Made from found materials and located right in the middle of the sidewalk on Fordham Road
In 1906, the Broadway Bridge (at the northern tip of Manhattan) was replaced with a new double-level bridge that would carry both Broadway and a new subway line extension across the Harlem River Ship Canal. The old bridge was still in good shape, so they simply lifted it off its pier, floated it down the Harlem River, and installed it here as the University Heights Bridge. The bridge was reconstructed around 1990, but its designation as a landmark required its appearance to be maintained.
A football field's worth of beer and soft drinks, and open to the public!
This is one of a series of five little street-end parks on the Harlem River in Manhattan, from West 202nd Street to West 206th Street, in the mostly industrial part of Inwood known as Sherman Creek. There's a boat launch in this park, just to the right of the photo. (That's the University Heights Bridge in the background.)
Hundreds of discarded Christmas trees being chipped into mulch
That's the little-used name of the mile of I-95 that runs across northern Manhattan. There are four nearly identical high-rise apartment buildings — the one you see here and three more lined up right behind it — and a bus terminal built atop the highway.
This facility houses families while their apartments are undergoing lead abatement.
Part of a larger mural entitled "Weaving Change Beyond the Shadows"
This label was added just for Ed Koch. Ridiculous!
A popular statue in the botánicas I've seen so far
Wouldn't want a filthy canine befouling that pristine strip of vegetation.
Not too exciting, I know. Today was a slow day for doors. But this one does have a multi-directional peephole: the ol' DS-6!
The strangest — and most strangely named — park in the city, LaGuardia Landing Lights consists of a string of mundane swaths of grass cutting diagonally across the street grid and containing the landing lights for the approach to Runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport. (The end of the runway is so close to the edge of the airport's property that the landing lights have to extend out into the adjacent neighborhood.) The lights are fenced off, but the rest of the park is open to the public. When the wind conditions are right and the airport is using this approach, you can sit out here and watch planes come screaming over your head every 90 seconds or so.
One of New York's many wonderfully gross industrial waterways
The Institute was founded in 1868 by Conrad Poppenhusen, the rubber baron who developed College Point as a factory town, to provide education and training opportunities to area residents "irrespective of race, creed or religion". The building also housed the town's sheriff, the justice of the peace, a courtroom, a savings bank, a library, and the nation's first free kindergarten, established in 1870.
