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A Tour of High Bridge Tower: Notes of an Aqueduct Enthusiast

Article Author: 
Cornelia Cotton
Newsletter Issue: 
# 12, July 2002
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Reopening of the High Bridge Water Tower

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
10/28/2021 - 8:11am

Friends Board Members and Advisors Charlotte Fahn, Lesley Yu Walter, President Mavis Cain, Joanna Reisman and Sara Kelsey attended the grand reopening of the High Bridge Tower on October 27, 2021.

The tower had been sealed shut for years and sheathed in scaffolding for part of the time. Now that it's open, guided tours to the top will resume. The New York Daily News called it "a soaring 200-foot 1872 structure that was essential in New York’s rise to global stature."

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Tom Tarnowsky's lecture on video

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
10/27/2021 - 1:35pm

The Friends' own Tom Tarnowsky presented a lecture on Zoom for the Yonkers Public Library in association with The Yonkers Historical Society on the history of the Old Croton Aqueduct and its relation to Yonkers. Enjoy!

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Construction of the High Bridge

Author: 
TTarnowsky
Post date: 
10/27/2021 - 1:42pm

Tom Tarnowsky collected this series of photographs which show how the pipes that carried Croton Water were fitted into the High Bridge.

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New Historic Images of the OCA

Author: 
TTarnowsky
Post date: 
10/15/2021 - 8:44am

The Flickr site of the NYC Dept of Environmental Protection just posted these 2 images of the demolition of the aqueduct conduit in Central Park in 1931. These images show the original brick tunnel where it ended upon entering the Receiving Reservoir at approx West 85th St. The brick tunnel, showing a plastered inside surface here, continued to the southern division of the reservoir where it entered a gatehouse structure. When the water left the reservoir it continued downtown on 5th Ave.

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