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Fort Washington Avenue or 181st Street contrasts sharply with the bucolic quiet promised by Fort Tryon Park and the tourists visiting the Cloisters. You want bridges, you have them big (the George Washington) and small (the Spuyten Duyvil). “The usual thing is to say we have a little of everything,” says Tommy Walsh during a recent tour, “but the fact is, we have a lot of everything, and it isn’t the same lot as you had 10 or 15 years ago.” |
Walsh would know. Although he now resides with his
wife and three daughters in Yorktown Heights, the PBA
delegate was born within the precinct 52 years ago and has
seen most of the urban changes personally. “The one thing
that maybe hasn’t changed that much and that maybe gives
me a foot up on other cops is the buildings and the parks,”
he says. “With the big apartment houses I know where
alleys are going to snake through other alleys before coming out into side streets and I know where the park fences can be
jumped more easily than in other places. I think that probably |
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