12th Avenue

I walked 12th Avenue today - almost 13 miles.

Today's walk

This was one of my favorite walks - 12th Avenue (Riverside Dr. above 59th St., West St. below Gansevoort St.) runs down the west side of Manhattan along the Hudson.  It's lined with parks almost its entire length and is just plain pleasant.  

It starts around 181st St., just north of the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights and is lined with mansions and grand apartment buildings on one side and Riverside Park on the other for a few miles down through the Upper West Side.  This walk was in early May, so everything was in bloom and super scenic.

Below the UWS 12th Avenue passes along the remnants of old piers and warehouses (many of which have been renovated and re-purposed, but not all), recalling New York's days as the world's largest shipping hub.  Some of the piers have been rebuilt and now hold parks out over the river.  They're pretty cool.

At its base in lower Manhattan it passes by the World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial and ends in Battery Park.

Here are the pictures:

Start of walk

Riverside Dr. at 181st St.

GW Bridge

Riverside Dr. btw 181st St. and 180th St.

Midtown skyline

Riverside Dr. btw 181st St. and 180th St.

Altar

Riverside Dr. btw 177th St. and 176th St.

Columbia NY Presbyterian

Riverside Dr. btw 168th St. and 165th St.

Riverside Drive Apartment

Riverside Dr. btw 162nd St. and 161st St.

Riverside Drive House

Riverside Dr. btw 160th St. and 159th St.

View up the Hudson

Riverside Dr. btw 160th St. and 159th St.

View down the Hudson

Riverside Dr. btw 160th St. and 159th St.

Cool house

Riverside Dr. btw 158th St. and 157th St.

Boarded windows

Riverside Dr. btw 158th St. and 157th St.

Hill

Riverside Dr. btw 158th St. and 157th St.

Ship Lady

Riverside Dr. btw 155th St. and 153rd St.

Trinity Cemetery (I probably should have turned off the "Vivid Colors" setting on my camera)

Riverside Dr. btw 155th St. and 153rd St.

Riverside Drive

Riverside Dr. btw 148th St. and 147th St.

Riverside Drive

Riverside Dr. btw 146th St. and 145th St.

Riverside Castle

Riverside Dr. btw 140th St. and 139th St.

Lee Brothers Temple

Riverside Dr. btw 135th St. and 134th St.

Manhattan Valley

Riverside Dr. btw 131st St. and 130th St.

Manhattan Valley

Riverside Dr. btw 131st St. and 130th St.

Sakura Park

Riverside Dr. btw 123rd St. and 122nd St.

Grant's Tomb

Riverside Dr. btw 123rd St. and 122nd St.

Riverside Church

Riverside Dr. btw 122nd St. and 121st St.

Riverside Church

Riverside Dr. btw 122nd St. and 121st St.

Riverside Drive apartments

Riverside Dr. btw 119th St. and 116th St.

Woman's Health Protective Association fountain

Riverside Dr. btw 119th St. and 116th St.

Riverside Park

Riverside Dr. btw 119th St. and 116th St.

Riverside Drive apartments

Riverside Dr. btw 119th St. and 116th St.

Riverside Drive apartments

Riverside Dr. btw 113th St. and 112th St.

Cool window

Riverside Dr. btw 111th St. and 110th St.

Riverside Drive mansion

Riverside Dr. btw 109th St. and 108th St.

Franz Sigel statue

Riverside Dr. btw 107th St. and 106th St.

Bandit

Riverside Dr. btw 104th St. and 103rd St.

Mansions

Riverside Dr. btw 102nd St. and 101st St.

Cool windows

Riverside Dr. btw 98th St. and 97th St.

Apartments

Riverside Dr. btw 97th St. and 96th St.

This building had a Buffalo head,

Riverside Dr. btw 97th St. and 96th St.

and Buffalo skulls,

Riverside Dr. btw 97th St. and 96th St.

and swastikas? (to be fair, it was built in 1914)

Riverside Dr. btw 97th St. and 96th St.

Flowering trees

Riverside Dr. btw 95th St. and 94th St.

Joan of Arc

Riverside Dr. btw 93rd St. and 92nd St.

Liz Lemon's apartment

Riverside Dr. btw 88th St. and 87th St.

Artillery

Riverside Dr. btw 88th St. and 87th St.

Sailors and Soldiers Monument

Riverside Dr. btw 88th St. and 87th St.

Mansion

Riverside Dr. btw 84th St. and 83rd St.

Apartment building

Riverside Dr. btw 80th St. and 79th St.

More mansions

Riverside Dr. btw 80th St. and 79th St.

Even more mansions

Riverside Dr. btw 77th St. and 76th St.

Classy porch

Riverside Dr. btw 77th St. and 76th St.

Decorative horse trough

Riverside Dr. btw 76th St. and 75th St.

Surprise, another mansion!

Riverside Dr. btw 76th St. and 75th St.

Last mansion

Riverside Dr. btw 73rd St. and 72nd St.

Nice door

Riverside Dr. btw 73rd St. and 72nd St.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Riverside Dr. btw 73rd St. and 72nd St.

West side pier remnants

Riverside Dr. btw 68th St. and 67th St.

Riverside park ball fields

Riverside Dr. btw 68th St. and 67th St.

End of Riverside Drive

Riverside Dr. btw 63rd St. and 62nd St.

Cool mural pt. 1

12th Ave. btw 51st St. and 50th St.

Cool mural pt. 2

12th Ave. btw 51st St. and 50th St.

USS Intrepid

12th Ave. btw 46th St. and 45th St.

USS Intrepid

12th Ave. btw 46th St. and 45th St.

Hudson River

12th Ave. btw 35th St. and 34th St.

Hudson River Greenway

12th Ave. btw 29th St. and 28th St.

View of Midtown from pier

12th Ave. btw 27th St. and 26th St.

Water wheel

12th Ave. btw 27th St. and 26th St.

The Frying Pan

12th Ave. btw 25th St. and 24th St.

Hudson River

12th Ave. btw 25th St. and 24th St.

Chelsea Piers

12th Ave. btw 25th St. and 24th St.

Park Pier

12th Ave. btw 24th St. and 23rd St.

Chelsea

12th Ave. btw 22nd St. and 21st St.

100 Eleventh Avenue

12th Ave. btw 19th St. and 18th St.

IAC Building

12th Ave. btw 19th St. and 18th St.

High Line and Empire State Building

12th Ave. btw 17th St. and 16th St.

1 WTC

12th Ave. btw 16th St. and 15th St.

A Goose Among the Pilings

12th Ave. btw 15th St. and 14th St.

New Whitney Museum

12th Ave. btw 15th St. and 14th St.

Ruins

12th Ave. btw 14th St. and 13th St.

Man, it's nice out today!

West St. btw Gansevoort St. and Horatio St.

West Village

West St. btw Charles St. and 10th St.

Uguale Restaurant

West St. btw Charles St. and 10th St.

Hotel

West St. btw 10th St. and Christopher St.

Boardwalk

West St. btw Watts St. and Desbrosses St.

Another re-purposed pier

West St. btw N Moore St. and Harrison St.

1 WTC

West St. btw Barclay St. and Vesey St.

9/11 Memorial and 1 WTC base

West St. btw Vesey St. and Liberty St.

1 WTC

West St. btw Vesey St. and Liberty St.

Battery Park

West St. at Battery Place