MAY 15, 2005 --

The immediate aftermath of The Day Before Friday the 13th Great Henry Hudson Parkway Wall Tumbledown
includes questions whether the incident, that thankfully caused no reported injuries, might have been prevented with swifter action.

LPR heard about the collapse late afternoon May 12, on leaving the second day of the Broadway Show League season and took these photographs May 13.

Henry Hudson Parkway is, at the evening rush hour heavily traveled on the northbound lanes. Most of the avalanche blocked the northbound access road leading from the bottom of 181st Street, just above the George Washington Bridge -- called Plaza Lafayette, which is a badly-rutted roadway.

The photos taken here show that most of the northbound lanes on the parkway cleared.

On LPR's first visit, it was able to get right up to the blockage on the northbound access road -- Riverside Drive, with a close photo of that valiant little red car that was visible in immediate news photo taken at some distance from the landlside.

Several hours, on a later visit, LPR was barred from getting more close-in photos. Still, these photos, speaking for themselves, offer some indication of the magnitude of the failure of the retaining wall.