Because of the angle at West 125th Street at Riverside Drive, the corner intersects with 130th Street, and that is where the original train station in Manhattanville was located. The above 1870 print shows the Hudson River with a view of Broadway and 131st Street in the distance. The large red bricked building is the old Manhattan College in its prime years before its eventual demolition in 1926. As mentioned in a previous post, the small Victorian train station shown in the foreground also saw its demise in the early 1920's. The current photo shows the West Harlem Piers today, and the view is a bit more obstructed than the bucolic scene from over a century ago. Read more about this corner of Harlem, soon to be the home of the next MTA station on the West Side:
LINK. Click on top image to enlarge. Archival print courtesy NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses
Because of the angle at West 125th Street at Riverside Drive, the corner intersects with 130th Street, and that is where the original train station in Manhattanville was located. The above 1870 print shows the Hudson River with a view of Broadway and 131st Street in the distance. The large red bricked building is the old Manhattan College in its prime years before its eventual demolition in 1926. As mentioned in a previous post, the small Victorian train station shown in the foreground also saw its demise in the early 1920's. The current photo shows the West Harlem Piers today, and the view is a bit more obstructed than the bucolic scene from over a century ago. Read more about this corner of Harlem, soon to be the home of the next MTA station on the West Side: LINK. Click on top image to enlarge. Archival print courtesy NYPL. Current photo by Ulysses
Cursed by the city fathers who decided it was a good idea to rename "Manhattan Street" to 125th Street and create intersecting numbered streets in 1920!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for the MTA train station. It is a great idea - especially when water taxi comes to the Harlem Piers. It will be easier to get to midtown for commuters, etc.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of the Victorian era station pictured above, but the train station that was used in the early part of the 20th century, before the viaduct was built and the then NY Central tracks were raised, was the building on the corner of 135th street and 12th avenue. It is the wedge shaped building that now houses Tallay and Covo. If you look at the back of the building, its west side, you can clearly see the "platform" space where the trains would pull to the station.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how long the station was in use, but I have spoken to older people who remember having caught the train there, years ago.
John Dooley