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Up above are myriad dangers, Underneath a helpless crowd; Everywhere, both friend and strangers By monopoly are cowed. Blinded visions, ruined dresses. Broken head and thoughts of - well, Are amoung the mad distresses Wrought upon the Brooklyn "L." But we must have rapid transit In this town at any cost. Take a walk - but if you can't chance it Count yourself among the last.

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page 289 - Treasuring cont.

Lewis Mumford in a chapter called "the Insensate Industrial sound" in his Culture of Cities mentions Brooklyn: "the indifference to geographical contours in the application of the formal gridiron to the land surface, was nothing short of sublime: the engineer's streets often swept through swamps, embraced dumpheaps, accepted piles of slag and waste, climbed cliffs, and ended up a quarter of a mile beyond the low water mark of the waterfront."

Gabriel Furman kept diary 1822 quote p 23