Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage - Washington & Hamilton, Central Park, Brooklyn Walking Tours https://www.revolutionarytoursnyc.com Best Walking Tours New York City, Revolutionary War, Central Park, Hamilton, Washington Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:40:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Brooklyn Bridge Fallout Shelter https://www.revolutionarytoursnyc.com/2019/12/12/brooklyn-bridge-fallout-shelter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brooklyn-bridge-fallout-shelter Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:40:09 +0000 http://www.revolutionarytoursnyc.com/?p=1050 In 2006, as the city was performing an inspection of the Brooklyn Bridge to uncover structural abnormalities, they made an unusual find. In a dark and dank arched structure on the shoreline of the East River, underneath the bridge and near the Manhattan anchorage they found “medical supplies, paper blankets, drugs,” a stockpile of cold-war-era […]

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