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the northernmost tip of Manhattan
Hudson River and Spuyten Duyvil Bridge viewed from Inwood Hill Park; photo by Roger W. Smith
This photo of mine shows the northernmost end of Inwood Hill Park. with the Hudson River and Spuyten Duyvil Bridge (which connects Manhattan with the Bronx).
The author Theodore Dreiser briefly was employed on a work gang that was constructing the bridge. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, he took a job in 1903 on his older brother, Paul Dresser’s, recommendation as a day laborer on the New York Central Railroad for a dollar and a half a day.
Dreiser lived in the area for a while — in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, which is only a few blocks walk above Inwood (the northernmost neighborhood in Manhattan).
Dreiser had already published Sister Carrie, but it was not a commercial success.
Paul Dresser, a popular songwriter and man about town, had an in with the railroad boss. He was associated with the Tin Pan Alley firm Howley, Haviland & Company (also known as Howley & Dresser), which was located on East 20th Street. Paul died in 1906.
Spuyten Duyvil mill town (Kingsbridge Historical Society)
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2026
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
Van Cortlandt Park
242nd Street station, no 1 train … the last stop; exit on Broadway
photographs by Roger W. Smith
sunset, New York Harbor
photographs by Roger W. Smith
New York Harbor
photos by Roger W. Smith
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2026
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I love the harbor
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photographs by Roger W. Smith
NYC encourages conversation (a photo-essay)
New Yorkers
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
photographs by Roger W. Smith
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Gateway National Recreation Area, Lower Bay
Gateway National Recreation Area, Lower Bay
Staten Island
photographs by Roger W. Smith
— posted by Roger W. Smith
October 2025
the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
photograph by Roger W. Smith
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay (known as the Loewr Bay) and the Atlantic Ocean.
The bridge was named for the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1491-1528).
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2025
Roger Smith's New York 