#123 Down By The Hudson River

October 3rd, 2007.  Down by the Hudson River near the Boat Basin.

June 2011: Julie and I had just met. Before then I was rarely in this spot. It is a little north of the 72nd Street Pier which was the end of my morning run when I lived on 48th Street. Now, I push baby Zoe in her stroller past this spot at the weekends. We walk past the Boat Basin and out to the end of the very same pier. It is often windy out there. Sometimes I stop and sit on the benches with Zoe and watch
the walkers, runners and cyclists whizz past.

April 2025: This place means a lot to me today.  I don't run as often now (I was 43 then, 60 now) and when I do, it is often north from here along the river to where the car is parked at 125th.  Once in a while I do my "old" run, down to the end of the pier at 72nd Street and then under the Henry Hudson at 83rd past the playground that the kids once went to and back home again.  Just a couple of mile.

There are a couple of scenes from You've Got Mail shot down here by the Boat Basin where Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) and his Dad have the boats moored.  I mention the movie because there are so many scenes shot near our apartment.  The Starbucks in that movie is actually in our building.  I live above it.