Sledding on Snow Days in Fort Lee
Growing up in Fort Lee, where did you and your friends use to take your Red Flexible Flyers?
Fort Lee is a town, unlike any other Bergen County town, bifurcated by a bridge. Not just any bridge--the George Washington Bridge. Growing up in Fort Lee, your geography was defined by whether you lived north of the bridge or south of the bridge. It also defined where you played, strayed and misbehaved. For a small town, there were enclaves of even smaller communities--Coytesville, The Hollow, Lower Main Street...and many more. And each had their own place to go sledding. Growing up in Coytesville, east of Lemoine, the place to sled was Interstate Park, behind Fort Lee High School, known by my generation as Sunny Park. Back then, (did I really just say back then?) Sunny Park had an ice skating rink that was guarded (trust me, guard is the…
Joni
12:36 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
We always went sledding in the Linwood Apt complex - I remember a few sledders hitting the garages - OUCH! If there was enough snow we would start in Linwood, go down the side of Grandview Place, across "hippie Hill" (the last house on Grandview located in Englewood) onto Westview Place and end near the Polise's house. Now that was a run! more ›