In 1816, when pedestrians, mules and horses traveled the streets, the newly founded York Water Company installed a wooden water pipe around the Colonial Courthouse, at that time located in the center ...

More than a century later, wooden water tanks continue as icons of the New York skyline. There are about 10,000 – more than in any other American city. Some buildings have steel tanks.

New York: They are part of New York’s skyline and millions of people unknowingly depend on them: behold, the venerable rooftop water tank, made of plain old wood. And forget about technology and ...

Last month, just after New York Gov. David A. Paterson attended the opening of a new subway station in Lower Manhattan, service to the subway line was suspended when a water main that was ...

The wooden tanks on top of buildings all over the city are a quirk of New York’s infrastructure. Wooden water tanks were vital in the early twentieth century, as the city grew skyward.

As several city streets in Watertown are being torn out and replaced, history is being uncovered. Work done at the Third Avenue Northwest bridge unearthed several feet of 134-year-old wooden pipe ...

Two weeks ago, construction crews uncovered that 204-year-old wooden water main in Continental Square while replacing the current water main along George Street in York. It was a find that no one ...