Harlem Baseball

+ Gantries

Ebay has a great photo of a baseball team with the name “Harlem”.

It’s unclear if the team name refers to Harlem, New York, or another Harlem.

Gantries

Noticed those big yellow columns rising high above the Park Avenue Viaduct? It's the new gantry system for the Park Avenue Viaduct Replacement Project.

The gantry will lift old pieces of track to be carried away -- and then lower new pieces of track into place -- as the Metro-North Railroad works to replace the viaduct structure. Click here for an animation.

You may have already noticed the new concrete columns that have been installed along the viaduct from from East 115th to East 123rd streets. The new viaduct along this stretch, as well as later work between East 128th and East 132nd streets, will replace the brown steel with a concrete structure. Click here for a visual.

Built in 1893 to elevate trains from Grand Central Terminal high enough to cross the Harlem River, the 130-year old Park Avenue Viaduct now carries approximately 750 trains and hundreds of thousands of customers each weekdayAll Metro-North trains along the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines must travel the viaduct to get into Manhattan.

Gantry work will take place from Friday evenings through Monday mornings -- reducing the available Metro-North tracksfrom four to two each weekend, but keeping trains running.

Check the Metro-North project page for more details.

West 116th Street Community Association Meeting

W116CA will be meeting on Thursday, April 18th, 2024. Everyone who lives, works, shops, or is a friend of West 116th Street is invited.

Community Park Clean-up Day

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