View from the south end of the park
People on the pier
Fish cleaning station.
There are several of these unexplained signs
Bicyclists no longer have to divert onto 12th Ave.
Arriving home late Thursday night I noticed that the Harlem Piers Park opened while I was away. It's a year or two behind schedule, and not all the park is open or finished, but it is finally open.
Currently the best thing about the park is that bicyclists can stay on the bike path and don't have to ride in the heavy and semi-lawless traffic under the Riverside Drive viaduct. Fairway is across the street, so this is going to be a convenient spot to take a break.
There are plans to have a ferry from Weehawken (that's the ramp in the bottom photo) and to open the southernmost pier to kayaks and such.
Trivia question for the older New Yorker and/or Chuck Barris fan: In the middle photo, what did those tall apartment buildings across the river replace?
The tall buildings are in NJ and they replaced Palisades Park, a great amusement park. In the early 1960's, Chuck Barris wrote a song about it and it was sung by Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon.
Posted by: Laura | 27 October 2008 at 09:11 AM
Palisades Amusement Park and the Ferry at 125th St Pier transported you across the river to Ft. Lee.
Posted by: NARMER | 27 October 2008 at 03:14 PM
Yes! Palisades Amusement Park. Here's a commercial and here's Freddie Cannon performing the Chuck Barris song.
Posted by: Joe | 27 October 2008 at 08:56 PM
The Freddie Cannon performance was on the Clay Cole Show
Posted by: NARMER | 28 October 2008 at 08:42 AM
This is a nice view where the people are sitting at.
Posted by: Electric Bicycles | 09 July 2009 at 12:01 PM