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CARROLL STREET west of Franklin Avenue, Prospect Heights. The iron Carroll Street Bridge, replacing an earlier span in 1994, carries the street over the open cut of the Franklin Shuttle.
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The Franklin Shuttle here looks like a rural or suburban railroad, which is what it was when it began life as the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway in 1877, during the Hayes administration.

SIXTH AVENUE and West 4th Street, Greenwich Village. Golden Swan Park is named for a tavern that used to be there on the site. It was frequented by Eugene O'Neill, who used it as a model for some of the bars that turned up in his plays.

FRANKLIN STREET and Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint. The old Eberhard Faber pencil factory sports four terra cotta pencils on the corner building, along with the company's star symbol. Yes, the pencils are yellow.

	HIGH BRIDGE, connecting Washington Heights in Manhattan and Morris Heights in the Bronx, is the oldest river-spanning bridge in NYC. It was built as a water conduit as part of the croton Aqueduct system from 1837-1848. It has never carried vehicular traffic, but its pedestrian walkway has been closed since 1960.

	The High Bridge Water Tower, built in 1872, was originally used to equalize water pressure from the Croton Aqueduct.

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