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New York City s Hidden Old-Growth Forests
Tree-Ring Scientists Are Salvaging Centuries of Climate and Historical Data From Demolished Structures
Tree-ring scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are extracting climate and historical information from timbers salvaged out of old New York City buildings. Here, joists are carted away from the 2018 demolition of a circa 1890s warehouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
(Alan Solomon)
In the popular imagination, New York City is a mass of soaring steel-frame skyscrapers. But many of the city’s 1 million buildings are not that modern. Behind their brick-and-mortar facades, its numerous 19th- and early 20th-century warehouses, commercial buildings and row homes are framed with massive wooden joists and beams. These structures probably harbor at least 14 million cubic meters of timber, the volume equivalent of about 74,000 subway cars. Their main sources: old-growth forests that long predated New Y
Susan Ryhanen, who creates Saipua’s specialty bars with her daughter at their farm in upstate New York, offers a step-by-step guide on how to reproduce their sudsy magic.
The College of New Jersey, Colgate-Palmolive, and other New Jersey facts | Albright
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
The Princeton State College became the College of New Jersey in 1996, 141 years after it was founded in downtown Trenton with 115 students enrolled at what was then know as the New Jersey Normal School. Pictured: Trenton Hall, formerly known as Loser Hall.
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Historically speaking, did you know that:
Colgate-Palmolive: Founded in New York City in 1806 by William Colgate, Colgate-Palmolive produced soap products and candles at a factory on Dutch Street. In 1820, the firm expanded its manufacturing operations in Paulus Hook, now Jersey City.