Created by the Olmsted and Vaux firm, this map shows the original plans for Prospect Park, as well as the historic reservoir at Grand Army Plaza (1871)
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Created by the Olmsted and Vaux firm, this map shows the original plans for Prospect Park, as well as the historic reservoir at Grand Army Plaza (1871)
Photo by Ajay Suresh on Flickr
Feltman’s via Boston Public Library
Photo by Michael Appleton/ Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr
Photo of the Brooklyn Public Library flagship by Ajay Suresh via Flickr
Photo by Lukas Schlagenhauf on Flickr
Street View of 70 Fifth Avenue, Map data © 2020 Google; Photo of W.E.B. DuBois in 1918 from Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacob Ruppert’s Knickerbocker Beer, 1912, via Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
“Pageant Book Store, 109 East 9th Street., north side between 3rd & 4th Avenues; Hannah and Her Sisters Bookstore scenes shot here,” Village Preservation (GVSHP) Image Archive, accessed September 9, 2019
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