Lost streams of Brooklyn, mapped by Eymund Diegel
We’ve previously gone in search of Manhattan’s buried streams and most recently reported about efforts to daylight a river in the Bronx, so we were excited to see the report in Harper’s Magazine about a man tracing the lost rivers of Brooklyn. It’s easy to forget, even in the outer boroughs, how much engineering has been undertaken to make New York City more habitable to settlement and how much natural landscape has been reclaimed in the process. Urban planner Eymund Diegel, who works at the New York City Department of Transportation, took Harper’s around to trace the lost Brooklyn streams, and created his own map.
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