West 238 Street
June 27, 2006 am30 4:04 am
This is W238 St, between Irwin and Waldo.
Turn off Broadway at the Riverdale Diner, and you come to a dead end.
But it’s only a dead end for cars.
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There are a total of 114 steps.
Plus a substantial central landing, with a few stairs to an apartment building, off to the side.
New York may not have as many spectacular public staircases functioning as pedestrian streets as San Francisco. But it has a lot. My pursuit of photographs of all of them may be a nice supplementary source of exercise.
So look for a page devoted to New York City staircases soon.
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JD2718 
Beautiful!
Wow, that one even looks like some of them in SF. I didn’t realize there were many (any?) here. Now that I think about it, there’s one in the Bronx that lets pedestrians take a shortcut from Webster Ave. up a hill – it’s near Claremont/170th St. I never thought of it as a street before.
Have a great trip!
There are a lot more…. I ‘ll work on the photo quality…. and on not getting them sideways… Honestly, I don’t know if I can do all of them… but I can try…. and the exercise and (fresh? Ha!) air are good for me..
That’s a little, almost forgotten, corner of my childhood! My family lived just west of the H. H. parkway and we used to walk down to Broadway to shop and catch the subway.
But rdt, did you walk back up? :)
if you pass the riverdale diner and keep walking along broadway towards 231st, you’ll see another one of these grand staircases nestled in between a bunch of stores. This one is on broadway.