To live alongside the beautiful Hudson River and stunning vistas to Manhattan with all it's wonderful happenings and light shadings is a constant enjoyment. The whole coast line however has now been built up, first there was one building (mine, good 40 years ago), than two, and now non-stop high-rises and gated communities — many of them beautiful and tasteful, some are not, and they are interspersed with shopping malls and movie houses and many many eating spots and bars, marinas. Everything is at your fingertips.
To reach any of these establishments one needs to take River Road, which once-upon-a-time was a little innocent road but has now in a frightful way developed into a highway (almost) with a constantly zooming traffic. Along River Road, on the other side, are the high and magnificently looming Palisades, tall and towering wooded cliffs — absolutely gorgeous.
Now imagine what I saw yesterday with Stefan — at the riverside tucked between a huge fancy shopping center and another huge apartment dwelling is a useless and gray looking, fenced in spot which cannot be built upon because the ground is contaminated and unsafe; it is a brownfield area due to the old factories which once stood there and supported this old port town Edgewater. With other words this is a fenced in no-man's land surrounded by all these new buildings and across from Manhattan.
And here I found them, these three deer, staring at me, standing in this unsafe environment, drinking from the water, picking from whatever is available. How did they get there? Did they come from the Palisades Cliffs, which are also built up a bit here and there, and did they cross the River Road to end up in this little piece of no-man's land not good enough for human beings but good enough for them? Sad.
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