Explore Historic Greenpoint Photos With New Urban Archive Map App

The website Urban Archive launched a new map today with historical photos with many of North Brooklyn’s days of yore.

An Android and desktop-friendly feature to the new map— along with the ios app — makes the content accessible on all devices with an internet connection. The images are sourced from archives from the NY Public Library, the NY Transit Museum, and other public archives.

New York and especially Greenpoint history buffs might appreciate some of the East River waterfront images, including a dock with tug boats at the end of Dupont Street from 1946, and more photos in the vicinity of the Greenpoint Landing development.

 

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📣 BIG NEWS from #UrbanArchive!!! 📣 Today we launch our web app! Urban Archive is NOW available to ANYONE with an internet connection for the first time. That means you ANDROID USERS! 🍾🎉🙌🏾🥳 To take the new mobile-optimized web app for a spin, click the link in our bio to see the story of ‘Mark Twain’s New York’ from our partners at @nyhistory. It explores locations connected to the iconic writer in the city.⠀ .⠀ In 1905, Twain and 170 of his friends celebrated at one of the finest restaurants of the day: Delmonico’s (the midtown location at 522 Fifth Avenue). The occasion was Twain’s 70th birthday, and he shared some hard-won wisdom: “I have achieved my 70 years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else.” ⠀ .⠀ This week we will be featuring City Stories from our partner organizations with links to their content, BUT you can also explore the whole map by going to urbanarchive.org. We are always looking for feedback and will be adding more updates soon, so we want to hear from YOU! 🙏⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📸: George P. Hall & Son⠀ undated⠀ via @nyhistory⠀ #urbanarchiveny #nychistory #midtown #delmonicos #marktwain #marktwainsnewyork #citystory #webapp ⠀ Join Urban Archive 📱 [link in bio]

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As a fun way to get acquainted with the map, the Urban Archive web app also has a stories section with tours of sites related to legends like Mark Twain and forgotten development projects from the city’s past like the transformation of the Croton Distributing Reservoir into New York Public Library’s main branch.