Posted February 10, 201015 yr part two of a weekend trip to cold spring, ny. enjoy! part one link: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,22204.0.html smalltown density i didn’t catch all the plaque dates, but i think this one is about the oldest -- from 1700’s sunday morning! this beauty is g.k. warren and later emily warren roebling’s home metronorth station this is the old station, repurposed into a great tavern i saw this marker was in a little park next to the station pedestrian tunnel under the metronorth/amtrak tracks -- the railroad came in the 1850’s and severed main street from the hudson river developments. this line is still very, very busy today. night shots *** i hope you enjoyed a weekend metronorth trip up to cold spring, ny – i’d love to go back in the summer and explore some more, particularly the west point foundry ruins and the boscobel mansion (1808), which is closed in the winter *** bonus: hudson river facing views from the ride home on metronorth west point people move via rail along the eastside of the hudson river and freight along the westside bear mountain bridge south of cold spring technically the hudson is not really a river around here, because seawater is around it’s a tidal basin, until you get to the end of the commuter rail line at poughkeepsie around 75 miles north ahh the things I learned reading little tourist pamphlets on this trip – ha! :laugh: fairly new croton-harmon station TOD on the river tappan zee bridge more new TOD – there was a lot of new stuff around here – in yonkers i think almost home and the light is almost gone! these are a few harlem river bridges. yes this not a real river either, there are no rivers around nyc, it’s technically the world’s southernmost fjord. now you know (and yes now its time to throw the damn tourist pamphlets away – haha!) :roll: :wink: back at last and waiting on the bus at rainy union square – that’s all folks!
February 10, 201015 yr Love the Hudson Valley. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 11, 201015 yr Thanks! It's wonderful to see this. A good friend who lived in Manhattan used to tell about taking Metro North to Cold Spring for summer weekends; I think his boyfriend's family may have had a place there. I took Amtrak from Bryan, Ohio, to New York via Albany during a very cold winter in the late seventies. The ride across snow-covered upstate New York and down the Hudson was gorgeous; I think much of the Hudson was nearly frozen over until we got near the city.
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