A walk down 181st Street in Manhattan.
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181st street is one of the main cross-streets in Washington Heights. It has a wide variety of stores catering to the area residents. Many of the stores specialize in serving the local jewish, Russian, or Dominican populations.
Looking up 181st Street from Broadway we see Joseph's shoes and Grunebaums bakery. These are local institutions, and have been in the neighborhood for many, many decades.
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| View up 181st Street. |
At the corner of 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue is the Hilltop Restaurant. The Hilltop is a lunchonette like Tom's Restaurant (from Seinfield) down by Columbia, but without the tourists and yuppies. I'll admit that Tom's is probably more trendy. The Smart Choice deli caters to the local Russian immigrints. The have good German-style wurst and salami.
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The Hilltop Restaurant at the corner of 181st St and Fort Washington Ave. |
The Smart Choice Russian deli. |
Pinehurst St. becomes a stairway at 181st Street since the hill becomes too steep for automobile traffic. If you climb the stairway, and continue up the street for about 1 1/2 blocks, you come to the highest natural point in Manhattan, in Bennett Park. The hilliness of the west end of 181st street is evident in the photo on the right.
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| The Pinehurst stairway on 181st St. | A view eastward up 181st St. |