It feels like it has been months since I have been on the Hudson north of 125th Street so I decided to rectify that today. My initial plan was to head up to Inwood and Inwood Hill Park but I realized that I did not have the time and so scaled back and went up to the 158th Street entrance to The Greenway. (click images to enlarge)

I started down the ramp and when I got to the bottom, I looked east

over the Amtrak right-of-way.

I then walked down to the river across the basketball courts and looked north.

It was a bright, mostly sunny day.

Then I pivoted and looked south.

Or was it an overcast day with high UV index?

I strolled south and then took a shot to the west to New Jersey.

As I mentioned in the post of June 9th, we were discussing Cartier-Bresson‘s Decisive Moment.

This was as close as I came today. The legs went in the air, the tugboat cleared the frame, the pigeon flew into the shot, and my finger pushed the shutter.

I continued south until I came to 125th Street where I took the 1 train. While waiting for it to arrive I looked NW back to the river and realized that I had the perfect shot to use as a tribute to Jade Doskow‘s Urban Utopias class that ends tomorrow.  I looked out over Qzymandias’ construction site (or is it Columbia University’s construction site?) I always get the two confused.