The bluff has a storied history—for decades it served as free bleachers for anyone who wanted to watch New York’s baseball Giants play. But almost sixty years ago the city tore down the stadium and replaced it with the Polo Grounds Towers. Lerner Dreamer and Coogan’s Bluff themselves had a bit of a grudge match. Last summer he almost reached the top but ejected onto his crash pads because it was, he said, “too sketchy”—too full of loose stones—to climb onto.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter