Riverside Park Is Falling Apart

Photo: Justin Davidson In a city that’s always racing to patch itself up before it falls apart, parks are a good measure of success. Smashed benches, pitted asphalt, brown lawns, and rusty slides yell trouble even more clearly than tumbling rents and empty storefronts. The time, money, and labor it takes to reverse those signs of decline keep relentlessly compounding. There’s no V-shaped recovery for a park.

Yet in what should be the pride of the Parks Department, the state of deep decay is alarming and accelerating. Flagstones lie shattered. Orange traffic cones sit in sinkholes. Century-old staircases have crumbled into rubble. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, once the gem of the Upper West Side, has been fenced off and left to gracefully decompose. A dozen or so street lights always seem to be on the blink, casting mugger-friendly stretches of darkness on winter afternoons.

The long cliffside park was laid out in the 1870s, but train tracks and a strip of grimy industrial waterfront separated it from the river and filled the air with soot. In the 1930s, the city covered the tracks with bridges and draped the park on top. Merging infrastructure and landscape was visionary then, and now, in the era of climate change, it’s just as promising, but it does complicate maintenance. Age can be brutal for viaducts and tunnels, and also for the parks they hold up.

JDavidsonNYC A Call to Protect People and Nature! Thread to watch/read:

JDavidsonNYC This would be a good time for NYC to appeal to all those companies like Amazon and others that have made billions on the back of the pandemic to pay to restore the parks or at the very least, pay their share of taxes.

JDavidsonNYC The author may be correct about needed repairs, but ignores the major improvements made in the last 10 years. There are plenty of new fields, courts, and paths throughout the park that make this a great place to be

JDavidsonNYC Well maybe if NYCparks had more than .5% of the budget. Also, do a story on the East side's Bobby Wagner Walk, its honestly a hazard and deplorable. Retweet if we should be given a lane or two of the FDR until they fix it. Lol.

JDavidsonNYC I guess we need more Democrat, mid-night basketball leagues.

JDavidsonNYC Protect the oceans! Thread:

JDavidsonNYC 😞 ILoveNY

Is the promotion of renewables ecocide? Thread:

JDavidsonNYC LOL visit the East River Esplanade, then call me.

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