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| king_memoir_1843_raw.txt | 217 | 172,824 | |
| hudson_river_source_raw.txt | 191 | 152,169 | |
| croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt | 134 | 106,888 | |
| illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt | 66 | 52,703 | |
| croton_waterworks_raw.txt | 60 | 47,579 | |
| comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt | 58 | 46,131 | |
| old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt | 50 | 39,768 | |
| croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt | 23 | 18,214 | |
| housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt | 21 | 16,692 | |
| croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt | 14 | 11,057 | |
| comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt | 5 | 3,670 | |
| housing_proposals_2024_raw.txt | 3 | 1,831 | |
| coastal_zone_waterfront_raw.txt | 1 | 246 |
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revenue should be derived. But to the poor, and those who would be content to receive it from the hydrants at the corners and on the sidewalks, it should be as free as air, as a means of cleanliness, nourishment and health. In the hands of any other …
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Canal Street. Between 1820 and 1850, the population density had intensified from 157 persons per block to 272 per block (those figures would pale compared to the terrible overcrowding of the late 19th centu- ry), and those people were using the same …
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Progress (New York: The A. S. Barnes Co., 1896 [1877]), p.747. 20. Francis, p.70. 21. Greene, pp.185-7. 22. Rosenwaike, p.37; Duffy, Appendix I. 23. Oliver E. Allen, New York, New York: A History of the World's Most Exhilarating and Challenging City …
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but successive drilling was less promising. Finally when mineral water was brought up from one of the wells, the Disbrow scheme went the way of all the others. By then, at the end of the 1820s, the City's fire department was adding its support to the…
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the Legislature's height requirement. The huge stone structure was a major contributor to the enormous jump in the final cost of the Aqueduct to $9.5 million. When Douglass took over as chief engineer of the Croton project in June 1835, his first tas…
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system. Another was the nearly 40-mile-long tunnel needed to carry the Croton water from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir on Murray Hill, between 5th and 6th Avenues, from 40th Street to 42nd Street (figure 16). Douglass proposed that the tun- n…
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works, a masonry structure with the waterway lined with cast Iron. In suggesting the design for the Sing Sing Aqueduct Bridge, Jervis revealed early in 1837 the approach he would take in plan- ning the building of the other major structures of the Cr…
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the Water Commissioners would have general administrative overview of the project as a "Board of Directors," Douglass divided ten of the remaining eleven "specifica- tions" between the responsibilities of the Engineering Department and the particular…
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a day. During the winter months when most construction activities ceased, Jervis, ever mindful of economy, reduced the size of the staff in each division. The organization of the Engineering Department that was used on the Croton Aqueduct served as a…
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Manhattan. The system was designed for a population of 450,000 people using 20 gallons per day, which would give the requirement of 9 million gallons to be delivered by the Aqueduct. It is interesting to note that this appeared to be perfectly adequa…
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the aqueduct from the Croton river to the north bank of the Harlem River 33 miles, and determined the grade of the aqueduct at about 13' /4 inches to the mile. It was, in the main, well located. In regard to plans of work, he proposed a cross section…
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designing a new dam with a much larg- er spillway capable of taking a larger quantity of flood water, Jervis was forced to build the Dam, in part, on a gravel bottom since the rock ledge did not extend across the river valley. Even though Jervis desi…
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gates. Aqueduct bridges Where major water courses crossed the line of the Aqueduct it was necessary to build something larger than a culvert, and Jervis was forced to consider aqueduct bridges along the length of the Aqueduct between the Croton Dam a…
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Bridge at Sing Sing (plan and elevation), c. 1837-39, watercolor and ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY, drawing #317. Photo: G. R. Farley figure 28. below left: Elevation of a Higli Bridge for Crossing Hariaem [sic] River, c.1839-…
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great acclamation from the citizens of New York City. The High Bridge was not completed until 1848. Notes 1. Charles King, A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct (New York, 1843), p.220. 2. See selected bibliography o…
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largely owned, by the tenant farming families who had appeared as a landowner along the line of the Aqueduct, near Indian Brook in Mount Pleasant (today Ossining); Oscar Irving and his uncle Washington Irving had their neighbor George Harvey re-model…
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place [Yonkers] whom I met today, expresses the greatest cordiality and good feeling.^ In general. Douglass boasted "that a better disposed or more rea- sonable set of landholders than those on the line of the Croton Aqueduct is very seldom found. Ve…
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Water Commissioners characterized as "unreasonable demands ... by a portion of the inhabitants of Westchester" stymied the project. By law, engineers could not begin work on any lands not purchased or appraised. Anxious to get the work started and wi…
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century Westchester swallowed whole, as it were, this pre-digested image of the Irish laborer. Occasionally, some day laborers who were bare- ly paid a subsistence wage, in fact fueled the farmers' stereotype- driven intolerance. Gabriel Purdy and Ro…
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bias. West Point-trained resident engi- neer Edmund French wrote to Jervis from Sing Sing, April 25, 1838, figure 37: Irish RIbbonmen, wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1859 Courtesy The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns. Photo: J. Ken…
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been achieved. The out- come was foretold in an article in the New York Sun, June 16, 1837: Being mainly speculators themselves, the Commissioners must have known that landholders are seldom diffident in taking advan- tages of public improvements, to…
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of Westchester, not previously purchased. The meeting of the appraisers was ... fixed and notified for the 23rd of Oct. 1837, at the house of John Bashfbrd, in the village of Yonkers." 14. J. B. Jervis' monthly report to the Water Commissioners, Docu…
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in the growth of the City's population or a chapter in the development of municipal services. The design and construction of the Aqueduct is also noted as one of the remarkable technical accomplishments of 19th-century engineering. The Croton Aqueduc…
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if the City was to "be to this country what London was to England."^ Pre-eminence had dire implications for the neighboring regions. The rural community or region which is the source of this precious natural resource will not only find itself under s…
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the United States and the State of New York." They asked that the act be repealed and that they be left, "as all good citizens should be left, free from any such intrusion or dis- seizin, peaceably to enjoy, retain or dispose of their respective real…
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distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Brid…
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for half a century, until the dam collapse. At high tide, mer- chant schooners and sloops had transported wheat up-river to the Underhill mills and returned loaded with flour for the New York mar- ket. But in 1841, the Underhills gave up the milling …
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focus on New York City. Weidner's family had tieen displaced by the Catskill Aqueduct and, as a result, his work, though it still remains urbarvcentered, shows more concern for these kinds of issues. 2. Edward Wegmann's The Water Supply of The Cityof…
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and urban life.^ At the same time, Americans longed to place the United States in a cultural continuum of noble historical progress, and aqueducts symbolized the achievements of great civi- lizations. Technological progress was avidly desired, yet on…
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classical antiquity. King, a merchant and editor of the Ne-d; York American,^" also used weighty rhetoric to stress American superiority in achieving such a great public work by the vote and fiscal commitment of civic- minded citizens, rather than by…