Address: | 40.876106, -73.918971, 2400 Johnson Ave, The Bronx, NY 10463, USA |
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Postal code: | 10463 |
Phone: | (212) 854-1754 |
Website: | http://www.columbia.edu/ |
Monday: | Open 24 hours |
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Tuesday: | Open 24 hours |
Wednesday: | Open 24 hours |
Thursday: | Open 24 hours |
Friday: | Open 24 hours |
Saturday: | Open 24 hours |
Sunday: | Open 24 hours |
Great inspirational piece.
We used to swim there in the early 70s. We just called it The Rock and we walked to it from The Concourse to 225th St on Kingsbridge Rd. The water was pretty nasty but it was a lot of fun. We mostly jumped off the western side and it had local names for each jump-off spot, the leap, little Jazz, Diana, Capone’s chair, Big Jazz, low cables, high cables and the Hump which was the very top. Personally I preferred high cables over the hump because the hump was a blind jump so you didn’t see your landing spot until you were in the air and high cables was just a little lower. When the Circle Line came by we would wear our towels like Superman and jump for the tourists. If you try to swim across the channel make sure you don’t get run over by the Circle Line which really happened to us (very hairy). It was dangerous but at that age we thought we were invincible. What a place...
Great, especially for jumping into the Harlem River.
Its an amazing place; it was a nice view too.