Midtown Was Once Home To A Reservoir, "With Moonlight Dancing On The Water"
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The Croton Reservoir in the 1800s
Courtesy of the NYPL"Fifth Avenue looking south, 1880, Rutgers Female College, left, reservoir, right."
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"The Distributing Reservoir, Forty-Second Street And Fifth Avenue. 1882."
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<p>circa 1865</p>
Gothamist
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Fifth Avenue in 1879, looking south.
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42nd Street reservoir, looking west at street level, cart, right.
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Demolition of the Croton Reservoir
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