It boasts pristine views of the Hudson River, superb landscaping (I'm saving those photos for another post....), beautiful walking paths, promenades scattered with benches and lovely expanses of grass for picnicking - all of which combine to make the park a place that has been referred to as one of the city's most beautiful outdoor pieces of art. (If you enlarge my last photo, you will notice that it is also a lovely "shidduch date spot" 
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Fort Tryon Park is absolutely gorgeous.
Ft. Tryon park is where I went walking with my parents as a child, running and biking with my friends as an adolescent, strolling with my wife, and now walking with my children as an (alleged) adult. It is a treasured location for me.
It was also supposed to be the place where I upgraded The Lovely Girlfriend to The Lovely Fiancee, but Mother Nature intervened (nearly ten years later, The Lovely Wife[tm] has started to consider forgiving me for proposing in the much less romantic setting of her grad school office... as C.S. Lewis noted, there's a good reason why people should never know "what might have been"...)
Re: the "shidduch date" line... If I were half as good at finding appropriate divrei torah as I were at finding appropriate webcomics (I loved this one so much that I actually bought the original artwork from the cartoonist. Wish I could find it, though :( )...
omg that last picture is great! The poor unsuspecting couple... ;-)
Beautiful pictures.
SD -
I assure you that before I posted the pic, I made double and triple sure that their features were completely unrecognizable....
G6- unrecognizable? Hello! How many guys do you know that actually wear HATS on DATES? ;-)
Ummmm...... lots and lots......(and lots)....
G6,
This is a serious question. I have considered going on dates in Fort Tryon but have never yet gone. How late can I take a girl there? Or in other words, when does it close or when does it get too empty that going there would be spooky?
Chaim -
The park doesn't close to my knowledge, but due to the fact that after dark it would become less traveled, I wonder whether it might not be so appropriate to take a date there.
This photo was taken in broad daylight. The only reason the couple is in silhouette is because they were backlit by the brilliant sun over the water.
Note to self: posting on three hours' sleep is never a good thing.
For those confused about what the heck I was talking about: I thought G6 was referring to the "shidduch date" between the flying critters and the flowers in the penultimate picture. Okay, so it probably still doesn't make sense... :/
efrex -
LOL!!!!
I was actually wondering what you comic had to do with those pictures.
I did manage to get some very beautiful pollination shots, but I was saving them for another time...
Go to sleep. Come back tomorrow. Comment again. We'll all feel better ;)
What beautiful photos, each one filled with wonderful textures and tones.
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