City Water Tunnel No. 3 Ventilation Towers, Part 2

Shaft 5b, 181 Street and Hawthorne Avenue, Bronx

Shaft 6b, West Tremont and Harrison Avenue, Bronx

Shaft 25b, 10 Avenue at W48 Street

Mystery Shaft, Amsterdam Avenue between W165 and W166 Streets

Shaft 27b, Gansevoort Street between W13 and Hudson Streets

Shaft 28b, Hudson St between Clarkson and West Houston Streets

Shaft 29b, Hudson Street between Hubert and Laight Streets

Shaft 30b, Lafayette and Grand Streets

Shaft 31b, East 4 Street between Lafayette Street and Bowery

Brooklyn Water Supply Long Island Aqueduct, Part 1

The City of Brooklyn built its own water supply in the 19th Century.  It was a series of wells, ponds and reservoirs, running from Massapequa to the Ridgewood Reservoir, connected by an aqueduct that ran parallel to Sunrise Highway, and then northwest under what is now called Conduit Boulevard.  Robert Moses swapped most of the land with Nassau County so he could build highways.  The wells are all gone, but the ponds and reservoirs remain, mostly as parks.  the structures are in disrepair, or have been completely destroyed.  I walked from Massapequa to Wantagh to photograph the section furthest from Brooklyn.  I've included two earlier pictures at the bottom; the Massapequa Gatehouse in 1998, before it had a roof (and a coat of red paint) and the Wantagh Pumping Station, before it was  walled in.

Massapequa Gatehouse

Massapequa Gatehouse

Massapequa Spillway

Seaford Creek

Seaford Gatehouse

Wantagh Upper Spillway

Wantagh Lower Spillway

Wantagh Gatehouse

Wantagh Pump Station

Walking Route

Massapequa Gatehouse, 1998

Wantagh Pump Station, 1997

New York City Water Tunnel No. 3

A few photographs from the 1990s of the structures underneath the ventilation towers from the previous post:

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