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When Schools Mattered
As superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1922, C.B.J Snyder designed close to 350 schools, plus numerous additions and other school improvements. Snyder put up 5, 10, sometimes 15 buildings a year, ranging from giants like Erasmus, Curtis and … Continue reading
odds & ends; The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Antonio Meucci, rarely mentioned in history books, is considered to be the true inventor of the telephone. Meucci filed for a preliminary patent application for his ”teletrofono” in 1871 but was hampered by a lack of funds and command of the … Continue reading
Brooklyn Gothic; Wallabout
The neighborhood of Wallabout was recently designated as a landmark district largely because it contains one of the greatest concentration of remaining pre-Civil War wood-frame houses in NYC. Amongst the well maintained houses on Vanderbilt Avenue, just south of the … Continue reading
odds & ends; Elevated Acre
various spots photographed over the past months…… “Rogers Marvel Architects won an international open competition to transform this one-acre elevated plaza in New York’s financial district. The project turns a barren, windswept hard deck into a vibrant, multi-programmed, accessible public … Continue reading
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Tagged downtown, elevated acre, fdr, financial district, landscape design, NYC, police museum, urban garden, urban photography
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Riis Park off season
A cold and windy day at the beach…. Constructed on the site of one of the first US naval air stations, the park was designed in 1936 by Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who envisioned Riis Park as a beach for … Continue reading
throgs neck / edgewater park, Bronx
Where the East River and the Long Island Sound meet; the waterfront between the Whitestone and Throgs Neck bridges private docks and the Throgs Neck Bridge barges in the river and Whitestone, Queens in the background the Whitestone Bridge … Continue reading
Francis Lewis Park
continuing the tour of parks along the East River in north Queens Dutch farmers founded Whitestone in 1645, naming the area for a large white boulder along the shore. The park honors Francis Lewis a member of the Continental Congress … Continue reading
Powells Cove; Malba
Malba is an upper middle-class neighborhood in the Whitestone section of Queens. The waterfront neighborhood is home to some of the largest and most expensive private houses in New York City. Its name is derived from the first letters of … Continue reading
Powells Cove; College Point
Powell’s Cove Park was completed in 1999 on an East River bay with sizable wetlands and filled uplands. The Queens neighborhood of College Point borders on the west and Malba borders on the east. The first known European resident … Continue reading
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Tagged bronx-whitestone bridge, College Point, malba, marshland, NYC, powells cove, queens, waterfront park, whitestone
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