April 08, 2005: Little Red Lighthouse
There is a really nice path from 72nd Street to The George Washington Bridge via Riverside Park. Walkers beware: there are patches of the trail that are right next the the West Side Highway, and others that you are passing by some "interesting" indivuals. Overall, it's a great walk -- not a hike, as some books refer to it as -- to take on a bright day (now that we have them).
When you get to the GWB, you will learn (as I did), that there is a little red lighthouse, which was erected in Sandy Hook in 1880, dismantled in 1917, and reopened in its current spot in 1921. However, when the GWB opened in 1931, the brighter lights of the bridge made the lighthouse obsolete. As a result, in 1948, the Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse, and its lamp was extinguished. That same year, Hildegarde Swift and Lynd Ward wrote a children's book about it called The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge.
Superfluous history lesson over.
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