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Myrtle Avenue (Book I)

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ferry, that has caused during the week no little amount of grumbling. The trains to the bridge immediately jumped into prominence as the passenger carrying trains of the road. The novelty and convenience of riding right onto the bridge, instead of having a distance of a block to walk through a narrow and crowded gangway drew passengers from the old elevated route and very many from the surface roads.

This began Wednesday and when the Fulton Ferry trains came up crowded with passengers in the afternoon rush hours and these passengers were all bundled out at DeKalb avenue to wait for a through train to East New York from Myrtle Avenue tracks, there was great kicking. The Myrtle avenue trains were already filled and the fresh host of passengers that were crowded onto them were fortunate

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in many cases to find standing room inside the cars.

The environment man creates becomes his media for knowing it and defining himself, his role in it - that it serves as an extension of his central nervous system for the purpose of receiving and communicating information. the content of this information is at once about the environment and determined, or altered by it according to which sense is activated.

New York Times May 11, 66 Eliot Fremont-Smith

(The past) must be made permanent, and it can become that only when grasped by the imagination in such a way that every moment implies the past and the future because its true significance lies in its being part of a pattern extending from

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Myrtle Avenue (Book I)
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