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The park (Shore Road Park?) that was down the hill from my grandparent's appartment on Shore Drive in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn not far from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Me and my brother. I always loved visiting my grandparents in Brooklyn. It also meant exploring the most amazing city ever, crumb cake from Ebinger's bakery, limpa bread from the swedish bakery, museums and shopping downtown, Coney Island, and the obligatory visit to Bay Ridge Methodist Church to check out my grandfather's gardening skills on the meticulously maintained grounds there. The playground down the hill from my grandparent's appartment was unlike anything I'd seen before. Like the city itself, the place was larger than life. Seemingly big enough for hundreds of kids to play at once, it had enormous sand boxes, impossibly tall slides, towering swings and the huge jungle gyms we're climbing in this picture. Reaching the top was quite an accomplishment, and insanely dangerous by todays standards of playground equipment, hence our triumphant poses. Taken by my father around 1963 and discovered in my father's boxes of old slides. The Verrazano-Narrows bridge was still under construction. Incredible memories will always be a huge part of my life long love of New York City.

Sandhogs in front of tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutter head after it completed tunneling for the Staten Island Siphon to Brooklyn, March 26, 2015. The new 72-inch siphon was excavated at a depth of 100 feet and replaced the old original Narrows Siphons 1 and 2. It serves as the backup water feed for Staten Island. Photo by DEP Photographer Kristen Artz.