No. 65 

What have we got here?  This sweeping wide-angle or panoramic photo from the Stone Harbor Museum archives shows it was low tide and the photo was taken from the 106th Street pier, unless of course the photographer walked out into the ocean surf with very long or high stilts attached to his feet and snapped this image!

In the background we see a portion of the mile and a half long boardwalk spanning the beach and on the right we can see the 98th Street building known originally as the Casino and by the time this photo was taken had been converted to an apartment house conveniently located not only on the beach and also on the boardwalk, but also close to the shopping/business district on 96th Street.

But what have I left out?  Look once more at this undated photo.  We know that we can pinpoint this photo to a very brief period of time around 1940 or 1941 because that’s when the 2 iconic structures in the center of this photo stood side by side and once had shared the same purpose.  For just a couple of months the two different water towers co-existed – the original tower on the left and its replacement tower on the right – both as part of the water works at the corner of 96th Street and Second Avenue.  Are you able to see this short-lived anomaly?