shaft

This is looking north at the intersections of Fifth Ave., Broadway & 25th Street.

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Other Bain/LOC photos of the NYC Aqueduct excavation site on Broadway:

In the bottom photo, on the right, you can see the tower of the Stanford White designed Madison Square Garden, built in 1890, demolished 1925. If you look closely, you can make out the nude statue of the goddess Diana, on the very top.

This is the original heavier statue that was sent to Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1691077

Looking West from Lawlor Hill with the Lawlor Shaft Headframe, Rio Grande Lode, in the foreground. The housing was supplied by Mount Isa Mines for their employees. This was a high grade production ore body and the ore was transferred underground on 4 Level to the haulage shaft to the surface. It was not an air shaft.

Robert Lawlor held the 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) Crystal Lease at Top Camp on the new Mount Isa field when the government geologist, EC Saint-Smith, inspected the area in September 1923. This lease was consolidated into Mount Isa Mines holdings by the end of 1924 but Lawlor's Shaft remained the major access point to ores in the Rio Grande lode during the exploration and ore proving phase (1925-9). The headframe and ancillary buildings were featured in a photograph in the Queensland Government Mining Journal, 15 August 1929.[1] In 1930 the Rio Grande mine was described as being served by the three-compartment vertical Lawlor Shaft, from which, at a depth of 54.4 metres (178 ft), a crosscut in the hanging wall cuts through the lode of sulphide ore. Diamond drilling had already proved the persistence of the ore to a depth of 305 metres (1,001 ft).[1] It is not known when the Lawlor Shaft stopped operating but the King's Cross area of the settlement developed nearby and would have constrained mining operations. During the Second World War, it was used for copper extraction. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Isa_Mine_Early_Infrastructure

Westoe Colliery in the distance close to the coast. The massive head gear can be seen above the shaft and coal conveyors to the left. A mine which should never have closed..

A large area already been levelled. Would that have been housing???

Don Tate A fair bit yes. I'd say about a third of that open space still survives - possibly less.

Thanks

Really cool pic and history.