This event is a part of a series of six programs associated with Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix, leading up to the launch of Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's New York atlas Nonstop Metropolis at the Queens Museum in November 2016.
Join in an exploration of the former City of Brooklyn reservoir in Highland Park. Ridgewood Reservoir was built in response to Brooklyn's growing demand for clean water, much as Manhattan had built the Croton system some 15 years earlier. While the Croton system is still active, Ridgewood's is defunct, as is Brooklyn's status as an independent city; the old reservoir is now mostly overgrown by forest. Is there a message about the future of water and power in our city hidden in the story of Ridgewood Reservoir?
NYC H2O guide, Jonathan Turer, will lead a walk around the reservoir to find out.
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