On the opposite bank of the river, Superior Avenue climbs a hill past the Evergreen Cemetery at the top.
River or no river, 11th Avenue was a scary place when Bayview opened in 1974, said Wendy A. Featherstone, the prison superintendent, who has worked at the facility on and off since 1983.
HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, (914) 914-4550.
They were both situated along the river, which offered an avenue of escape.
Looking at images of the rushing rivers that are Avenue C and the F.D.R. Drive from this neighborhood's high (and largely dry) ground, feels a little like looking at photos of Mars.
STANDING in the turret of a hilltop castle, leaning with a sigh of bliss against a stone parapet, I took in the old part of the city: curving cobblestone alleys and avenues; a dark river that traced a slender crease between centuries-old buildings; handsome plazas with statues and fountains; a patchwork of red-tiled roofs.
He believes the new circle marked the processional avenue from the river Avon to Stonehenge.
He added: "We speculated in the past that there might have been something at the end of the avenue near the river.
A summer Sunday in an old Midwestern river town, walking down the avenue under the elms past yards burgeoning, with vinous and hedgy things and multicolored flowerage, the industry of each homeowner shown in the beauty offered to the passerby.
The following weeks will feature art exhibits, concerts, a fireworks display (April 1), a Japanese lantern-lighting ceremony (April 2), tea on the river, a parade down Constitution Avenue and a Japanese street festival (both on the 8th).
Cutting pathways through the mountains of central and western New York, these rivers became the state's avenues of commerce, serving first as the basis of the Erie Canal and later as the route of the New York Central Railroad and of the Governor Thomas E. Dewey (New York State) Thruway.
