The 207th Street Yard is a rail yard of the New York City Subway system. It is located in Northern Manhattan on the Harlem River north of the University Heights Bridge. It serves as the home depot for the R40s, which are assigned to the A. The 207th Street Shop is one of two heavy overhaul shops in the NYCT system and provides for the overhaul and rebuilding of most IRT division cars...

Out of a Dream: The Flotilla Boat Club

author: Peter : New York, NY

As a largely industrial waterway, the Harlem River has few access-points for boats, aside from the handfull of the local college crew teams and boathouses... This is what's left of the Flotilla Boat Club At the far-northern tip of Manhattan, just south of The Bronx, which lies directly across the river And down to the waterfront and dock area Urban Canada Geese Yet the yacht traffic continues, despite the passing...

Flashmaps: Main Arteries into New York City & Important Telephone Numbers

author: Peter : New York, NY

I've gotta admit, I'm a sucker for those colors and lines Although we've got 3-1-1 now, I kind of wish some of those "Recorded Information" lines still worked. Anyway, I tried a few of the numbers just for fun... Suicide Prevention was someone's mobile voicemail box. Stock Market Prices was a fax machine, World Series was a dead number and Time of Day was a recording explaining that I had reached a non-working number belonging to the US Government... Manhattan New York City

Service Inadequacies All the Time

author: Ampersand : New York, NY

Though probably not sanctioned by the MTA, this "Service advisory" definitely conveys the increasing public sentiment in light of recent service cutbacks and double fare increases by the NYC Subway system, NYC Transit and the MTA.

WTC, 1995

author: Peter : New York, NY

Recently came across this photo of the World Trade Center in a stack of old hard-copy photos and decided to scan it and post it here. I snapped it in the summer of 1995

Whaddo I Gotta Do to Get My Picture Took

author: Franny Wentzel : New York, NY

People taking pictures and a few good accidental posings

The Isle of Long

author: Franny Wentzel : New York, NY

Long Island and metro NYC from 35,000 feet. Pubished on page 156 of the book 'Man-made America - Chaos or Control?' by Christopher Tummard & Boris Pushkarev ©1963 Yale Press Most fo NYC and all of Long Island can be made out in this high altitude photograph taken in the late 50s/early 60s. Some details of note - Verrazano bridge has yet to be started in this view. In the larger scale photos it appears that the Chase Manhattan Bank downtown is in some phase of construction. A larger version of photo maosongsoft.com/uploads/6207/44/2/124124336313.jpg Even larger but with more scanner defects... maosongsoft.com/uploads/6207/44/2/124124323479.jpg

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