Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about High Bridge Park

The Case for 24/7 Access to the High Bridge

By Ben Fried | Jun 22, 2015 | 18 Comments

Video of opening day on the High Bridge: Clarence Eckerson. New York City’s bike network would be a shell of its current self without the segments that run through parks. The most heavily traveled bike route in the city — the Hudson River Greenway — is in a park. Paths in Central Park, Prospect Park, and other public […]

Will Rodriguez and Brewer Reappoint CB 12 Crank Jim “Honey Child” Berlin?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer can remove a barrier to safer streets in Upper Manhattan by relieving Jim Berlin of his spot on Community Board 12, which covers Washington Heights and Inwood. As Stephen Miller reported Thursday, Berlin and fellow CB 12 member Anita Barberis voted against a DOT […]

Streetfilms: Turning NYC’s Oldest Bridge Into Its Newest Bike-Ped Amenity

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 30, 2009 | 8 Comments

At October’s Walk21 Conference, I got the chance to tour the High Bridge, a viaduct connecting Manhattan and the Bronx which has been closed to the public for nearly 40 years. Opening the High Bridge to pedestrians and cyclists has been a long-held goal for many New Yorkers. (I remember reading about this effort back […]

Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 19, 2007 | 43 Comments

This is a guest post by Susan Murray, author of the Urban Naturalist. The High Bridge, a graceful stone and steel bridge, reminiscent of the great Roman aqueducts, spans the Harlem River between parks in Washington Heights and the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Erected in 1848, decades before the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, it […]