The ones I like best are along West 74th Street, facing the loading docks of Fairway supermarket.
They are anchored among the boulders that line the river from about West 115th Street north almost to the Fairway supermarket at 132nd Street.
A 52,000-square-foot Fairway supermarket, installed last May in a Civil War-era warehouse with rental apartments being prepared above, is yet another harbinger of change.
Now bordered by a parking lot for the Fairway supermarket, it is a popular fishing spot.
It has made an agreement to restore the route to serve a Fairway supermarket under construction and an Ikea store that is proposed for the waterfront.
When a new Fairway supermarket opened its big store in upper Manhattan, shoppers came from all over the area because of its bargain prices.
The next week I went to Steps on Broadway, a bustling dance center over the Fairway supermarket on West 74th Street.
The building, once a coffee warehouse, is about to become a Fairway supermarket, the borough's first and New York City's third.
The parking lot for the Fairway supermarket has replaced the entrance of the terminus.
Ikea is building a store on the east side of the Revere site and a Fairway supermarket is opening to the west.