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#ThrowbackThursday: Set Fire to the Snow

#ThrowbackThursday: Set Fire to the Snow
A bonfire on Fulton Street under the elevated train melts snow after the Great Blizzard of 1888. (Photo by Adrian Vanderveer Martense, courtesy The Brooklyn Historical Society)
A bonfire on Fulton Street under the elevated train melts snow after the Great Blizzard of 1888. (Photo by Adrian Vanderveer Martense, courtesy The Brooklyn Historical Society)

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday photograph shows a bonfire lit to melt snow drifts after the Great Blizzard of 1888, which dumped more than 40 inches of snow on New York City.

After this winter, locals can probably sympathize with doing whatever it takes to get rid of the last piles of snow on the ground.

Do you have old photographs of the neighborhood you’d like to share? Send them to us at  TheNabe@TheNabe.me or tweet us at @TheNabeCUNY.

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