulent waterway when the tides are running. While easy to navigate at slack tides, even for people in Kayaks, currents up to 5-10 knots are not unusual when the tide floods back in from New York Harbor & The Atlantic or when the tide...

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