A halfhearted tribute to the all-city king
This is the 190th Street A station, where Victor Hess performed his subterranean radiation research.
As we learned earlier, the bridge that stood on this site in the early 1900s had to be replaced with a larger one able to accommodate the new subway line that would be passing over it (you can see a 1 train — or two 1 trains that just passed each other, if you look closely enough — on the bridge in this shot). The existing bridge, which was still perfectly usable, was simply floated down the river and installed at a new location that needed a crossing. The bridge you see here, opened in 1962, is a newer incarnation of that original replacement.
Unlike the rest of the borough, Marble Hill is full of freestanding houses, some of which even have lawns!
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
Email me at matt@imjustwalkin.com
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~9,954 miles walked
Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!
