{"id":10023,"date":"2016-08-13T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:03:02","slug":"high-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/high-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"high bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Back in June (yes, I\u2019m still on June pictures), I finally ventured up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Bridge_(New_York_City)\">high bridge<\/a>.  I had been meaning to wander up there ever since it had re-opened, but my earlier attempts last summer had all been hijacked by heat waves or rainy days.  <\/p>\n<p>The high bridge is actually the oldest bridge in New York City, originally built in 1848 as part of the Croton aqueduct system.  It connects upper manhattan and the bronx, and it fell into disrepair over the years, finally getting shut down over 40 years ago because it was considered too dangerous.  Partially inspired by the restoration\/renovation of the High Line in Manhattan, it was decided to bring it back from the dead, and it finally reopened last year to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>Given the absence of overabundant gardening, it is obviously a different aesthetic than the high line, but it does connect two parks at either end, and proves quite exquisite views.  Definitely worth at least one trip (on a day that\u2019s not too hot.  or rainy).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190082-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | approaching the entrance to high bridge park\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190082t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190084-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | the tower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190084t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190085-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view of the high bridge from the park\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190085t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190086-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | wide shot of the bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190086t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190087-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | the old yankee stadium motel. Yankee stadium isn\u2019t here anymore, so this is a relic.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190087t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190088-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | they don\u2019t mention this giant flight of stairs in any of the information about the bridge!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190088t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190089-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view from the bottom (finally!) of the stairs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190089t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190090-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view from the high bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190090t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190093-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | station house\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190093t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190096-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | high bridge. I forgot about my vertigo until just about\u2026here.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190096t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190098-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view from the bridge (and battling vertigo)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190098t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190099-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view from the bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190099t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190100-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view from the bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190100t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190101-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | station house (bronx side)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190101t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190103-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view of the tower from the bronx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190103t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190107-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | wide view of the tower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190107t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190110-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | view of manhattan from the bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190110t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190112-698x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | one more view of the tower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190112t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190116-930x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | memorial\/information seal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190116t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190117-930x698.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2016.08.13.highbridge]\" title=\"high bridge | discovery of the path to get to\/from the bridge without stairs!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P6190117t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June (yes, I\u2019m still on June pictures), I finally ventured up to the high bridge. I had been meaning to wander up there ever since it had re-opened, but my earlier attempts last summer had all been hijacked by heat waves or rainy days. The high bridge is actually the oldest bridge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,14,10],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-2BF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10064,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/10064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}