Manhattan View Point

You are standing on the edge of the Palisades, a sheer wall of diabase rock that rises one hundred and eighty feet above the Hudson River. This vantage point provides a rare, unobstructed perspective of the Manhattan skyline that has been framed by these same cliffs for centuries. Long before the steel towers of the modern city rose across the water, the Lenape people observed these same rocks, which they poetically described in their language as trees made of stone. This elevation creates a natural balcony, offering a view that shifts dramatically with the movement of the sun and the changing lights of the metropolis across the river.