New York City

Dunning Mountain

The top of Dunning Mountain has long been blown away in the strip mining of coal in the mountain. The side of the mountain was cut into to build a dual carriageway for what is now Interstate 99 decades later.

Taken on Sunday October 13, 2019 at Washington Square.

Van Cortlandt Park, 1951

Already 70 years ago, the park was criss-crossed by parkways, with more in mind by the Robert Moses and the Master Builders.

Randalls Island 1951

Robert Moses' home base, where the Triborough Bridge Authority and his office was located at the height of his power.

Gowanus Parkway 1951

By the early 1950s, the modern Gowanus Expressway hadn't been built yet but the 14th Street had been upgraded to be partly grade seperated as a feeder to the Battery Tunnel.