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City Walk #2 - Harlem: Take the A Train
2007-04-02 02:53:00 Armed with Alegra (for my blooming allergies) and an umbrella, I met Gina C., who wanted to join me on today's city walk. It was overcast with occasional drizzles as we walked from the intersection of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, where I once witnessed a random act of kindness that has since been dubbed "so New York." We speculated from block to block on how we could snag our own Harlem brownstones and then settled for splitting a white chocolate, macadamia and cherry cookie from Make My Cake bakery on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard before going our separate ways.Card No. 41Like the song says, you really do take the A train to Harlem.Begin at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue(A, B, C, or D train to 125th Street).Like the rest of New York, Harlem is made of up distinct neighborhoods with long histories. Its principal streets are West 125th Street, running east to west, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Lenox Avenue, or Malcolm X Boulevard, which runs north ... |
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