To: lowbridge
Great find - thanks for posting. I'm originally from NYC and my ancestors lived there from 1851 - 1965.
This photo, IIRC, shows an area in Brooklyn now (being gentrified) known as DUMBO - Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
My great aunt lived a few streets away in 1910, in area known as Vinegar Hill.
6 posted on
04/27/2012 1:37:24 PM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
My ancestors as well ... our Patriarch was a Hessian Conscript fighting for the British... his tour of duty ended as a Prisoner in New York.. he was given the choice to return to Europe or stay ... he stayed ... and I get to speak English
TT
13 posted on
04/27/2012 2:17:35 PM PDT by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
To: oh8eleven
This:
Reminded me instantly of this:
15 posted on
04/27/2012 2:29:08 PM PDT by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: oh8eleven
My great grandparents and my grandfather lived at the other end of the Manhattan Bridge, on Catherine Street.
18 posted on
04/27/2012 2:40:51 PM PDT by
popdonnelly
(Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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