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  1. I really like your videos. They are well researched and well spoken. Please keep up the good work
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  2. When I was a Sophmore in HS my friend used to steal his parents car and we would underage drive down Lower Wcker as fast as that Caprice would go..looking back we did some crazy stuff and probably still lucky to be around lol. Fun story tho is there is/was a police station down there and I saw the biggest rat ever it was the size of a medium sized Racoon this was back in the mid 80s
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  3. Always a pleasure Ryan. Thank you for your diligence. God bless you. 😊
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  4. I live right next to an Nike missile site. It is an closed-off site for many years with so many proposed projects including a residential area as well as an playground which both of those were flat out reject for many reasons.
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  5. Wooooooo New vid on something weird, gotta love it. JS, we have a lot of odd infrastructure up here in Detroit/flint/Saginaw have plenty of oddities to make for an interesting video 😉
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  6. Thanks to Historians like you, once VR becomes truly affordable, it might one day be possible to walk upon that grand dance floor... Pardon me for a moment... "Will guests kindly not 'moonwalk' during this era? Thank you."
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  7. Thank you, Ryan...once again, a Real Treat...my Father took me in 1954, aged 10, to see the Prototype in the Field near Milngavie...it was Falling Apart by then...apparently my Uncle had worked on the Designs for Mr Bennie...dgp/uk
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  8. This is fascinating! I have heard OF these tunnels, but not a whole exposa
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  9. I believe this bridge is one foot longer than the Sydney harbour bridge which I saw for the first time recently in real life. Pictures in this video don’t do justice to how big it is in real life, it’s huge!
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  10. There was a direct entrance into Bloomingdale's at 59th and Lexington Avenue. Farther up , at 68th Street, there was a platform entrance into Hunter Collage. I'm not sure if that one is still extant.
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  11. Don’t listen to the haters, Ryan. We love you!
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  12. I first became aware of this magnificent bridge when at thirteen, back in 73' I git into antique toy train collecting. Lionel had made and marketed a Standard Gauge model of it back in the 1920's...
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  13. Me and my wife found them in our exploring. They are a cool part of the history of the area.
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  14. When I first moved to the east coast I lived in NJ right above the Lincoln Tunnel. Now I live in Brooklyn and rarely use the vehicle tunnels. I use the subway.
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  15. I kick myself every time I realize this bldg was still standing in 1967 when I first made it to NYC. I didn't know about it until after it was demolished. Glad to see such a good record of construction details. But like most visitors in '67, I wanted to see the Big 3* of skyscrapers. The 3 my Dad spoke of. They were, pictured in our home library, and had been an obsession since childhood. Those 3 were not in the financial district. My knowledge of those other skyscrapers took 30 more years. I dug into the history of skyscrapers when framed photos of the Flatiron Bldg.were showing up everywhere. Its not a true skyscraper, but impossibly tall and old-fashioned. Then, one learns of how the real deal came with the Singer Tower, the Woolworth bldg. and an insurance company building. They were built in quick succession and dominated the skyline. It was an exciting time to be a New Yorker! Though I could recognize the Singer Tower and understood its significance, these new details of the interior are thought provoking. The decor comes as a surprise. I would have expected to see Art Nouveau, the most avant-garde style of that era. Best known as the style of the Paris exposition and metro from 1900, seven years before Singer Tower was built. Curiously, these photos show a lobby styled for an earlier time, very intricate and baroque, Beaux Arts. As if it were the 1880s and there wasn't yet a vocabulary for how a skyscraper should look on the inside. Or, outside for that matter. Try to imagine, as the first architect ever to design a 40 story office building, how do you make it look? I totally agree with the thumbs down for the style of the US Steel building. Ironically, Singer Tower made better use of steel to create the curved dome. *In the mind of a student in 1967, the big 3 skyscrapers were Empire State and Chrysler bldg, and Rockefeller Center. At that time, could be seen one tower of World Trade Ctr completed. Obviously, all about maximizing square footage. Compared with the above 3, it looked like a backwardness in search of a style. Am sorry to see today's Hudson Yards has gone in the same direction. Fortunately, a great deal else recently built in Manhattan is quite spectacular.
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  16. We enjoyed visiting Sandy Hook . I did some shore fishing and I was somewhat shocked to see a NOAA agent searching my tackle bag . She explained that she had the right to do so without cause or a warrant . I really didn't care but if you have something you should not have legally , use my comment as a consideration if you visit Sandy Hook . It is well worth the visit !
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  17. You should have mentioned that Cheyenne has the Biggest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World, the 4014 Big Boy
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  18. Really love your channel and the content. Lots of great info and stories. Thank you!
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  19. Good job Ryan! Very well done.
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  20. Long live lumber
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  21. I have to give you credit for this video, the Hellgate is a rarely covered part of NY history. However, I think you were unfairly critical of the bridge's maintenance post Amtrak takeover - the reduction in tracks was done system-wide in many places post merger, such as Horseshoe Curve. While the bridge objectively looks like shit due to the shoddy paintwork, the bridge's structural and mechanical status is solid, and has never really wavered nor has a major or even moderate accident occurred on or due to it. Again, appreciate the video, but I think the latter half of the video was pretty biased against it.
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  22. I thought I recognized that sub😮 1996 movie Down Periscope the SS Stingray
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  23. I find industrial areas beautiful
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  24. I remember the beautiful Pieta and Belgian waffles! We were visiting from Ohio and I had my first subway ride.
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  25. Henry Hornbostel was the architect for the Hell Gate bridge. His initial tower design for the bridge was a more refined Beaux Arts composition. The project’s budget couldn’t accommodate this plan, so Hornbostel then devised the simpler yet more powerful design of two Roman towers we see today. The curve of the bridge approach was more to align and connect with the New Haven’s Harlem River Branch at Oak Point in the Bronx and to provide the necessary grades (5%) for efficient rail operation. The piers for the bridge approaches where originally to be steel lattice work construction but were revised to be smooth concrete structures to address the Asylum’s concern that steel lattice piers could be used by inmates as a means of escape. The bridge remains one of the strongest steel arch bridges in the world. Thanks for another super video!
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  26. Thanks for sharing this video on coney island. I am baby boomer and my generation in NYC grew up in the later heyday of coney island.
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  27. I wonder if the locks still work in the Morris canal that'd be pretty cool to go down in a boat
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  28. Great video. I have never heard of Governors Island. Awesome material. Thanks for posting.
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  29. Great job! I enjoy all of your videos, but I liked this one a lot. I’ve lived in San Francisco and Monterey and was surprised how much I learned in this episode!
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  30. Excellent, heartbreaking doc. Moving story about a great historical site I hope stays around forever more.
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  31. It's a shame they tore down the Home Insurance Building. Seems like an important historical landmark, not just for the city of Chicago, but for the world as well, as it was considered the first skyscraper, and there have been thousands of skyscrapers built all over the world in every major city since 1883, and Chicago had the first one? Seems like something they should have had the foresight to keep.
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  32. I lived in Elmhurst Illinois which is right along the Iowa Division of the Illinois Central which was the first look i got of trains and the Illinois Central railroad was always one of my favorite Railroad lines. Thanks for posting this. Have a blessed weekend everyone
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  33. Great video. Sent me on a rabbit hole. 😊
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  34. You forgot that people were hidden in trunks for free asmission.
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  35. as a civil engineering student who has always been intrested in history I quite enjoy these videos
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  36. YouTube algorithmed me this because I watch Brent. Am I the only one who wants to join him out there and start a new life?
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  37. Most average thing in ohio
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  38. Beginning geology students are told this story as a cautionary tale. There were several problems with the bedrock under the dam, and it’s quite possible the dam would still be here if the rock had held. (BTW, the rock under the eastern side is schist, not shale.)
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  39. Butner isn't a bad facility. Was there for many years. Jim Baker was housed there, too. He doesn't go into detail really what life is like there. Basically, you can at times forget you are actually in prison.
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  40. What a fantastic effort by the miners and also by the restoration team. Great look at a fantastic historical landscape. God bless
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  41. Yea there is a Nike base by our house
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  42. Raising the road deck was a great idea. Ryan, thanks for your time, work and posting.
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  43. This video shall be of interest to me
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  44. Great research thank you
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  45. Thank you for this history lesson. You do nice work.
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  46. This is the main reason I love this channnel. I love finding out about hidden gems like this 😎
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  47. love these type of docs!
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  48. Australia needs them
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  49. wow u actually made a video of Sandy Hook. That was fast!
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  50. Gives me some Toronto PATH vibes! Love learning about old infrastructure like this
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