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…
August 2001
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Street Lamps
HOW TO FRAME A CROOK. How the Department of Transportation defaced classic cast iron poles in the 1980s.
by Kevin WalshBefore 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…