Closing Bell: Fulton Ferry Circa 1968
Long before the ice cream stands and water taxis arrived, the area underneath the Brooklyn Bridge (on the Brooklyn side) was used mostly for storing towed cars and dumping garbage, as these photos from the city’s Municipal Archives capture. How far we’ve come!
Long before the ice cream stands and water taxis arrived, the area underneath the Brooklyn Bridge (on the Brooklyn side) was used mostly for storing towed cars and dumping garbage, as these photos from the city’s Municipal Archives capture. How far we’ve come!
The lead photo isn’t the Brooklyn Bridge; it’s the Manhattan Bridge with all it’s wonder metal.
sort of reminds me of the seaport until a few years ago.
sort of reminds me of the seaport until a few years ago.