Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo
Photo: Francisco Collazo
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Riverside Park South isn’t really overlooked, but it’s just far enough beyond the daily path of the majority of New Yorkers that walking through sections of the park this weekend felt strangely solitary. We could hear the cars speeding by on the West Side Highway, but we couldn’t see them. The tall grasses and thistles going to seed made me think of rural South Carolina, where I grew up, but these were juxtaposed by Donald Trump’s persistently controversial condo complex overlooking the Hudson River.
Riverside Park South runs from 59th Street to 72nd Street on Manhattan’s West Side. For more information about the park, visit the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and to find out what’s going on in the city, check out our favorite local site, Newyorkology.
