Harlem River Drive Times Two

Harlem River Drive: Historic Overview.    Originally planned in the early 1930's as an extension of the East River (FDR) Drive, the Harlem River Drive was built atop the old Harlem River Speedway. The parkway features six 12-foot-wide lanes, long viaducts for grade separation, and landscaping between the parkway and the river.  



Flashback 1973-Bobbi Humphrey’s Harlem River Drive. (HarlemCondoLife.com, 8/15/2011)

The only other good song on this album was "Chicago, Damn".  This classic and future-forward jazz funk song (not to be confused with Eddie and Charlie Palmieri’s 70′s supergroup) appears on flute legend Bobbi Humphrey’s 1973 album “Blacks and Blues”. Ms Humphrey herself was from Texas but got her break at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur night at the urging of Dizzy Gillespie.