Located one block from Central Park is The Wales, a historic neo-Renaissance building that has defined the Upper East Side since 1899.
Brooklyn built the Ridgewood Reservoir in 1859 to serve its residents. NYC H2O aims to restore its East Causeway, completing this goal.
NYC's Central Park was a grand vision by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux but not everything was shaped anew in the monumental effort
From old reservoirs to parks, we joined NYC H2O on a bike tour of the remnants of the water supply system that kept Brooklyn hydrated before it joined with Manhattan.