page_title: East River Greenway
section_title: East Harlem
hierarchical_section_title: East River Greenway / Components / East Harlem
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking northeast at sinkhole in the East River Greenway near 116th Street on a mostly sunny early afternoon
context_page_description: The East River Greenway is an approximately 9.44-mile-long foreshoreway for walking or cycling on the east side of the island of Manhattan on the East River. It is part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The largest portions are operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is separated from motor traffic, and many sections also separate pedestrians from cyclists. The greenway is parallel to the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive for a majority of its length.
  Parts of the greenway were built at different times. Most of the greenway was built in the 1930 to 1950s in conjunction with the nearby FDR Drive, with exceptions:
  Waterside Plaza: 1973
  East River Waterfront: Late 1990s
  Stuyvesant Cove: 2002
  United Nations portion: 2015–24
context_section_description: The East Harlem section runs from the Triborough Bridge ramp at 124th Street to the Gracie Mansion site at 90th Street. It contains four footbridges across the FDR Drive as well as a footbridge, the Wards Island Bridge, to Randalls and Wards Islands at 103rd Street. A connection to the Harlem River Greenway at 132nd Street is expected to be built between 2021 and 2024.
  Although the park is in East Harlem, where all residents have access to a pocket park, neighborhood park, or major park within one-quarter mile (0.4 km), amenities are limited in this section of the greenway. This decrepit portion of the East River Greenway has little open space and is poorly maintained; it also has no recreation facilities. As of 2019 the section between 107th and 114th Streets is closed off and construction is not expected to begin until 2021. NYC Parks had budgeted $25 million for renovations to this section of the esplanade.
  At 90th Street the Greenway rises to a walkway above the double-decker FDR Drive that resembles the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
caption: Section in East Harlem with a sinkhole
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