The longest tunnel in the world is about to shut down

[angusm]

@gracchus

If that isn’t nifty enough, it fed the Croton Reservoir, now the site of the main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan.

Not just the Distributing Reservoir, but the Receiving Reservoir in Central Park too. Robert Moses finally turned the Receiving Reservoir into the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond, which is probably one of the least malign things he ever did. It seems he was nicer to turtles than to human beings with what he considered the “wrong” skin color.