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A detail from Watson’s New Map of New-York and Adjacent Cities. Published by Gaylord Watson, 16 Beekman St., 1874. Another detail showing the distributing reservoir at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue (where the New York Public Library is today) is below.
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The entire map is available online at David Rumsey . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on
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“No Overburnt Brick” An ad from the Real Estate Record and Builders’ Guide , July 6, 1889. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X
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Will’s Cigarettes card of the New Croton Dam. (ca. 1902-1917) Another card from the same company is here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
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Post card of the Introduction of the Croton Water float in the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration parade in New York City. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new
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Celebration Published March 27, 2012 February 17, 2013
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Nikko Inn (aka “The Japanese Tea House”) back in the early days when real estate developer Clifford B. Harmon was modestly advertising his new community as “HARMON, the New City on the Hudson—the most important and extensive suburban development in
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A beautiful vintage post card, circa 1910, of Quaker Bridge—one of the oldest bridges in Westchester County. When the county repaired the bridge a few years ago they implied that it would be the last repair job before the bridge would need to be
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replaced. We can’t let that happen. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in
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This promotional post card appears to show the Croton waterfront behind the Osborn boat, but there is no publisher or printer credit on the back. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share
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This post card shows the view from North Highland looking toward the Hudson River. The road and on the right looks like Brook Street, so the large grassy area is where the Municipal Building is today. This card was published by Frank L. Simone,
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Croton-on-Hudson and printed in Germany. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens
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This is a detail of the Croton area from the map The Route of the New Aqueduct from Central Park to Croton Dam . . . prepared by the Aqueduct Commission in 1884. The route of the new aqueduct tunnel is the dark straight line, running diagonally
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across the bottom from Croton Dam. One of the many interesting things about this map is that the New Croton Dam—then in the planning stages—is shown at the Quaker Bridge location. For more information on the Quaker Bridge Dam, see here . Another