Bernie Madoff's Home

Via NY Daily News

Most of the money is still not found.

1905 Coney Island Video

Video clip- Boarding School Girls at Coney Island 1905

All around them, are horses and carriages as they board the equivalent of a bus. And once they arrive, we see a few examples of what a different place Coney Island was back then.

Vintage Film 2 -Brooklyn Trolleys

There's some discrepancy as to weather these are all 30's or if some parts are 40's. Some commenters' say these are during the last years of the Brooklyn trolley cars.

Not sure weather its there any longer, some photos from this flickr user, in Red Hook.

Abandoned Trolley Car found in Red Hook, Brooklyn,

originally uploaded by themechanism.

And a context shot-

Sun-Kissed Trolley, originally uploaded by mkaggen.

Or a shot from above -here-

Now in San Francisco, this Flickr member says that this car was painted with the New York Paint scheme, but it actually serviced Philadelphia:

San Francisco: Streetcar, originally uploaded by sowellman.

old film

Found this on Youtube, excellent stuff: Harold Lloyd and Babe Ruth.

An excellent example of how many things change, but some things always stay the same. Our impression of the crazy taxi drivers seems to have its roots at the very beginning of the automobile. Back then many city buses were double deckers, and one didn't go so far to be in a place considered the country: The Bronx. It looks as though there were very few, if any, traffic lights. More police to maintain some sense of order at these intersections. Trolleys everywhere, more elevated trains. As the cars were fairly modern, no lines in the roads, free for all, a mere suggestion of staying to the right. and we wonder why the streets are so chaotic, this is the root of it.

Locations -

-Times Square

-Maybe Herald Square

-Then 5th Avenue

-Yankee Stadium of course

Then in the horse bit-

-Bowling Greene

-U.S. Customs House

-One Broadway

-Washington Square Park

-The Woolworth Building in the background of Bowling Greene

-Brooklyn Bridge

-Manhattan Bridge behind it

-And I'm guessing the Lower East Side by the docks, which would be Fulton Street?

Conceptualizing and Realizing Different Transit in America

This full PBS documentary examines the two contrasting cities of Denver and Portland, and then finally examines the city with an infrastructure with a little of both, New York.

Blueprint America: Road to the Future

A very interesting examination of how a city might be effected by its transit plan.

Brooklyn Trolley Outline

As I think I've said before, the goal of this blog of mine is to gather info on all transportation, all history, and while were at it, future bits and pieces that will indicate, my thesis is, indicate how New York City has evolved. Hopefully I'll get maps of where the streets and buildings were every 50 to a hundred years and eventually make maps showing the progress of the city. What is most interesting to me is the progression and/or regression of the transit system.

The Second Avenue Sagas post on this particular article finds a connection to the past within a concept in the future, and an entire map of proposed trolley routes through Brooklyn that would locally serve the borough where the subway lines miss it.
2nd Ave. Sagas: Future Travel: A Desire Named Streetcar

Manahatta

If you have time, you have to go to the Museum of the City of New York, and see the exhibit about how The island of Manhattan would have looked in the year 1609. From assembled maps, mainly from the British army I think. The project I think also has a book. This is the root of everything I wish this blog to be:  

THE MANAHATTA PROJECT 

Go there and find an interactive map displaying the marshes, hills, forests, lakes, streams, and the natural sculpting of the island before the landfill. You can find any address there and see what was once there, before the west came and "civilized" it. 

Dr. Sanderson on in interview on wnyc's Leonard Lopate Show, says he believes it the island of Manahatta were preserved today, it would be one of the nation's greatest national parks. I could go on and on, but to do that I'd have to read on and on, there is so much information in the site! I imagine I will continue to read or reference this document:

“Mannahatta: an ecological first look at the Manhattan landscape prior to Henry Hudson.” Northeastern Naturalist 14(4): 545-570. pdf