#181st Street

[anabellikescats]

I have returned to Canada from my trip to NYC and i went to TARGET.

they had my favorite cereal that was recalled in Canada like two years ago. i am so excited.

I saw Hadestown, Jordan Fisher was awesome. I loved it.

I went to a comic store, midtown comics, i got a bunch of young justice comics, it was great.

i took the A train to 181st street and went to the in the heights bookstore. in the heights is my all time favorite musical so it was amazing. i bought the sheet music for in the heights.

i got a signed edition of 'i kissed shara wheeler' from barnes and noble.

we watched the devil wears prada on a very glitchy cable tv channel

all in all, 9/10

[wanderingnewyork]

A passageway in the #181st_Street_Station on the A line, #Manhattan.

[solarbird]

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.4 – dated 30 August 2024 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.4, the much larger pasteup of Greater Northshore, City of Seattle, 2 Line Eastside Bike Connector, and a little bit of King County Regional Trails that gets us all the way to the south end of Lake Washington.

New in this release:

New data type: 1 Line Link Light Rail stations are now mapped, both on Greater Northshore and the MEGAMAP! They allow bikes onboard, so count as bike infrastructure. (Note that all 1 Line stations north of Seattle proper open on August 30th, not before.)

Added several street names, particularly around 1 Line rail stations, for better wayfinding

Cleaned up other street names where bike infrastructure overlaid KCGIS labels

Upgraded block connection on 68th between Bothell Way and NE 181st/Remington in Kenmore to Sharrow after upgraded street painting

“Very Bumpy” advisory removed from Shoreline Interurban Trailhead due to repaving, thank you wildjo on Github for the contribution

Re-added very short trail exit from Shoreline Interurban Trailhead that got lost somehow in a previous map revision

Added two more short starter sections of what will become the “Trail Along the Rail” in Shoreline, and adjusted exact ending point of the largest section already on the map, thank you https://social.ridetrans.it/@bobco85 on Mastodon for the contribution

Here’s today’s Seattle Times article about the new stations, too. First train leaves Lynnwood at 5am.

See you at the opening!

ps: my patreon, if you feel like throwing some change at the jar. I mean, I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. ^_^

[keithgoldstein]

W. 181st Street

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[utilitycaster]

This scene is actually taking place in the 181st street A train station

[beardedmrbean]

A group of teenagers was caught on video brutally attacking a 15-year-old autistic boy on a subway platform in New York City.

The incident was reported Friday around 5:30 p.m. inside the West 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue subway station in Washington Heights, according to FOX 5.

Investigators say the boy was approached by three individuals before being pulled from a northbound A train onto the platform and called anti-Black slurs, making the attack a possible hate crime.

The unsettling viral video shows the group taking turns repeatedly punching and kicking the teen while at least one onlooker recorded what was happening on their cellphone. No one is seen in the video intervening to help the teen who was being ganged up on. 

The victim has not been identified and reportedly left with a cut to his lip and bruises on his body. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition, police said. 

New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force was notified of the incident. So far, there are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.

Community members gathered outside the subway station where the attack happened to rally against bullying and racism Tuesday afternoon, and said the victim is part of a group known as the "Transit Kids" – kids with developmental disabilities who love to ride the trains.

It is unclear what led to the attack, but anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Literary NYC: A Stone Book Reader in Washington Heights!

This creature, one of several that are either called “gargoyles” or “architectural grotesques,” depending on which source you’re using, can be found on the outside of an apartment building on the corner of W 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue. Just find the corner that has the Hudson View Restaurant … and then LOOK UP:

You can learn more about the history of this building, known as the Nathan Hale Apartments, back when it looked even fancier, in the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections!

[dirtcola]

We already talked about 191st Street, but here are some other cursed subway stations that get honorable mentions:

181st Street (1) - Only one stop down from 191, I've seen people shooting smack into their necks in the stairwell at rush hour at this station. It's elevator-only to exit, but I consider it slightly better than 191 because it's less isolated/eerie, and at the very least there is no Tunnel of Doom and a giant fuck-off hill to walk up.

53rd Street/Lexington Ave (E, M, 6) - If you want to transfer from the E/M to the 6, SO MANY STAIRS HOLY SHIT and your only other option is a rickety escalator (which may or not be in service).

4th Ave/9th Street (R, F, G) - Not especially dangerous, but the R is very deep underground and the F/G are very high above ground, so if you're making the transfer from the R you gotta climb up like 5-6 stories and it's killer.

125th Street/Lexington Ave (4, 5, 6) - Truly one of the wildest stations. Super grimy, grungy, and filled with people of questionable intent. There's always something crazy going on here, and it's never good.

34th Street Hudson Yards - This shiny new station has an escalator that is so steep that riding it gives me vertigo, and I'm not normally someone who struggles with that!

[chinese-ny-real-estate]

大纽约社区介绍之University Heights, the Bronx

大学高地(University Heights)位于布朗克斯西北部，是一块面积不大、有些地方还很邋遢的飞地。布朗克斯社区大学(Bronx Community College)占地45英亩，校园横跨悬崖峭壁，视野开阔，对社区的影响举足轻重。

这不是一所典型的通勤学校。该学院最著名的建筑由斯坦福-怀特(Stanford White)设计，2012年，学院大部分建筑被评为国家历史地标。

1973年，这个拥有约3万人口的社区并不景气。纽约大学(NYU)在19世纪末建立了这所校园，作为其格林威治村(Greenwich Village)以外的乡村校区，随着犯罪率的上升和入学率的下降，纽约大学以约6200万美元的价格将学校卖给了州政府。

据史料记载，随着有宿舍的大学被学生每晚回家的学院所取代，一个艰难的过渡时期随之而来。West 183rd Street和Loring Place North等曾经是学生和教师居住的街道变得空旷破败。

但学院的管理者和居民们认为，这所在20世纪80年代斥资数百万翻新校外建筑的学校就像一条马奇诺防线(Maginot Line)，阻止了南布朗克斯的凋敝。

如今，隶属于纽约城市大学(City University of New York)的布朗克斯社区大学拥有约11000名学生和1600名教师，校门有保安人员看守，校园周围有巡逻车巡逻；2012年，由Robert A.M. Stern Architects设计的新北楼和图书馆落成剪彩。目前，学校还在翻修主广场。

6岁的盖尔-道森(Gail Dawson)说："这个地区唯一真正稳定的好东西就是大学"。1978年，她从哈林区(Harlem)的一个公共住宅区搬到了这个社区，为的是给孩子们提供一个更安全的成长环境。当时，和现在一样，身患残疾的道森女士住在一套一居室的公寓里，房租由联邦住房券支付。

她说，虽然该地区的一些城市公园已经荒废，但学院却更注重其外观。"我喜欢这里的树，"她说。"这里很漂亮"。

大学高地给人的感觉是静态的。伟大美国人名人堂(Hall of Fame for Great Americans)是一个露天校园，收藏了约100尊半身铜像，包括艺术家、发明家和总统，其中最近期的人物莫过于富兰克林-德拉诺-罗斯福(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)。

但变化正在迫近。

该市正在考虑重新划分Jerome Avenue两英里的区域，以建造更多经济适用房、公园和商店。目前，车库、轮胎店和其他汽车行业占据了这条街道。

一些长期经营的企业主对此表示担忧，比如43岁的佩德罗-蒙西翁(Pedro Moncion)，他在West 181st Street拥有一家San Rafael Auto Repair修车厂。蒙西翁先生说，将该街道重新划分为禁止工业用途可能会导致他已经经营了28年的生意终结。

此外，曾经住在附近希望山(Mount Hope)的蒙西翁先生说，在附近的许多街道上，购买杂货、衣服和电子产品的地方已经比比皆是。他说："我不知道我们还能想要什么"。

大学高地坐落在一座小山上，从这里可以俯瞰曼哈顿和新泽西州的帕利塞德悬崖(Palisades cliffs)。大学高地的北面是West Fordham Road，南面是West Burnside Avenue，东面是Jerome Avenue，西面是哈林河(Harlem River)。根据2010年的人口普查数据，94%的家庭居住在出租房中，而整个城市的这一比例为69%。根据经纪人的说法，这些出租单元中的许多都被预留给第8条(Section 8)补贴住房，或者被安排成单人间(single-room-occupancy)。

市价单位确实存在，比如位于Sedgwick Avenue的River Hill Gardens，这是一座由Goldfarb Properties拥有的五栋砖砌综合楼。校园北面还建有优雅的七层砖砌公寓楼，其中一些是装饰艺术时期的产物。

经纪人说，总的来说，University Avenue(也称Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard)以西的公寓楼最古老，也最时尚。

除此之外，���有零星的砖砌独户住宅，如West 179th Street的独户住宅，它们面对的是带前院的半独立式住宅。少数共管公寓包括位于Grand Avenue和Davidson Avenue的一些公寓。但有些共管公寓受到住房发展基金公司(Housing Development Fund Corporation)的限制，根据该公司的规定，购房者的收入不能超过上限。

市场价房产可能很难找到。据Meridian Realty Partners的副经纪人Jackson Strong称，如果有房，700平方英尺左右的市价一居室共管公寓平均售价为9万美元，两居室为14万美元。

Strong先生说，独户住宅的价格约为30万美元，而两户住宅可能高达45万美元。

StreetEasy提供的数据显示，截至今年8月31日，所有住房的平均销售价格为13.5万美元。2014年的平均销售价格为13.7万美元，2013年为15.9万美元。根据StreetEasy的数据，今年截至8月，一居室公寓的平均租金为1270美元，2014年为1230美元，2013年为1150美元。

Strong先生说："我们正在吸引那些被纽约市其他地区拒之门外的人，甚至是布朗克斯的其他地区"。

由于大多数学生都住在别处，大学城的夜生活很少。位于Aqueduct Avenue East和West 181st Street的BX Campus Deli熟食店似乎是少数几家承认自己存在的商家之一。

在West Fordham Road上，有一家Dallas BBQ烧烤店在周末举办D.J.派对。在West Burnside Avenue上，有一些小店出售水果、美容用品和眼镜。

Aqueduct Walk沿着老克罗顿水渠(Old Croton Aqueduct)的顶端延伸，从19世纪40年代到50年代，这条水渠一直将饮用水从威彻斯特县(Westchester County)输送到这座城市。如果想重温美国历史，布朗克斯社区大学的名人堂也许值得一去。10月18日，布朗克斯社区大学将参加全市范围的"纽约开放日"(Open House New York)活动，届时还将参观由马塞尔-布劳尔(Marcel Breuer)设计的粗野主义(Brutalist)风格建筑。

该地区划入了几所小学，包括Andrews Avenue上的Public School 291、Sedgwick Avenue上的Public School 226和Jerome Avenue上的Public School 33。这三所学校都教授幼儿园到五年级的课程；P.S. 226和P.S. 33还设有学前班。

根据该市的统计数据，在2013-14学年的州考试中，P.S. 291的成绩略好于其他两所学校，当时有18%的学生英语达标，31%的学生数学达标。全市的这两个数字���别为30%和39%。

公立中学有Creston Academy、East Fordham Academy for the Arts和Academy for Personal Leadership and Excellence可供选择，这些学校都在社区外。

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary School是一所教会学校，位于Andrews Avenue North，学制为幼儿园至八年级。

大都会北方铁路(Metro-North Railroad)的哈德逊线(Hudson Line)在大学高地有一站。到大中央车站(Grand Central Terminal)的车程为21至24分钟，月票价格为201美元。

4号线地铁沿Jerome Avenue停靠Burnside Avenue、183rd Street和Fordham Road。

在纽约大学落户之前，校园所在区域有几处庄园，其中一处属于马里(Mali)家族，该家族生产台球毡和其他台球产品。他们的砖房最初成为宿舍，如今是巴特勒厅(Butler Hall)，为高中生上大学做准备。

转载自 New York Times, University Heights, the Bronx: Anchored by a College Campus

[jellogram]

You know that post that's like "New Yorkers giving directions be like go ten blocks up west 181st street and then go talk to Tony" or whatever. The Californian equivalent of that is with freeways. There was a point where the directions from my house to my workplace was "Take the 805 then keep left to stay on the 5 then merge onto the 163 then get back on the 5 for one exit and then get off." It was a fifteen minute drive.

[nebris]

A plan to cover a river's front with docks, parks and tracks in 1911 would not be realized until the 1930s

We present a bird's eye view showing the salient features of this proposed West Side improvement. At an average distance of 200 feet out from the present shore line, a riprap wall will be built, and the intervening space filled in with suitable material.

Adjacent to the present tracks of the New York Central Railroad, space will be reserved for two additional tracks, to be built by the company when the increased traffic of the future calls for them.

Then, in, their turn, will be constructed three municipal freight tracks, a broad loading and unloading platform, a driveway for vehicles, a wide platform for receiving river and ocean freight, and, finally, along the dock front will be a pair of tracks for the use of freight unloaded from or to be delivered to steamships. The whole of this area, up to the edge of the steamship loading and unloading platform, will be covered by a massive steel and concrete roof, and upon this will be laid a covering of earth of sufficient depth to meet the requirements of a park, and support a growth of turf, shrubbery and trees.

The park, as thus formed, will be laid out with walks and windings paths to conform to the pathways existing on the slopes of Riverside Park. Large openings will be provided at intervals for lighting and ventilating the covered-in tracks and roadways, and in that portion of the new park which is opposite Columbia College a stadium will be laid out for the use of the university.

It is the expectation of the commissioners that practically all of the rock required for the riprap, and one-sixth of the earth necessary for filling purposes, will be obtained from the excavations of the proposed Lexington Avenue-Broadway subway.

The remaining material, about one million cubic yards, can be obtained from selected materials, such as clean ashes, of the street cleaning department, and from the various excavations for buildings in the district bordering on the proposed work.

Scientific American article excerpt and colorized illustration, May 6, 1911

It wasn't until the 30's that the West Side improvement really took off, driven by "the man who got things done," Robert Moses.

Moses's biographer Robert Caro described Moses surveying the area prior to his project, and seeing a wasteland six miles long, stretching from where he stood all the way north to 181st street. "The 'park' was nothing but a vast low-lying mass of dirt and mud. Unpainted, rusting, jagged wire fences along the tracks barred the city from its waterfront.

"The engines that pulled trains along the tracks burned coal or oil; from their smokestacks a dense black smog rose toward the apartment houses, coating windowsills with grit. A stench seemed to hang over Riverside Drive endlessly after each passage of a train carrying south to the slaughterhouses in downtown Manhattan carload after carload of cattle and pigs."

Once, Frances Perkins heard Moses exclaim, "Isn't this a temptation to you? Couldn't this waterfront be the most beautiful thing in the world?"

Moses's updated "West Side Improvement" plan, designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, Michael Rapuano, and Clinton Loyd, retained the railroad tunnel under the park, but moved the parkway to the shorefront instead; this would become the Henry Hudson Parkway.

As part of the project, the parkway was to connect with the West Side Elevated Highway at the south end of Riverside Park, while the railroad would connect to the High Line viaduct even further south. The parkway was to be built on newly filled land along the shore, requiring the extension of the shoreline by 50 feet and the dumping of 1 million cubic yards of fill. This resulted in a more contiguous park area, since the roof of the tunnel would then be occupied by parkland.

Moses's plan was also more actively focused toward recreation: his plan called for playgrounds, tennis courts, wading and swimming pools, an amphitheater, and docks at 79th and 96th Streets. The roof of the railroad tunnel would host several of these recreation fields, while other parts of the tunnel's roof would be used by a promenade. The cost as submitted to the New York City Board of Estimate was $11 million (equivalent to $215 million in 2021), of which $6 million would go toward the railroad tunnel alone (equivalent to $117 million in 2021).

By mid-1934, Moses was ready to employ about 4,000 workers through the Works Progress Administration. Filling operations were underway by early 1935, requiring the dumping of 4,000 cubic yards of dirt per day.

The parkway in Riverside Park was approved in June 1935, and was completed in 1937. In addition, plans for a new boat basin at 149th Street were announced in 1939. The West Side Improvement project was completed by 1941. The project was twice as big as the Hoover Dam's construction. In total, the project plan added 132 acres to the park. Ultimately eight full playgrounds were built, as well as baseball fields and tennis, handball, and basketball courts. Having achieved its goal of rebuilding Riverside Park, the Women's League disbanded in 1937. Wikipedia article

Google earth aerial view of the Westside improvement in 2023

[wanderingnewyork]

The #181st_Street_Station on the A line, #Manhattan.

[brattyteenager]

I've been shitting on nyc since the day i moved. Probably a sign. But it's just like... downtown nyc is hellish. I can't see another graphic designer walking their pitmix in a full fit at 10am anymore. Below 14th street is the single most racially and ideologically homogenous place i've personally ever lived. Every area of the city where "creatives", ie millenials with no creative abilities, live is literally just a mall full of dogs. The whole place is giving mid sized city circa 2015 edison bulbs and all! Also the people are fake asf even if they're not clout chasers they're just like... shells. Everyone is such a shell of themselves putting on their personal brand before they leave the house. I'm moving up to 181st if i don't leave. Maybe i had a fantasy of nyc before i moved but honestly the biggest turn off is the people. People are so fake and so flaky and so ruthlessly conformist and addicted to how other people perceive them, as someone with no cohesive vibe it just seems like you have to have a brand or you drown. I moved to make theatre, so maybe i'll stay for that alone, but lifestyle wise it's just not for me

[keithgoldstein]

W. 181st Street

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[beccaplaying]

181st street escalators are back, after almost a year 🙌🏼 Now if you could please have trains running here on the weekends, that would be great.

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

In honor of In the Heights, here are some major landmarks and hidden gems in the Washington Heights neighborhood!