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A Tale of Churned Milk: Buttermilk Channel
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Buttermilk Channel is the tidal strait between Brooklyn and Governors Island. The origin of its name is widely disputed, though each story gives us a sense of the historical use of this channel.
An Expressway and a Promenade
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Two 20th-century thoroughfares – the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (1946-1954) and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (1950-1951) – transformed the eastern boundary of what is now Brooklyn Bridge Park. Many parties played a role in their design and construction, including urban planner, visionary, master builder, and “power broker” Robert Moses
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Pier 18
Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, June 9, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. View from the south end.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 22, 1916. Probably photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, October 7, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 11, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, August 30, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 11, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, October 7, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 16, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, July 20, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, June 9, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. View from the north end.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, June 9, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. View from the north end.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, July 20, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, June 22, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. View from the ferry.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, August 17, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 22, 1916. Probably photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, June 22, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, July 6, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 11, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, July 6, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 16, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, June 8 \[9?], 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. View from the south end.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, August 30, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, June 22, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Completed Pier 18, Brooklyn, undated (ca. June 1917). Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Completed Pier 18, Brooklyn, undated (ca. June 1917). Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.
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Pier 18, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, February 16, 1917. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. Snow on the roof and frozen river.
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