…A covered way flanked by parallel walls proceeds from the ancient city, to the bed of a stream now dry, over which there is a remark- able bridge, with a pointed arch 40 feet high, and supported on one side…

…the wish of many citizens, the plan of Major Douglas, of passing the Harlem on a high bridge, maintaining the level of the aqueduct, be adopted. We quote the reasoning of the report on this subject, and as to the…

…reservoirs, and within the aqueduct, and which was entered through iron doors placed in the arch of the reservoir, and also in that of the one or two places of the arch channel aqueduct bridge. The subterranean channels had similar…

…The balance unexpended will suffice to complete the high bridge over the Harlem, and henceforth the interest on the debt is to be paid from taxes. 56 222 MEMOIR OF THE CROTON AdUEDUCT. delphia, Richmond, and Cincinnati, a large annual…

…Tower's engraved Viezc of the Jet at Harlem River documents the "Maid of the Mist," a fountain spray the engineers created by releasing some of the pressurized water from the inverted siphon that supplied the City until High Bridge…

…of aqueduct was finished last season, and during the present season this gate-house has been nearly completed. The embankment in the Harlem River, which serves the double purpose of securing the cofferdams for the piers of the bridge, and…

…Estimated Expense of the Aqueduct Bridge. '2,000 cubic yards of excavation of earth for foundations on shores, at 16 cents 200 cubic yards of excavation of rock for foundations on shore, at $3 7 coffer dams, including pumping, excavation…

…to raise a dam six feet high, which would turn the water through a low swamp into Mill brook, to follow the north bank for three miles, and then to cross in an aqueduct to its op- posite side, and…

…high bridge, 443,432 00 $8,907,465 00 Nine millions therefore, may be assumed as the cost of the aqueduct, over and above the loss of interest on the capital, until the work be finished and productive. CROTON AQUEDUCT…

…The objections to this project were, that it would be going into another state, that an Aqueduct bridge over the Hudson River would obstruct its navigation, and iron pipes laid across the bed of the 71 river would be exposed…

preferred for the supply of his aqueduct, still adhered to the cold, pure, and abundant springs from the mountains of Tivoli, so Mr. Douglass, disregarding diffi- culties, real and imaginary, and heeding not at all the efforts still to cause…

…Water Commissioners over the aqueduct to its termination at Murray's Hill. 3d. To authorise the Commissioners, with the assent of the Common Council, to change the plan of crossing the Harlem on a high bridge, to inverted syphons and…

…High Bridge Water Tower, 5 LP-0319 1970: High Bridge, Aqueduct, and Pedestrian Walk, LP-0639 1981: 135th Street Gatehouse, List 141: LP-1035 High Pumping Station, List 145: LP-1080 2000: 119th Street Gatehouse, List 312: LP-2051 2000…

…on New York Island 4.187 Total length 37.067 Receiving reservoir from end of aqueduct to south-eastern effluent gate house - - 0.172 Distributing reservoir - . - 0.080 Iron pipes on bridge over Harlem valley - - 0.275 Do. do. across…

…The balance unexpended will suffice to complete the high bridge over

…carried on with such diligence and energy, that the water in the Croton lake was raised sufficiently high to flow into the aqueduct with a depth of 18 inches, on the morning of the 22d June. The report made by…

…Examples of such structures are coal sheds and coal ramps, such as those located by the High Bridge in Manhattan. 32 Section 2: Preservation Above: New Ossining Weir The significance of the Croton Waterworks as a whole is established on…

…Water Towers Two water towers are known to have existed along the length of the Old Croton Aqueduct: one at 98th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue), which is now demolished and High Bridge Water Tower, which is extant…

…length, and 178 high — divided into three stages — with numerous and long tunnels, lighted and ventilated from the depth of 250 feet, by conical shafts of 50 feet diameter at bottom, and four feet at top, and others of inferior…

…Jervis —A profile of the High Bridge (or any other specific iconic structure) 82 —A chronicle of the restoration of a specific structure —The neighborhoods that the Aqueducts pass through, then and now —Past and present attractions and amusements associated…

…We propose to employ this specific signage system for certain sites in Westchester County as well, such as at the New Croton Dam in Croton-on-Hudson and at the Sing Sing Kill Bridge in Ossining. An important component of…