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Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson left Bay Ridge to serve the Stars and Bars in the “War of Northern Aggression” while Tony Manero left it only to wind up in the 1983 disaster “Stayin’ Alive.” Bay Ridge is the ancestral home of your webmaster. My parents migrated to Brooklyn from Troy, NY in 1955, though my father [...]
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When your webmaster lived in Bay Ridge, before 1993, I would often wander Prospect Park’s paths and would delightfully discover its massive arches and small wooden bridges, and spans seemingly made of boulders. I never forgot them; and the internet gives me the opportunity to indulge my affection for… Manhattan’s Central Park isn’t about to [...]
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Visible remnants can still be found from a trolley line in Canarsie, Brooklyn, at which trolleys last clanged and rumbled way back in 1942. There’s a catch though–this was no regular trolley line, but it was in turn the last remnant of steam railroad service to Canarsie. On this 1938 Geographia map of Canarsie, the single [...]
Part 2: Reservoir North CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In Part Two, we’ll have a look at the arches and bridges from the Reservoir on north. Most arches are concentrated in the southwest and southeast stretches of the park, mainly because those were the most populated parts of the city in the 1850s and 1860s when [...]
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Before the days when the New York City Department of Transportation began to install replicas of classic bishop-crook, “Corvington” long-armed lamps and twinlamp designs, they defaced still-standing classic lampposts that were installed anywhere from 1892 to 1940 with bright sodium “bucket light” fixtures. They were put there in the early 1980s to replace incandescent bulbs in [...]
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