And since the lighting is low, that sexy ambiance is omnipresent. Enjoy interesting twists on classic drinks like the Chinatown Old Fashioned with a Hibiki Whiskey infused with popcorn flavor.
As strange as that sounds, try it. You might actually be pleased. Little Branch is a cocktail bar in the West Village, with a conservative color palette, dim lights, low ceilings, and bartenders in suspenders. The contents are piping hot. In fact, some of the sewer pipes still serving Lower Manhattan predate the Civil War.
Because so many different pipes were already underground—and because at the time, pumping sewage out seemed less important in the grand scheme of things than pumping clean water in, sewer planning in the city was less well thought-out than, say, the design of the Croton Aqueduct upstate. By the time Abraham Lincoln spoke at the Cooper Union, there were already some 70 miles of sewer pipe beneath Manhattan. There is now more than times that. Even before the first Europeans settled on Manhattan Island in the seventeenth century, the water supply was sketchy.
Croton Lake, a reservoir created by damming the Croton River some 40 miles upriver from Manhattan, was completed in The Croton Aqueduct, a complex system that relied on gravity to flow clean water into the city, was constructed at the same time. Water emptied primarily into two main reservoirs in Manhattan: one at what is now the Great Lawn of Central Park, the other at the current location of the New York Public Library.
A second water system, this one originating in the Catskills where several towns were razed to create the Ashokan Reservoir began operation in Aside from the 6, miles of pipe that convey water to the buildings, the main water conduits for clean water to the city are known as Water Tunnels Number 1 and 2, completed in and , respectively.
These are massive tubes, 24 feet across, sunk hundreds of feet below the surface. But they are old, and they leak, and closing the valves poses enormous challenges.
For one thing, repairing a water tunnel is not like changing a light bulb. The precarious condition of the water tunnels is perhaps the gravest infrastructure threat to New York City. The urgency of the situation spurred officials to begin construction of a third water tunnel. Planning began in the s, and work commenced in While Stage One of the project—a mile-long, concrete-lined tube more than 20 feet wide blasted through bedrock as deep as feet below street level, from Yonkers through Upper Manhattan to Astoria—was completed in , the estimated completion date for the rest of the project has been pushed back from to and now to In the years that followed, gas lines were installed throughout Lower Manhattan.
Subsequent expansions in the following decades laid pipe throughout the borough. The subway was dangerous at any time of the day or night … Passengers on the platform looked at me, with my expensive camera around my neck, in a way that made me feel like a tourist — or a deranged person. The break through this painful tension I had to act quickly on impulse, for if I hesitated, my subject might get off at the next station and be lost forever.
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Item details…. A photo depicting what the Lowline park in New York City may one day look like.
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