Beside the park stairs that rise from Kingsbridge to Riverdale are between 12 and 20 fish (I didn't make an exact count; a few are partially buried by soil runoff).
The fish, cast in metal from slightly varying molds, are poised as if swimming upstream toward a spawning ground. I imagine they were added when the 1915 staircase was rebuilt in 2000; can anyone provide more details, or for that matter, identify the species?
The fish of Ewen Park
Alongside the 231st St. staircase between Riverdale and Johnson avenues, Bronx
Looks like a pike, pickerel, or gar. Something in that family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(fish)
Posted by: GD | May 03, 2009 at 05:22 AM
Pike was my first thought, going only on looks, but I'd never associated them with this part of the country. If the sculptures were cast for the original (1915) stairs, perhaps the fish were more familiar to New Yorkers of a century ago.
Posted by: Dave Cook | May 03, 2009 at 10:14 AM