Articles from NWhyC

Dry Dock #1, Brooklyn Navy Yard

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Kirsten Larson: American Girl Gone Bad

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Burners Beware!!!

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Bayside Acacia Cemetery

author: NWhyC : Queens, NY
Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Life Sentence

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY
Monday, June 30th, 2008

Dry Dock #1, Brooklyn Navy Yard

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY

Dry Dock 1 is the oldest dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the third oldest in the country, completed in 1851. It was a huge innovation for its time, and had a price tag to match... $2 million in 1851 dollars! The granite materials seem incredibly solid, but under the landfill that makes up the Navy Yard, the construction kept bobbing up out of the ground. Eventually, over 1,000 oaken piles we used to secure the dry dock in the ground—perhaps the first time a steam powered pile driver was ever used. The dry dock is still working, over...

Kirsten Larson: American Girl Gone Bad

author: NWhyC : Brooklyn, NY

In an abandoned lot in Redhook, Brooklyn, I found this heart breaking sight, Kirsten--a once innocent American girl--strung out. Kirsten, it seems, came to the US with her family from Sweden, in 1854. In Minnesota, she faced the hardships of adjusting to life as a pioneer in a new and unfamiliar country and the challenge of learning a new language. store.americangirl.com/agshop/ht . . . ProductPage/true#moreInfo But then she came to NYC. See what happened next. What happened to Kirsten? Making sense of it, I thought of what Blossom wrote in her review of Kirsten: ##"You know what usually happens when you buy something beautiful and...