excerpts. Go out and buy the book... " Maritta Dunn remembers, as a child in the 1950's, walking with her family to the Harlem Piers to watch ferries travel across the Hudson to Palisades Amusement Park. Although her family was not allowed into the amusement park because they were black a, they liked to go to the piers to watch people board the boats. " The Harlem Piers, once a bustling transportation center and recreation attraction at the western end of 125th Street, were demolished nearly 50 years ago. But after years of plans to revitalize the area, construction is under way on a new set of piers on the Harlem waterfront scheduled to be completed next spring. .... " Eliminating the parking lot, said Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner, will allow the bicycle and pedestrian paths to link the Harlem waterfront with other riverside parkland. 'It's a huge deal,' Mr. Benepe said. 'This is the big missing link in the Hudson River greenway on the West Side of Manhattan.' " The other gaps in the greenway are between 135th and 145th Streets, where a bike and pedestrian path will be completed by the end of May, and between 83rd and 91st Streets, where work on a bike and pedestrian path is scheduled to start this fall and be finished in 2008. a was this really the case at Palisades Amusement Park in the 1950s? I know it was mixed when I went there, which would have been early 1960s. Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded
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