Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . the property line on the eastern bound-lead through the city. But its position over- ary of the park, leaving wide slopes of turflooking the broad Hudson gives it an added between the ways. Notwithstanding theseimportance and an individual character which devices to give variety to the plan of the roadare not repeated nor paralleled in any of the proper, one can hardly comprehend how sofamous avenues of the world. From Seventy- long a terrace can escape being unpleasantlysecond street to the hollow known in the old formal; but
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . the property line on the eastern bound-lead through the city. But its position over- ary of the park, leaving wide slopes of turflooking the broad Hudson gives it an added between the ways. Notwithstanding theseimportance and an individual character which devices to give variety to the plan of the roadare not repeated nor paralleled in any of the proper, one can hardly comprehend how sofamous avenues of the world. From Seventy- long a terrace can escape being unpleasantlysecond street to the hollow known in the old formal; but in this instance the constant changemaps as Marritje Davids Vly, at what is of level and direction excludes any impres-now One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, sion of sameness, and at times the upwardthe river banks are bold, rising steeply at one sweeping of the parapet curve produces apoint to the height of one hundred and fifty pleasant effect by its harmony with the sky-feet. Down at the river level lies Twelfth line of tree-tops beyond. Even now, before. RIVERSIDE DRIVE AT NINETY-SIXTH STREET, LOOKING NORTH. Avenue, while u]jon the high ground, eighthundred feet inland and parallel with the pier-line, Eleventh Avenue cuts its way squareacross the long series of side streets in accord-ance with the orthodox rectangular blocksystem, l^etween these two avenues, nowajjproaching one and now the other, windsRiverside Drive, followiiig mainly the browof the bluff, but rising and faUing at easygrades, curving about the bolder projections,and everywhere adapting its course so gra-ciously to the contour of the land, that itdoes not look to have l)een laboriously -laidout, but to have developed rather as a partof the natural order of things. The broadshelf against the .sloping bank formed by theassociated ways is su])j)orted on the lowerside by a massive retaining wall, at some pointsnearly forty feet in height, and this rises abovethe drive in a low, heavy pnrnpet which ex-tends
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