Inwood, 216th Street

Mary Sargent © 2006

The change of format signals the intent to add more writing. (Oh, no!) The group of photographs that I've been posting since Sunday were all taken on a couple of short blocks on the tip of Manhattan. Get out your street maps and take a look at 215th and 216th Streets as they end at the Harlem River. This is a desolate couple of blocks, storage for Sanitation trucks and MTA buses. The IND subway yard is to the south. No one would walk here unless they had a pretty damn good reason. My reason is that I'm involved in a compulsion, I mean goal, of walking every street in Manhattan. A pretty damn good reason. I was there in the late afternoon, no one else around, until I got to the end of 215th Street, where there was a group of kids playing. Quite the surprise. See Monday's posting. I got a number of other beautiful photographs, I believe, in that seemingly barren area, and I want to show you a few more before I move on. My sense of beauty may not be yours, however. Does anyone else think this photograph is beautiful? But you must click to enlarge before you make your judgment.

Inwood, East End of 216th Street

Mary Sargent © 2006