Finally, down the stairs, through the woods, and then – a view of the High Bridge and the Harlem River (the Google map here still shows the bridge under reconstruction):
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The blue-green steel structure is actually an insert, replacing the original Roman-like stone arches that blocked navigation up the river. (The alternative was to demolish the unneeded bridge.) Of the masonry arches, only one survives on the Manhattan side, ten on the Bronx side.
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