Dog walking

Roosevelt, like so many other dogs I see on these walks, seems to dread these riverfront walks more than the usual sidewalk trek around the neighborhood. On this walk I actually, for the only time ever, had to pull a splinter from his paw. He was hating the railroad ties skipping.

But alas there is a wonderful open lawn at 43rd Street. The problem is it is privately owned by Buncher...and maybe part of the grand property swap proposals of the Vision...to become a riverfront residential commmunity.

A shorter term option to providing grassy open space for dog paws is the small fill area betwen the tracks and the River below the 40th Street Bridge. This was part of the riverine environment between Wainwright's Island and Lawrenceville. The title search on the property will test someone's patience if there is an ownership dispute over the site's use for a public dog walk park.