Hudson Heights, Col Robert Magaw Place Between 181st and 183rd Streets

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We're looking at the end of Magaw Place. See the door all the way over on the right? Can you see it's open? Enlarge the photograph and dig out your magnifying glass. Okay, the next shot is of that door.




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It's not a door into the building, it's, it's, well let me just go inside and see what it is. This is sidewalk level, remember.





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I still don't know what it is, but I like it. The sign on the open door back there says No Exit, but that's not exactly true.






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Now, looking over the edge of the fence. The sidewalk level fence.


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Hudson Heights, Col Robert Magaw Place Between 181st and 183rd Streets

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Sorry I mentioned Gus' Pickles. I didn't go because it got too late. I know, I always say that. You probably have one or two issues, too.

So I went to Washington Heights instead. I'm pleased with this walk in a map sense. I walked the section of Broadway that parallels Bennett Avenue and since they're very close to each other, the streets that connect them, which I also walked, are little bitty, so it kind of looks like a ladder. See? Broadway is that long street there without a name. You're supposed to know.




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Although I went late afternoon (5 p.m.) when the light is supposed to be good, it wasn't. It was flat. The sky was white. So be it. This isn't a Woody Allen movie, this is real life.

But first, before Broadway, I got off the A train at 181st Street and walked up Col Robert Magaw Place (see map, other side of Bennett). Following are two shots from that quiet street.



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James Renner says Magaw was a Revolutionary War hero and that the street was named in his honor in the 1980's. Richard Rustin in a comment to that article begs to differ. He says it was Magaw Place in the 30's and he knows because he was there.



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