With New York’s long, snowy winter finally in our rearview mirrors, spring had just started to unfold at Riverside Park in Manhattan when I visited there with my friend, Joel, and our Nikon D90s on the third Saturday in April.
Few trees or flowers sported any bloom, but Little Leaguers competing on a diamond, speedy and slow skateboarders, and an American robin colorizing a still bud-less tree served as willing and unsuspecting subjects to photograph nonetheless.
A distinct feature of the park, at least where we shot at nearby Columbia University, is the precipice landscape, with its notable stone stairs that lead park-goers to and from Riverside Drive that overlooks the narrow green.
Frederick Law Olmstead, the architect of Central Park, designed this westside park that stretches four miles between Riverside Drive and the Hudson River, from 72nd to 158th streets.
