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New York cyclists and the “Orange Riding District”
It’s National Bike Month again, and it so happens that Albert B. Barkman’s Road-Book of Long Island (1886) recently crossed our path. It’s an unassuming book at best, but like a great deal of our collections, when given a dose of context it turns out to be an interesting little piece of bicycling and mapmaking history. The Road-Book contains [...]
Posted in Ephemera, General, Manuscripts, Maps
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Also tagged arthur p.s. hyde, barkman, bicycle, brooklyn, cycling, diary, ferry, golden age of bicycling, long island, maps, montclair, national bike month, newark, orange riding district, oranges, road book of long island, routes, trains
A Piece of High Line History
Posted in Architecture, Library, Manuscripts, Photographs
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Also tagged george p. hall & son, henry hudson parkway, high line, hudson river, logistics, manhattan, mckim mead & white, new york central railroad, park, riverside park, robert moses, tenth avenue, tenth avenue cowboys, transportation, urban landscape, urban renewal, west side improvement, women's league for the protection of riverside park
