Tag: Viaduct

  • Metro-North Track Rebuild

    Metro-North Track Rebuild

    The Metro-North tracks from East 115th Street up to East 122nd Street will be replaced over the next couple of years. Starting this summer, the contractor will be building the new concrete supports under the existing tracks, getting them ready. This process of building the new concrete supports will take about a year, and only…

  • Urban Garden Center’s Storage Area

    Urban Garden Center’s Storage Area

    If you recall the fire under the Metro North tracks at 118th Street a few years back, the fire was the result of material that the Urban Garden Center had been storing under the tracks, between 117 and 118th Streets. This photo shows the storage of everything from concrete block, to pallets, to soil, to…

  • Metro North Viaduct Replacement Update

    Metro North Viaduct Replacement Update

    The team is working to minimize impacts to the community and on Metro-North Railroad schedules. Over the next several months, mobilization and some site activity will occur for Phase 1 of the PAV project. Then, beginning this summer, we expect to begin work underneath the Viaduct, constructing new footings and columns (substructure work). In coordination…

  • 115 to 123

    115 to 123

    Metro North is going to be completely replacing the elevated tracks between 115th Street and 123rd Street, starting in about 9 months or a year. However, not only are they going to do this massive task, but they’ll do it while the tracks are in use. The engineering behind this is all predicated on closing…

  • 126th Street and Lenox Ave

    126th Street and Lenox Ave

    Looking eastward, from Lenox Avenue along West 126th Street. And the same view, from 1904, showing a special riveted rectangular water pipe, over the roof of the subway. And Further West… The Riverside Drive Viaduct at 125th Street (photographer Berenice Abbott) ~1937

  • Wheelie Life

    Wheelie Life

    If you’ve ever seen a wave of young people doing wheelies down a Harlem street on bicycles, this documentary explores the culture, the comradery, and the thrills inherent in this urban subculture. Featuring a number of shots and interviews under the Harlem Viaduct (125th Street and the Harlem River), the documentary follows the athleticism and…

  • Redlining and Affordable Housing

    Redlining and Affordable Housing

    Decades of disinvestment, planned neglect, and overtly biased policies followed the devastation caused by redlining. The 1938 map below of northern Manhattan shows how our community was redlined: The on-the-ground consequence of both redlining and its aftermath is seen in short film, shot from a car in the 1980’s. It has taken decades of public…

  • The Train Used to Stop at 110th Street

    The Train Used to Stop at 110th Street

    Above is a rendering of the 110th Street station in 1876 on what became the Metro-North line on Park Avenue. Note that above 110th street the train line was not on an iron el platform, and instead was on a solid masonry platform. You can see spacious upper Manhattan farmland, a few brownstones (long since gone…