Sunday, November 6

The Power Broker: Chapter 30

CHAPTER 30: REVENGE

 A Summer Scene at Batter Park (postcard, 1917): Castle Garden Fort & The New York Aquarium
(http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/a-summer-scene-at-battery-park-in-1917/)
Castle Clinton, once the site of the New York Aquarium, housed America's first captive Beluga Whale
(info courtesy of: http://www.nps.gov/cacl/index.htm; photo courtesy: http://aquaviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Beluga-Whale.jpg)



Castle Clinton
George McAneny, traditionalist reformer who fought Moses to save Fort Clinton
(photo courtesy of: http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U167970INP/george-mcaneny-holding-a-shovel)
New York Aquarium at Coney Island
(photo courtesy of: http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Brooklyn/photos/NY-Aquarium.html)


Admissions fee to the New York Aquarium--thanks to Robert Moses
Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel which runs directly under Castle Clinton
(photo courtesy: http://www.mta.info/bandt/html/bbt.html)

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