Riverside Drive starts around 72nd Street and keeps going up north into the Henry Hudson Parkway. The last exit on the parkway is Dyckman before it enters into the Bronx.1 Riverside Drive was developed as a scenic Parkway. The lead architect was Frederick Law Olmsted and based the idea on Central Park. A tree-lined driveway curving around the valleys and rock outcropping and overlooking the river. The drive was actually part of the construction of Riverside Park which started in 1872 and conclud