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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Ostahanoc River</title>
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		<title>City&#8217;s First Subway Car Found</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/11/17/citys-first-subway-car-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second week of June 1901 saw the formal opening of the City&#8217;s first subway- what was to become today&#8217;s Brown Line- a modest straight line connecting the old Central Depot (across from Old City Hall, now Ludlow Plaza Station) and the Ostahanoc River, taking in the Downtown/Central Corridor areas, as well as the bustling Fifth and Second Wards. With a flourish and burst of a Champagne bottle, the very first car to travel the line was the &#8220;Jenny-Anne,&#8221; an elaborate ceremonial car outfitted with carpeting, electric chandeliers, upholstered seats and even a small wet bar. The car was constructed at the behest of L. Mathewson Burlsworth, whose Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line railroad was a partner in the project. From this point on, throughout the expansion of the subway system in the early 20th cetury, the car was occasionally pulled into service for various heads of state and other dignitaries, including President Theodore Roosevelt (It can be presumed that, for certain reasons, President Taft was not offered a ride during his 1911 visit). In 1914, the &#8220;Jenny-Anne&#8221; (named after the daughter of Mayor Orson Winthrop) was decommissioned and put on display at the Commercial Museum (adjoining the Atlas Exhibition Hall), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bridge Too Far: Stimulus funds to destroy city landmark</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/29/a-bridge-too-far-stimulus-funds-to-destroy-city-landmark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current economic downturn and an infusion of $14 million from the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus bill) passed by congress earlier this spring have brought back to life a controversial city project many believe should never be revived. Since 1988, access to the 19th Street Bridge over the Ostahanoc River has required drivers to make four ninety-degree turns, two entering and two exiting the span. This odd and inconvenient traffic pattern was necessitated when repair work on the original bridge caused it to collapse into the river. Rather than trying to rebuild the bridge in its original location, the city decided to save money by redesigning and reinforcing the parallel pedestrian bridge to handle vehicular traffic on one of the busiest roads in the county. Since the streets leading to the bridge could not be easily re-routed due to a thriving commercial district in the area, 19th Street was turned and extended parallel to the river, where it joined the reconfigured bridge some 15 yards to the north. In the first few months after the ‘new’ bridge was opened, traffic mishaps were frequent. But drivers eventually acclimated themselves to the demands of negotiating the four square [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brothel Five Levels Below the Street</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/08/the-brothel-five-levels-below-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Central Depot, which sat across across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall from 1896 until its demolition in 1968, was a wonderful, massive gothic structure, covered in ornament and decoration which one doesn&#8217;t find much in today&#8217;s construction. It certainly isn&#8217;t found in its replacement, the City Centre Square building, a long rectangular affair, completed in 1972. Below the glass and brown brick-covered box, the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) has its Ludlow Plaza Station, the only remnant of the old depot. It&#8217;s one of the nicer stops in the subway system, with some of the old architectural details still showing through slight neglect mandated by tight budgets over the decades. Central Depot was the showpiece of the of the Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line, a regional railroad that did very well with both passenger and freight transport during this city&#8217;s booming industrial age. As such, the railroad&#8217;s offices were located on the upper five floors of the massive limestone edifice to transportation. The first two floors were dedicated to the grandly-designed passenger concourse and two levels of tracks were located below, which are now used for CSTA subway and regional light rail. But few know about the levels which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Floating Church</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/05/20/the-floating-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 11:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, a smallish abandoned church at the corner of Cricklin Avenue and Potts Lane in South Buxton burned to the ground. It had been in that particular spot for almost 103 years. Before that, it&#8217;s location had been on a barge in the Ostahanoc River. In 1881, Myrna Heichman, beloved wife of shipping magnate J. Peter Heichman died of pneumonia. Her final wish was for her husband to &#8220;Save those poor men&#8217;s souls.&#8221; The men to whom she referred were the city&#8217;s waterfront laborers. J. Peter had loved the rough and tumble attitudes of the dockworkers, but his wife had always found them to be coarse and distasteful, looking down upon them with a certain amount of pity, sure that they could be reformed, if only they had a bit of spirituality in their lives. Duty-bound to honor her wishes, he immediately set his engineers and a prominent local architect, Lackson Dowling (he of the Watson College Administration Building, Pelham Tower and many others) to designing what he thought to be the perfect tribute to her memory- a floating church. No one is sure quite why he thought this to be the best course of action. There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: The Great Flood of 1914</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/29/snapshots-the-great-flood-of-1914/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intersection of Ludlow and Barnham Streets, in the city&#8217;s Northside section, during the Great Flood of 1914. The late-January flood was a result of an unseasonable warm spell dumping the melted remains of the Great Blizzard of 1914 (which itself had also indirectly led to the Cronin &#38; Sons sawdust factory explosion) into the already swollen banks of the Ostahanoc River. The flood, plus the Great Downtown Fire of 1911, the Great Carsonhurst Tornado of 1912, the Great Tin-Cart Riots of Late 1913 and the deaths of two mayors from a flu epidemic in late 1914, helped to cement city&#8217;s reputation as a center for disaster and instability that would last for years. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Light the Tree, Sell the Books</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/30/friday-facts-light-the-tree-sell-the-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of variations on &#8220;LED&#8221; used by various speakers during Thursday&#8217;s municipal Holiday Fest tree-lighting ceremony at Old City Hall: 7 (&#8220;LDE,&#8221; &#8220;LDD,&#8221; &#8220;LLD,&#8221; &#8220;Lead,&#8221; &#8220;DL,&#8221; &#8220;Leed,&#8221; and &#8220;Magic bulbs.&#8221;) :: Number of killowatt hours saved by the widely-touted switching of the tree&#8217;s lights to energy-efficient LEDs: 1,000/day :: And what of the old energy-inefficient strings of tree lights?: They are decorating the outside of the Faulkner Municipal Maintenance Facility, on Park Street. :: According to the local records, the Ostahanoc River froze over every winter prior to 1979. Crossing the river on the ice was a popular winter short-cut, particularly at Bender’s Bend, near the city limits on the North Side. This was made illegal in 1985, after the Plesser’s Day-Care debacle. The law is still in force, though the river froze over completely only once (1988) since it passed. :: The latest recorded ‘first snowfall’ in the city was December 10th, 1999. :: Number of books released this week by local television weather people: 2 (&#8220;Stormy Weather,&#8221; by NBC12&#8242;s Teri Park and &#8220;I Love the Winter Weather,&#8221; by channel 6&#8242;s Rick Mellers) :: Number of people who showed up for Park&#8217;s book signing Monday evening at the [...]]]></description>
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