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March 15, 2019 | Katharine Gates | Newsletter Articles

Lesser-Known Tales of the Old Croton Aqueduct: The Angel of the Waters

Photo: CentralPark.com While every New Yorker is familiar with the magnificent fountain at the center of Bethesda Terrace in Manhattan’s Central Park, few are aware of the fascinating story behind …

February 4, 2019 | FOCAAdmin | Newsletter Articles

A Tribute to Water System Guardians

In light of strengthened security for the New York City-Westchester water supply system following the September 11th attacks, we reprint here from our December 1998 issue the text and photograph of…

February 24, 2016 | DAlden | Newsletter Articles

New Year’s Resolution: Rid the Trail of Invasives!

In this 2013 I Love My Park Day photo, volunteers working in the northern section of the trail are pruning and pulling down porcelainberry vines that were obscuring an historic stone wall and overw…

March 18, 2013 | George O'Lear | Newsletter Articles

Head North Hikers! A Favorite Aqueduct Hike

The author, a veteran hike leader for the Appalachian Mountain Club and Westchester Trails Association, lives in Tarrytown. Two section maps for both the Westchester and New York City Aqueduct rout…

October 20, 2012 | Anne Megaro | Newsletter Articles

Broccoli on the OCA!

Five hundred feet off Yonkers Avenue on Walnut Street in Yonkers is a new community garden. And, yes, it’s part of the Old Croton Aqueduct (OCA)! At first sight, it doesn’t look like part of the tr…

June 22, 2012 | Katharine Gates | Newsletter Articles

Electronic Music Composer Inspired by Sounds of the Aqueduct Tunnel

Ever since the days of the Hudson River School, the landscape of the Rivertowns has inspired artists’ attempts to capture on canvas our unique golden Hudson River light or the classical drama of th…

January 11, 2011 | Charlotte Fahn | Newsletter Articles

The High Bridge’s Harlem River Fountain

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the 1848 completion of the High Bridge. With last year’s Earth Day announcement by Mayor Bloomberg that the city will fund the bridge’s restoration and reop…

January 8, 2011 | Christopher Tompkins | Newsletter Articles

The Long Shadow of the Croton – Part 2

This completes a two-part memoir of the author’s grandfather, John Matthew Tompkins (“Poppy”), longtime superintendent of the Croton Aqueduct gatehouse in Yorktown. Part one was in the Winter 2006/…

January 8, 2011 | Christopher Tompkins | Newsletter Articles

The Long Shadow of the Croton

I vividly recall the sound of rushing water, the sound of our steps echoing off the stone walls, and the winding staircase disappearing into the depths of the gatehouse. My grandfather held my hand…

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