Thirteenth Avenue at 24th Street, March 1931, with coal yard at left and Baltimore & Ohio rail yard at right. Photo: New York City Municipal ArchivesAerial shot of 13th Avenue showing Miller Highway under construction & railroad warehouses and train yard, August 1932. Photo: Municipal Archives, City of New YorkWilhelm Reich, The Discovery of the Orgone: The Function of the Orgasm, 1948The sole remnant of 13th Avenue when it was used by the NYC Dept. of Sanitation, July 2011. Click here to see the roses that once grew alongside the perimeter. Click here to see a closer shot of the northern edge, when it was a pile field, and here to see a photo of the site taken from the Hudson River in 2016Gansevoort Peninsula / former 13th Ave. under constructionSouthern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula park, with David Hammons’ “Day’s End” at leftThe newly installed salt marsh on the northern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula Park, October 2023. Click here to see a view from 2011Thirteenth Avenue Promenade at Gansevoort Peninsula Park, looking south towards “Day’s End” and New York HarborThe beach at Gansevoort Peninsula Park, with the shadow of “Day’s End” cast along the sand
