Month: March 2007
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A Creek Runs Through It
Gowanus Lounge has been all over the Roebling Oil field of late1. One thing that intrigued me about the appearance of (purported) toxins ickiness at this site and across the street at the apartment building on the northwest corner or Roebling and North 11th2 was the fact that neither site appeared to have been home…
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Tidal strait, dammit!
amNY has a decent summary of the emerging East River renaissance. But they are quick to show their geographical and cinematic ignorance: the East River is not a brackish strait, and its Elia Kazan. Still, worth a read.
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Williamsburg Amusements
It may not have been New York’s first amusement park, but Williamsburg certainly was a vacationland for New York’s well-to-do. Way back in the day, Williamsburg was a vacation spot, complete with county estates on the waterfront. If you look at this map from the (always useful) Brooklyn Genealogy site, you’ll notice that the blocks…