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	Jerome Park Reservoir Definition / Jerome Park Reservoir Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Jerome Park Reservoir is located in the North BronxThe Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States.
		Jerome Park Reservoir is a part of the New Croton Aqueduct, built in the 1880's and 1890's.
		Jerome Park reservoir is a large concrete lake with a capacity of 773000000 gallons.
	www.elresearch.com /Jerome_Park_Reservoir (218 words)

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		Highbridge park itself encampasses the bridge as well as a small space on the Bronx side (a "sitting park") and a very large area on the Manhattan side.
		In1958, a carillon (which apparently is some sort of bell-thing) was installed in the tower (donated by the Altman Foundation, in memory of the Altman of department-store fame), but both this and the roof of the tower was destroyed by a fire (in which a homeless man died) in 1984.
		South of the Receiving Reservoir at 86th street, similar underground mains carried the water to the Distributing Reservoir at 42nd and 5th Avenue.
	www.undercity.org /stories/croton/maps/maps.html (2091 words)

	Jerome Park Reservoir - Eligible for National Register (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jerome Park Reservoir is the missing link in this 30-mile long chain of recognized historic structures.
		Jerome Park Reservoir is the distribution reservoir for the Croton water system, which normally supplies about ten percent of New York City's water.
		The Central Park Reservoir is being removed from the water supply system and it is possible that all or part of Jerome Park Reservoir will no longer be needed for supplying water.
	members.aol.com /jeromepark/landmark.htm (214 words)

	HANDLING EXCAVATED MATERIAL AT JEROME PARK RESERVOIR -- Bronx
		The completed reservoir will have a length in a north and south direction of a little over a mile, and a greatest width of half a mile, its area being 229 acres.
		Fortunately, there are within the boundaries of New York city, and within convenient distance of the reservoir, certain low-lying, swampy lands which must be filled in or reclaimed, if they are to be rendered serviceable; and for this work of refilling the Jerome Park material offers an abundant supply.
		At the reservoir the cars are run in trains of from ten to fifteen cars alongside the bluff which is being excavated, and the material is loaded by derricks, if it be rock, or by steam diggers if it be soft or loose material, directly on to the flat-cars.
	www.catskillhistory.com /rrextra/jerresov.Html (814 words)

	Area around Jerome Park Reservoir celebrates landmark status by Sondra Levin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While the reservoir and nearby parks were given the designation last year, the conservancy decided against holding the event last year because of difficult logistics.
		The preservation architect spent years researching the reservoir and did the conservancy preservation reports that were submitted for the nomination of the reservoir to the state and national register of historic places.
		Another distinction for the park is that the two-mile 30-foot walls of the reservoir were built by highly skilled Italian stone masons.
	www.bxtimes.com /News/2001/0927/Boroughwide_News/017.html (785 words)

	Sign Information
		Jerome Park’s urbane attractions came to an end in 1890, when the city condemned the property for the Jerome Park Reservoir for the New Croton Aqueduct.
		Jeanette Jerome was born at 426 Henry Street in Brooklyn, and grew up in various residences in New York City.
		Jerome Playground was acquired in 1950 by the Board of Estimate and opened in 1955.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=10995 (488 words)

	Newsletter
		This year’s Speak Up was planned by the Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces, a grass roots coalition made up of over 50 groups that Partnerships for Parks has been supporting in their efforts to advocate for the boros parks and green spaces.
		In her key note address entitled "Strengthening the Root in Grass Roots," Karen Argenti, Founding Member of the Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir and the Jerome Park Conservancy, used the history of the Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir to outline key steps to grass roots action.
		Workers from Bronx and Queens parks and crews from Five-Borough Shops are participating in the preparation, which includes restripping parking lots, various painting projects, repairing seats and the electrical, air conditioning, lighting and plumbing systems.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=13237 (951 words)

	Gotham Gazette: The Filtration Plant In Van Cortlandt Park
		They say that a park adjoining a densely packed residential area is the wrong place for an industrial facility, especially when another location is available.
		Jerome Avenue, where the #4 train rumbles by on elevated tracks, is all that separates the filtration plant site from blocks of tightly packed six-story apartment buildings.
		On a recent Bronxtalk television call-in show, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion said the bill would "expand beyond parks to the kind of facilities that our young people need, like youth and recreation centers, sports facilities." Among the projects he said he would like to see developed are ice skating rinks and boathouses.
	www.gothamgazette.com /print/1064 (2126 words)

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		The Jerome Park Reservoir was built in 1906 in a design by Benjamin Church to serve the Croton Aqueduct system and holds 773 million gallons of water at capacity.
		You have probably guessed that Jerome Avenue was named for the financier, but you may not know that his Brooklyn-born daughter, Jennie (1854-1921), was taken to Paris in 1867 by her mother to mingle with society; in 1874 she met Lord Randolph Churchill, they married, and their son, Winston...
		Believe it or not the Kingsbridge Armory, on Kingsbridge Road between Jerome and Reservoir Avenues, was at one time considered a prime NYC tourist attraction and was advertised in subway posters by the immortal Oppy.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /STREET%20SCENES/spuytenduyvil/spuyten.html (2348 words)

	The Hidden Flow of History:
		The linear state park in Yonkers that covers the Aqueduct-- which is essentially a dirt path in a tree-lined alley that delves between backyards-- blends easily with the land that belonged to the Van Cortlandt family a century and a half ago when the Aqueduct was built.
		The reservoir was originally planned to expand to the east, on the site of an old racetrack, and the land was condemned by the city; but this project was abandoned in 1912 when need for water was alleviated by the Catskill system.
		The Parks department replaced the roof of the tower in 1988 at a cost of $900,000, complete with copper minaret and weathervane; plans to open the top floors to the public were never consummated.
	www.undercity.org /stories/croton/paper/mainpaper.html (8695 words)

	JeromePark's Home Page
		Located in Bronx County, our Jerome Park Reservoir is a community treasure, part of an engineering feat, an urban lake complimenting an urban environment.
		Our Reservoir is the center of the distribution system for the Croton Aqueduct, which supplies 10% of NYC's drinking water.
		The Regional Slant is the story of how Jerome Park residents organized the New York City metropolitan area into fighting the good fight for clean water and watershed protection.
	hometown.aol.com /JeromePark/index.htm (230 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The fact that its reservoir police are denied a piece of equipment so central to their purpose is embarrassing for New York City and bespeaks the City's lack of commitment to watershed protection.
		Large portions of the watershed and reservoirs cannot be seen from the road or from a boat patrol.
		New York City reservoirs are almost frighteningly vulnerable to vandalism or terrorism which could either poison or shut down the supply.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/watershed.html (7619 words)

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		Two reservoirs were built in New York City, one between the present-day lines of 6th and 7th Avenues and 79th and 85th Streets, and a smaller distributing reservoir on 5th and 42nd.
		This reservoir, built in 1905, sits on top of the old aqueduct and some of the aqueduct's stonework can be glimpsed as you walk along Goulden Avenue on the reservoir's eastern flank.
		The reservoir, as well as lengthy Jerome Avenue, takes its name from the Jerome Park Racetrack, which was here between 1876 and 1890; the racetrack was owned by Leonard W. Jerome, the grandfather of British WWII prime minister Sir Winston Churchill.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /STREET%20SCENES/Croton/croton.html (1480 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		My family lived about a block or two from the park so it was a nice walk, or bike ride, or roller skating trip to the park.
		The park was a place where children's moms would sit and chat, play cards or mah- jong, a place where the men would read their newspapers and discuss politics, and the kids would run and play.
		The park got its nick-name "Pigeon Park" and was referred to as that (instead of its actual name, Fort Independence Park) because of the large group of pigeons that would flock there to feast on stale bread the neighbors would feed them.
	bronxboard.com /diary/marra.html (774 words)

	nyc.gov/watershed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		East Branch water flows into the continuation of the East Branch of the Croton River, then into the Diverting Reservoir and eventually into the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County for further settling.
		It travels from there through the New Croton Aqueduct to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, where it enters New York City's water distribution system.
		The East Branch watershed's drainage basin is 75 square miles, a huge area of land for a relatively small reservoir, and includes portions of the Towns of Patterson and Southeast in Putnam County and Pawling in Dutchess County.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dep/watershed/html/eastbranchinfo.html (200 words)

	City of New York/Parks and Recreation: Your Park
		Additional Facilities to be developed with playground reconstruction: dog run, picnic area and reconstruction of park entrances at the southeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park.
		Redevelopment of the western portion of the park, with the addition of a comfort station.
		The construction of a new park to include drainage, water supply, seating and landscaping funding is to match existing grant.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/croton/html/project_list.html (943 words)

	ENB - REGION 3 NOTICES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The proposed facility would be 8,000 square feet including a basement and garage, and have an adjoining parking lot with a capacity for 61 spaces.
		Treated water connections to the city distribution system at the Jerome Park Reservoir would also be required.
		Jerome Park Reservoir: Jerome Park Reservoir 3555 Goulden Avenue, Borough of the Bronx, New York City.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/enb2002/20020213/not3.html (1363 words)

	The Bronx issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The parks and parkways built more than 100 years ago as the "lungs of the city" still make up 25 percent of the borough, and cradled in this surprisingly verdant landscape is a collection of diverse, distinctive neighborhoods—the real soul of the Bronx.
		Nestled between the Bronx's sprawling Van Cortlandt Park and Jerome Park Reservoir lies Van Cortlandt Village, a unique community that was founded on socialist principles—and still operates on them today.
		If you're under the impression that Central Park is the city's biggest bucolic playground, guess again: That distinction goes to Pelham Bay Park, a sprawling wilderness in the northeast corner of the Bronx.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/300/300.ft.bronx.html (3590 words)

	The Filtration Plant In Van Cortlandt Park (Gotham Gazette. July, 2004)
		Parks refers to those areas set aside by the city, state, or federal government for public access and protection of natural resources.
		Previously, she was the editor of the Audubon Activist, a news journal for environmental action published by the National Audubon Society, and an editor at The New York Botanical Garden.
		It was made possible by a grant from the Charles Revson Foundation, and receives support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Times Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Altman Foundation, and viewers like you.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/20040723/14/1064 (2307 words)

	The New York City Watershed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The construction of this reservoir was such a huge undertaking that a workers' camp needed to be built, located on the former site of Brown's Station for its central location.
		Due to the size of its watershed, the largest of all of the reservoirs', New York City was forced to purchase massive amounts of watershed land surrounding the reservoir to help protect the water quality.
		eastern branch of the present-day reservoir, was formerly a lumbering and rafting center.
	www.catskillcenter.org /programs/csp/H20/Lesson4/lesson4.htm (4328 words)

	Public Art in the Bronx...Bronx Neighborhood Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Between the colonial settlements of Westchester and Eastchester, at the mouth of the Hutchinson River and the head of Eastchester Bay, this flat and marshy section was devoted to farming in the nineteenth century.
		It is the major geographical divider of the borough, the boundary between the hilly areas and the eastern coastal plain, the border between the wards of "North New York" on the Harlem side, annexed in 1874 and given an urban infrastructure, and the much-later-developing sections of lower Westchester.
		The park, second-largest in New York City, is the site of an important battle of the American Revolution, and of the 1643 death of Anne Hutchinson and her followers in an Indian raid.
	ca80.lehman.cuny.edu /pa/neighborhood.htm (4853 words)

	New York City Reference
		Jerome Park is the only remaining distribution reservoir for the Croton Watershed (recently the Central Park reservoir was taken off line).
		The Prospect Park Alliance is the keystone in a partnership with the City of New York Parks & Recreation, the Borough of Brooklyn and the corporations, foundations and individuals who invest in maintaining and enriching this beautiful Park in Brooklyn.
		The cast-iron shelter at Hernshead in Central Park known as the Ladies Pavilion was designed by Jacob Wrey Mould in 1871 to serve as a shelter for trolley passengers at the Eighth Avenue and 59th Street park entrance.
	www.panix.com /clay/nyc/query.cgi?C4 (4391 words)

	Bronx County Historical Society \| About \| Chronology
		This is the foundation of the park system of The Bronx, which today covers 24% of the borough's land surface.
		Half of Bronx Park and all of Pelham Parkway and Pelham Bay Park are located outside of the city's boundaries of the time.
		It consists of orange, white and blue horizontal stripes to represent the Netherlands, upon which is superimposed the Bronck family coat-of-arms enclosed in a laurel wreath.
	www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org /about/Bronxhistorychron.html (1314 words)

	What We Do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We will work with the nascent Historic Harlem Parks Coalition, a partnership among local park groups, to leverage programming and resources that each park might not be able to secure on its own; to grow community awareness and involvement; and to increase the capacity and sustainability of the member organizations and Coalition.
		In addition, Partnerships for Parks created a small grants program, funded through the US Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service, to reach out to even more groups by providing resources that were customized to their needs.
		Grant projects ranged from pulling tires from the muck of the Soundview mudflats to training youth to be environmental justice organizers using the river as the basis for the curriculum.
	www.itsmypark.org /wedo/catalyst_special_projects.html (1152 words)

	Jerome Park Conservancy
		Half-hidden on a ridge in the northwest Bronx is another New York reservoir, Jerome Park.
		Formed in November 1994 to preserve the beauty and heritage of Jerome Park Reservoir, its plans include the creation of a 125 acre park encompassing both the reservoir and the land surrounding it.
		Her design reveals the park which lies hidden behind the chain-link fences, preserves the historic elements and scenic vistas, links discrete sections of the new park to the adjoining neighborhoods, and frames the reservoir in a way to encourage public use
	hometown.aol.com /jeromepark/parkplan.html (169 words)

	Dinowitz: Is Jerome Park Reservoir breeding ground for mosquitoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz recently called upon the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to investigate whether the southern basin of the Jerome Park Reservoir may be a potential breeding ground for mosquitoes.
		The reservoir’s southern basin has been drained, and stagnant pools of water have accumulated in the reservoir.
		While both DEP and DOH have investigated the possibility of mosquitoes, the agencies claimed that the reservoir puddles were not breeding grounds for the West Nile carrying mosquitoes.
	www.bxtimes.com /News/2000/0817/Boroughwide_News/30.html (243 words)

	Bronx Watersheds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We are south of Van Cortlandt Park and immediately east of the Jerome Park Reservoir (a part of NYC water system).
		East of the school is the Bronx River, which runs through the NY Botanical Gardens and the Bronx Zoo, two famous world class institutions.
		The Jerome Park Reservoir site in congested northern Bronx is a logical location, has been strongly opposed due to the noise and debris and major heavy equipment involved.
	www.woodrow.org /teachers/es/institutes/1998/r/freshwater/bronx.html (315 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jerome Park Reservoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Jerome Park Reservoir is located in the North Bronx, NYC, NY.
		The Bronx HS of Science, Lehman College, and Park Reservoir Housing Corp. apartment buildings surround the reservoir.
		Since 1996, local Bronx residents have fought to stop the city from converting the site to a water treatment plant.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jerome-Park-Reservoir (131 words)

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