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Many of you may remember Tom Bird bringing up this topic at the First Member Meeting. I’ve been doing some research on Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park, and its early “people power” origins and I came up with a whole slew of articles on Tween Hill which could have been a high rise apartment building instead of a Forever Wild Park Sanctuary, as part of Shorefront Park. I believe that this may be the location of the Half Moon Overlook.
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Very few residents of Spuyten Duyvil know that Boss Tweed was a resident of Spuyten Duyvil, and that the ashes of his home are located right below this scenic view. Here’s a Riverdale Press article. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the second page on fultonhistory.com. So many fires occur around holidays (like that sad one that happened today on W. 231st Street); this one on Dec. 17, 1959
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