#bronx kill

[architectureforsuicides]

The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) Triborough Bronx Kill Truss Bridge / Triborough Bridge / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge / RFK Triborough Bridge / RFK Bridge / The RFK New York City, New York (USA) Bridge over the Bronx Kill Type: truss bridge.

[futurebird]

The NYT put up this overkill #map with all the neighborhoods. Parts of it are funny like these SIMPLE fools who think Marble Hill is “Riverdale” (just jump in the river.)

But, I also look at the parts of the city with no names. Dark water, dark islands. They are places too. They have names: Rikers, Bronx Kill, Helle Gate, N. Brother Island… places we ignore— water, the wilds, the prison boat.

An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods

More than 37,000 New Yorkers told us where their neighborhoods start and end. We mapped them all.

[newtownpentacle]

spiritual rapport

Tuesday affects us all.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

As mentioned yesterday, a trip to Randalls Wards Island was recently enacted, during which I saw a bird – pictured above. The history of these islands are – at best – a long and convoluted tale during which they changed names several times over many hundreds of years. Great Barent Island, anyone? Suffice to say that the most important thing in the…

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[freenycpics]

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DSC_0230 on Flickr.

Henry Hudson Bridge, tall bridge in the background spanning Manhattan and the Bronx on the West Side Highway, in the foreground is the rail bridge, Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, which has swiveled open to permit our boat, the Circle Line, to pass.