the wildlife of Orchard Beach

http://clocktowertenants.com/2013/07/picking-up-feces.html

J ust E mpty E very P ocket

Jeeps cost an arm and a leg.

island holiday

nice rack

Remember this beauty from 1937?

http://clocktowertenants.com/2011/05/where-pilgrims-landed.html

I returned and there she was, but turned around.

The lumber rack in the back makes it appear she’s been working.

But that flat tire makes me wonder.

equinox is Latin for “equal night”

There’s no better place in the Bronx 

to say goodbye to Summer

than City Island.

Tonight at 10:29pm the sun passes over the equator from north to south making day and night nearly the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodman's_Neck

they call this an improvement

113 year old traditions are not destroyed and hauled away lightly.

But that’s about to happen in the Bronx.

Since 1900--even before Teddy Roosevelt was in office--City Island visitors have been welcomed by this antique bridge, but all that’s about to change.

The test bores for new bridge foundations have been completed.

And the low bidder has been chosen, Tutor Perini, a California firm.

The CityIsland Councilman and Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. have both objected to this bridge project, and the locals are up in arms.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2011/11/no-man-is-island.html

But the $102.7 million price tag is the lowest of 11 bids and it is looking like the old bridge has no chance.

I think that’s sad. 

They could refurbish and reinforce that old bridge for a fraction of that cost, and retain City Island’s “old fishing village” flavor.

Instead, this will be the first cable-stayed bridge

 in New York State.

The designer says the “H” shape refers to sailing boats.

Perhaps.

It just looks like a huge, out-of-place Honda logo to me.

Better go cross that old bridge, if you have not. 

Another charming olde Bronx artifact will be lost,

 and very soon.