tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post3005789932397732196..comments2009-11-20T15:42:18.507-05:00CityKinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-34300147885014062552009-11-20T15:42:18.507-05:002009-11-20T15:42:18.507-05:00That is fan-freakin&#39;-tastic! Well, not the end result but the little movie.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03116914182888528844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-66576389896926176872009-11-20T15:09:45.091-05:002009-11-20T15:09:45.091-05:00Wow. Thanks for this great link. As a native New Yorker, I could have spent hours at that fellow&#39;s site. <br /><br />There were two parts especially interesting to me.<br /><br />The first was how much building was done starting in around the mid-1800&#39;s. New York City enjoyed a very big boom after the Erie Canal was finished (IIRC, around 1830ish). The Canal brought a tremendous amount of goods through the city and really helped make New York into the center of trade and commerce we know it as. This little cartoon is evidence of how much benefit you get from a good public works project.<br /><br />The second was how desolate the block was in the 1970s, during the era when NYC almost went bankrupt (after President Ford told us to Drop Dead). This is extra-horrifying to me when I think about how much our present circumstances (for example, what&#39;s happening in California) have been reminding me of that era in NYC. <br /><br />I&#39;d write more, but it&#39;s almost time to meet the school bus. <br /><br />Blue Ash MomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com