Sweet 116

Some time ago, I finally made the Ivy League. I was asked to do a Forgotten New York PowerPoint show and lecture, which turned out to be at Columbia’s Fayerweather Hall just off Amsterdam Ave. I then walked the length of 116th St/, which cuts across the Columbia campus, from river to river. 116th is singular among NYC’s major wide-numbered streets in that it’s interrupted twice, by the Columbia campus and Morningside Park.

Looking east on Riverside Dr. and W. 116th St., here’s New York City’s “original” Colosseum.