Before the library was built at 42nd and 5th, that area was home to the original Croton Reservoir, a massive above-ground reservoir that held 20 million gallons of water from the Croton River—it ...

The new aqueduct has no trail. In 1906, the original dam was replaced by the current Croton Dam, tripling the size of the reservoir (to 30 billion gallons) and forcing the village of Katonah to ...

Listed below are the locations of these remnants. 1. The Croton Distributing Reservoir’s Original Foundation The old stone work of the Croton Distributing Reservoir can be seen embedded in the ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine ... is that of providing an adequate storage reservoir for the water supply which the new aqueduct ...

The reservoir — in Ulster County ... Spread out near Mr. Bone are color drawings, dated 1836, for the city’s original Croton Aqueduct, which brought New York its first fresh, delicious ...

The exhibition also documents long-gone landmarks like the original Penn Station, Met Opera House, Chinese Theater, and Croton Reservoir. See it at the Upper West Side museum now through September 29.

The New Croton Dam was built atop the Old Croton Dam, which lies submerged beneath the reservoir. The original Croton Dam was built between 1837 and 1842 by a team of Irish laborers for the purpose of ...

NEW YORK — A new study is pointing to a potential crisis with the water supply in the Hudson Valley and New York City, according to state officials. The New York City Department of Environmental ...