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From Wikipedia: Ramblersville is a section of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, bordered by 160th Avenue on the North, Hawtree Creek on the West, the New York City Subway's Rockaway Line on the East and the 102nd Street Creek on the South. 102nd Street crosses the Creek to reach Hamilton Beach at Russell Street. Wonderful image, I love the Happy Days sign!

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THIS is how I remember my dads back of the house ,NOT these but the same,stairs leading down to the filthy smelly poop filled water,where he kept his nice wooden boat,at 33 Russel St.

Ha! The expression a million middle age men make in a mirror! Tough guy!

It seems he was the managing director of the People's Institute in New Your City. Here is a book he wrote: books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=xZcXAAAAYAAJ&dq=C...

Charles Sprague Smith (1853-1910?) founded the People's Institute of New York City in 1897. The Institute presented public forums on current issues, and the consequent "forum movement" it inspired eventually expanded to more than 100 locations, mostly in the northeastern United States. Later, the Institute was also involved in opening social centers, usually at public schools, and it organized a school for community workers. The People's Institute closed in 1934. Smith had been a professor at Columbia University, and was the author of several books, including a 1908 volume of poetry. For a Progressive activist, his verse was remarkably old fashioned. In addition to the book of poetry and the book linked by cecilacase above, his 1903 volume on four Barbizon school painters is available from Google Books, as is his anthologized essay on the Spanish legend of El Cid.

Looks like he's fixin' to whoop somebody's butt!

I'm Charles Sprague Smith, and these are my nipples.

i almost missed how incredible this is

I think there is little doubt that this train wreck took place in Garrison, NY, on October 24, 1897 -- not Harrison, New York.

"A horrible train wreck occurred at Garrison on the Great Hudson River Railway on October 24, 1897, killing 20 people." -- Wikipedia

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery also maintains a collection of William M. Van der Weyde's photographs of this train wreck. Their collection identifies each photograph, twice, as "Garrison, New York" (includes identification taken from mountings).

This photograph, above, is identified as, "Overturned train car with broken windows" -- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Printed on mounting: "Garrison, NY railroad wreck"

Garrison, New York, is located directly across the Hudson River from the United States Military Academy at West Point. A couple of contemporary photographs, below, depict railroad trains passing through Garrison. This may allow you to see how similar the river bank landscape is in the train-wreck photographs to that of the Hudson River Valley.

Harrison, New York, on the other hand,is a small land-locked community in Westchester County (and the only community close to Long Island Sound without access to the water).

"A Metro-North train heads north on Constitution Island, across the river from West Point and just north of Garrison, New York" by Steve Ostrowski



"Garrison, NY Train Station" by Daniel Case


Of course, there's only one letter difference between these two locations.