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Ship Graveyard
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wrote 11 months ago: Coney Island Creek Ship Graveyard … more →
Rockaway Then and Now
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wrote 11 months ago: Mott Ave. and B22 St. Far Rockaway, NYC1940 2012 … more →
Inwood Hill Park and.....
wrote 1 year ago: …the only salt marsh left in Manhattan more pix and history to follow…… … more →
odds & ends; Battery Park
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wrote 1 year ago: Although it’s only 21 acres, Battery Park contains dozens of monuments and memorials, here are … more →
Art Deco Public Works
wrote 1 year ago: Bas-relief friezes on the Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant opened in 1939 … more →
Ft.Greene Park; almost Spring
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wrote 1 year ago: It may officially still be Winter, but don’t tell that to the flowers…. Ft.Greene Park w … more →
When Schools Mattered
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wrote 1 year ago: As superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1922, C.B.J Snyder designed close to 350 schools, … more →
odds & ends; The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
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wrote 1 year ago: Antonio Meucci, rarely mentioned in history books, is considered to be the true inventor of the tele … more →
Brooklyn Gothic; Wallabout
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wrote 1 year ago: The neighborhood of Wallabout was recently designated as a landmark district largely because it cont … more →
Riis Park off season
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wrote 1 year ago: A cold and windy day at the beach…. Constructed on the site of one of the first US naval air s … more →
throgs neck / edgewater park, Bronx
wrote 1 year ago: Where the East River and the Long Island Sound meet; the waterfront between the Whitestone and Throg … more →
Francis Lewis Park
wrote 1 year ago: continuing the tour of parks along the East River in north Queens Dutch farmers founded Whitestone i … more →
Powells Cove; Malba
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wrote 1 year ago: Malba is an upper middle-class neighborhood in the Whitestone section of Queens. The waterfront neig … more →
Crocheron Park
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wrote 1 year ago: From the pondup the stepsto the gazebos on the bluff across the footbridge over the Cross Island Pkw … more →
Far Rockaway; then and now
wrote 1 year ago: The Rockaways have transformed in the last 100 years from playground of the wealthy, to summer resor … more →
Transforming Coney Island
wrote 1 year ago: Only time for a quick stop, a hot dog from Nathan’s Famous and a brief look around…. sta … more →
newtown creek and grand st. bridge
wrote 1 year ago: The Newtown Creek has been one of the most polluted waterways in NYC for over 150 years. “Newt … more →
East River from Hellsgate Field
wrote 1 year ago: Mill Rock Island Mill Rock Island, originally two smaller islands, lies about 1,000 feet off the eas … more →
U.S. Customs House
wrote 1 year ago: The Beaux-Art Custom House was opened in 1907 designed by Cass Gilbert who went on to design another … more →
