High Hopes for High Bridge
By Nadia Zonis |
October 11th, 2007 | Share This
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Print- Published in: New York Daily News
IT'S HIGH TIME: The city is restoring the historic High Bridge, which has been closed for nearly 40 years.
Lourdes Hernández Cordero works just blocks from Highbridge Park in Washington Heights, but never noticed the long-shuttered elegant 19th-century pedestrian bridge that gave the park its name.
When the Columbia University researcher first stumbled onto the High Bridge - which starts in the park and spans the Harlem River, connecting Washington Heights to the Bronx’s Highbridge neighborhood - she was stunned.
“It was like bumping into a treasure hidden in a big chest and dusting it off and saying, ‘Oh my God. I have to put this in a place of honor,’” she said.
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