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Sewerage

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

by Elizabeth Royte,

From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…

What’s been flushed

by Harper’s Staff,

The draining of a village

by George E. (George Edwin) Waring,

New Washington

by George Alfred Townsend,

Editor’s drawer

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