We're at the 79th Street Boat Basin, by the Hudson River. Behind us, New Jersey. Right in front, the boardwalk, the 79th Street Boat Basin Café, Riverside Drive and the Upper West Side.
The Boat Basin was founded in 1937 and is home to special events such as the Dragon Boat Competition and the New York City Triathlon. The New York City Department of Park & Recreation's webiste indicates that the marina "was designed by Robert Moses to be the "Recreational Boating Gateway to New York City." The Boat Basin is one of 11 marinas under the jurisdiction of Parks & Recreation. In total, Parks marinas, including the World's Fair Marina at Flushing Meadows- Corona Park, support 2,500 recreational boats each year."
At the 79th Street Boat Basin, the view's the thing—especially the view of the sun as it gorgeously sinks behind the Palisades every clear night. This is the Upper West Side's unofficial summer HQ, full of grill smoke from the café and dogs on leashes, babies in carriages, runners, bikers, roller bladers and all kind of people strolling on the boardwalk. There's even a number of boathouses in the marina. Could you see yourself living on a boat there?
8 comments:
I love the brown and gold colours on this photo. A life on boat.. I'd rather like to sail sometimes.
That looks like an intersting part of NYC.
hummm i always dreamed of living on a boat. But on this big harbour ...... I want to live and those big riverboats for sand and stone. And than maybe stay for a while in Rotterdam move to Antwerpen and then go to swiss... just dreaming..............
Nice image. I always forget there is more to NY than the parts the TV always show.
•sunkyoung: you picked the exact reasons why I love this one. The sun reflecting in the water and those golden tones. Ah summer... *sigh*
•blue wave: it is. Very relaxing. Nice views!
•don: it's good to dream. Maybe on a péniche in Paris. There's too much wave in that marina. I read somewhere it had a village feeling for its population. "village" as in "everybody knows about everybody else's business". That, I am not fond of...
•john: thank you. yes, yes, there is!!! :)I will try to reveal the good spots, as I discover them myself.
Nice post and photo, Eliane. I could see myself living in a boat almost everywhere (but the boat has to be a real houseboat, you know, like those you see in Amsterdam).
•fénix: Clever - less "rocky" than here. I also heard on a NPR podcast that residents would occasionally see a corpse floating by their window. Brrrrr...
OMG! >8O
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