Railroad Trestle Work, Harlem NY 1870 (Photography)
We've Come A Long Way Baby
As in other early railroads, the dominant propulsion in the Harlem railroad's early years was horse power - as in horses pulling things power.Continue reading
“The Remarkable Rise Of Eliza Jumel,” In Harlem Heights
The NY Times writes George Washington slept there, but, oh, to have been a fly on the wall of that mansion in Harlem Heights, Manhattan’s oldest surviving house, a few decades later, when Eliza Bowen moved uptown from what became Reade Street to live there with her husbands, Stephen Jumel and (again) Aaron Burr. (One at a time, of course.)Continue reading