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Brooklyn manhole cover Catskill Water
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (524+ words) It’s not the only Brooklyn manhole cover with “Catskill water” embossed in iron. But it’s the one that caught my eye when I found myself at St. Marks Place and Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights earlier this summer. And it…...
Where Brooklyn Gets Its Fresh Water – Ephemeral New York
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (524+ words) It’s not the only Brooklyn manhole cover with “Catskill water” embossed in iron. But it’s the one that caught my eye when I found myself at St. Marks Place and Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights earlier this summer. And it…...
NY AG James Moves To Protect Historic Burial Ground For Formerly Enslaved New Yorkers In Queens
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (3+ words) Photos: YouTube Screenshots...
Fifth Avenue is Closing This Saturday For a Parade That Got Its Start Nearly 70 Years Ago
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (374+ words) East Side Feed In 1957, a brand-new parade marched up Fifth Avenue, turned east onto a street locals called the “German Boulevard,” and finished on Second Avenue to cheering crowds in a part of the Upper East Side still known then…...
Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Now NYC's First Botanic Garden
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (227+ words) A patch of Williamsburg land with more than 2,000 buried bodies beneath it has just become New York City's first internationally accredited botanic garden. The native plant sanctuary at 63 Williamsburg Street West, part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was officially named…...
Naples Fire Department Displays Engine 81 As 9/11 Tribute
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (41+ words) Basin Now Click your favorite station to learn more KVEL / KLCY Studios2425 N. Vernal Ave.Vernal, UT 84078 PO Box 307Vernal, UT 84078 Copyright © 2026 Evans Family Media | Designed By Firesong Marketing...
September 11 in New York: A day for firefighters
1+ week, 2+ day ago (410+ words) (The Center Square) – Sept. 11, 2001, marked the largest loss of firefighter life in a single incident in recorded history. The New York City Fire Department lost 340 firefighters and fire officers, two paramedics and Chaplain Father Mychal Judge on the day of…...
Custodian who saved several people, escaped World Trade Center's North Tower remembers 9/11
1+ week, 2+ day ago (65+ words) World Trade Center custodian William Rodriguez had planned on taking the day off on September 11, 2001. His boss begged him to come in, and later that day he would become one of the last known people to leave the North Tower…...
In the 25 years since 9/11, lower Manhattan went from wasteland to real estate hotspot. Here’s how.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1120+ words) In the weeks after the attacks of 9/11, O'Hara's Restaurant and Pub on Cedar St. had no power or gas. Still, the owners kept their doors open, operating as a refuge for first responders digging through rubble, searching for bodies, and…...
A NYC firehouse was first to respond on 9/11. 25 years on, Sal Argano is the last still on staff
1+ week, 3+ day ago (944+ words) He rushed downtown to find his firehouse badly damaged but still standing. Six of its members, he’d later learn, were among the 343 New York City firefighters killed in the World Trade Center’s collapse. “If I wasn’t sent out on rotation…...