[Thundertubs]

178th Street, Manhattan (doesn't relly fit with the thead, I just liked the picture)
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-Bonkers for Yonkers-
We had a globe I used to look at as a little kid. I remember my mom pointing out that we lived under the 'O' in YONKERS.
Yonkers is a city of about 200,000 in southwestern Westchester County, bordering the NW Bronx.
This whole tour is taken from Bergen County, New Jersey. Pics were taken in September and October of 2005.
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Yonkers comes from the Dutch "de Jonkers" meaning The Aristocrats
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Bronx downriver
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Yonkers
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We'll get there...
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The Hudson River is not actually a river here. It is a tidal estuary, meaning it experiences tides in and out and does not flow in one direction like a river. Bad for pollution.
New York City only has one true river, the Bronx River, as the Harlem and East rivers are technically straits (two mouths, no source).
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The Mighty Hudson Estuary
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The trail on the new Jersey side. This is Palisades State Park.
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Yonk'n
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Bad pic, but is shows some industry and 60's robo-apartments in Yonkers
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Wait for it...
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Bronx
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Dumb pleasurecraft, gettin in my way...
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The Henry Hudson Bridge, seperating the northern tip of Manhattan from the Spuyten Duyvil section of The Bronx
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The mighty George Washington Bridge, known as 'the GWB' or simply 'the bridge' locally.
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Finished in 1931, it is one of the busiest bridges in the world. 108 million vehicles crossed it in 2004. The total span is 1,450 feet, almost exactly as long as the Sears Tower is tall. The main span is 1,067 feet.
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The bridge was double decked, with the lower deck opening in 1962, which increased capacity by 75%. there are 14 lanes in total. Both decks are bi-directional, with the lower being cars-only.
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It's a $6* toll to get into Manhattan. Returning to New Jersey, as with all the best things in life, is free.
*I think it's $8 during peak now.
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Around the 190's streets of Manhattan. The bridge is at 178th.
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The New York side has steep cliffs as well
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For perspective, Riverside Catherdral is around 120th street, the Empire State Building is on 34th. 20 blocks to the mile...
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This is a relatively new landfill park on the river. we're looking back at the NJ Palisades. The New Jersey Palisades are a 350-500 foot high wall of rock along the Hudson River across from New York. The highest and most dramatic portion of the cliffs is across from Upper Manhattan, The Bronx, and Yonkers.
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The bridge was covered in scaffolding.
The original plan in the late 20's was to cover it in granite, like the Brooklyn Bridge, but when the depression struck, the bridge was left with it's bare steel frame.
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Columbia Presbetyrian to the right. Note the Little Red Lighthouse.
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I remember when I was a kid and heading to a birthday party, when we got on the bridge the kids in the car decided to tickle me until we got to the NY side. Not cool. There are signs halfway on the bridge that say Welcome To NY or NJ.
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Tunnel to nowhere
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Climbing a trail up the Palisades. One great thing about being from around here is you get to do stuff like this that a visitor to NY would never have on thier radar. There's alot of neat stuff outside the city.
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upper Washington Heights
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Yikes
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Who doesn't like tugboats?
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About this time I unknowingly knocked the switch on my camera from Auto to Manual, without adjusting anything, which is wy the pics look like crap. It was also kinda smoggy.
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The Cloisters (center), the tallest buildings in The Bronx (left), and that sweet NY air.
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Dude, you can see the Whitestone Bridge (or is that the Throgs Neck?) from up here.
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You can also see the Hell Gate Bridge. It's really cool that you can see that from New Jersey.
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Up here I walked past two goodfellas in leather jackets who halted thier conversation and stared at me while I walked past. I wish I was kidding.
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The cliffs
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The section of Bergen County, NJ along the Palisades north of the bridge was bought up by John D. Rockefeller early on, and it remains very exclusive, undeveloped area with scattered mansions. The town of Alpine, NJ, with 2,000 residents is undoubtly the per-capita leader in black millionaires, with homes there owned by: Chris Rock, Denzel Washington, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Damon Dash, Patrick Ewing, Lil Kim, Puff Daddy, Gary Sheffield, Russell Simmons, Wesley Snipes, and Stevie Wonder. I love that Gary Sheffield is part of that list.
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The mighty Hudson. My camera is still on manual, hence the darkness.
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eew. Parts of The Bronx have some of the highest rates of asthma in the nation.
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I'll throw in some shots from the Hoboken waterfront from last June. Looking north at the GWB.
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Looking downriver. Manhattan - The Verrazano - Jersey City
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Frank Sinatra Blvd.
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here's a few I took from the back of my dad's car on christmas eve this year.
I love the Dutch-looking buildings with an amazing view of the river and Palisades.
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[pj3000]

Nice views up there. I never tire of crossing the GWB and marveling in the city's grandeur. It seems that people often forget that NYC abounds with natural scenic beauty.

[Patrick]

Holy God those pictures are amazing. The last one is just WOW.

[Evergrey]

incredible pics... love these views...

thanks for getting me...
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[kcexpress69]

Excellent photothread!! It's nice to see NYC from a different angle. I have never seen Yonkers before. I didn't know if it was a suburb with residential towers, or something more. I also wasn't aware that there were bluffs along the Hudson. I guess you learn something new about NYC all the time!! Great shots!! :yes:

[stupac14]

I really enjoyed this thread. I loved the unique views of NY and the commentary. Thanks.

[Snoshredder21]

Definatly my one of my favorite areas of the city. Such amazing landscape with the hills and cliffs along the Hudson.

[STLgasm]

Ocean, mountains, city... New York truly has it all.

[yamezfairos]

Many of these pictures are very well composed.

[ItsConanOBrien]

Nice shots, I always thought this area looked interesting.

[ThisSideofSteinway]

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Wow - it looks like you might have taken this around the time when that retaining wall collapsed onto the parkway (or I could just be seeing that wrong).

Great shots all around!

[10101000]

I adore the photos! Thanks

[Jularc]

Oh yeah, I love to hang out in that area of the NJ Palisades for a short urban getaway. :D

Also that retaining wall has already been fix, so I assume these are old photos.

Taken in January 25, 2008 by me....

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[BigBird9]

WOW

I must say that those are by far the most unique shots of the NYC area that I've ever seen. I had no idea that is looked like that up there. Great shots! :tup:

[Complex01]

A very unique view. I likes. Very Nice...

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[rs913]

Many NYers don't know that the GW Bridge has a pedestrian/bike walkway, which provides a great way to enjoy these views for yourself. All you have to do is take the A up to 181st st if I remember correctly, and the bridge is a short walk from there. I've done it a few times. Highly recommended.

[boden]

Enjoyable collection you posted there Thundertubs!

[smArTaLlone]

Nice set.

[Buckley]

Many NYers don't know that the GW Bridge has a pedestrian/bike walkway, which provides a great way to enjoy these views for yourself. All you have to do is take the A up to 181st st if I remember correctly, and the bridge is a short walk from there. I've done it a few times. Highly recommended.

Several years ago my wife and I were in Manhattan for a weekend. I brought bikes with us (that I managed to squeeze into my car). On a Sunday AM, I asked the parking garage attendant to allow us to take the garage's elevator down into the sub-basement to get our bikes, and we went on a day long adventure across Central Park, trough the streets of Harlem, over a hill in Morningside Park, across the Columbia campus, and finally across the GW Bridge (which terrified my wife). We found a park in NJ, just south of the bridge and sat on a bluff overlooking the bridge, river, and city. We felt like we had discovered something hardly anyone else (of the millions within a few miles of us) seemed to be aware of. These pics really take me back to that trip.

[dvdmsy]

Thanks for these photos! It occurs to me just how much of a beacon and landmark the Empire State Building is. One can see it from thirty miles away in every direction (it's easily visible from the Tappan Zee, just up-river from where you were). Anyway, great shots. Oh, and I see those mafia guys often around Graham Ave. in Brooklyn. They're no joke. But I really think they need to fight their stereotypes. Seriously.