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Title
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir Ny
Artist
Chris Thomas
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
First Place Winner! "The Q Collection"
The JKO Reservoir covers 106 acres (43 ha) and holds over 1,000,000,000 US gallons (3,800,000 m3) of water. Though no longer used to distribute New York City's water supply, it provides water for the Pool and the Harlem Meer. It is a popular place of interest; there is a 1.58-mile (2.54 km) jogging track around it and it is also encircled by the park's bridle trail. The Reservoir was built between 1858 and 1862, to the design for Central Park of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed its two pump-houses of Manhattan schist with granite facings. It was never a collecting reservoir; it was used to receive water from the Croton Aqueduct and distribute it to Manhattan. After 131 years of service, it was decommissioned in 1993, after it was deemed obsolete because of a new main under 79th Street that connected with the Third Water Tunnel and because of growing concerns that it could become contaminated. It was renamed in honor of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994 to commemorate her contributions to the city, because she enjoyed jogging in the area, which lay beneath the windows of her Fifth Avenue apartment.
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April 15th, 2013
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Viewed 686 Times - Last Visitor from Cambridge, MA on 04/19/2024 at 1:45 PM
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Mountain Home, AR - United States
I love this photo! I am just getting into photography, and just when I thought I could not get any further inspired. Thank you.
Chris Thomas replied:
Joshua, thank you. I'm truely humbled. I feel inferior yet motivated every time I log into this site and see the amazing works on display. Never give up on your art.
Las Vegas, NV - United States
Awesome, please submit to Q - the collection if you would like. Thanks and all the best Gunter Q - the collection ,V
Mcminnville, OR - United States
Nice how the walkway leads your eye to the focal point of the water spraying in the air. Good capture of textures. Voted.
Littleton, CO - United States
Thank you everyone for the nice comments and votes. I appreciate your time.
Barcelona - Spain
Superb b&w picture, Chris! Nice contrast between fence and background buildings. Great work! T V
Vacaville, CA - United States
Nice B & W , the fence does a good job of pulling the eye through the scene.
Baton Rouge, La - United States
Awesome perspective with the city in the distance! Looks great in b/w tones!
Las Vegas, NV - United States
Awesome, please submit to Q - the collection if you would like. Thanks and all the best Gunter Q - the collection, V
Chris Thomas replied:
Thank you Gunter... I did submit it, but it's reward enough that you would ask. Again...Many thanks.
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