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# #ThrowbackThursday: Set Fire to the Snow
- URL: https://bklyner.com/throwbackthursday-set-fire-snow-fortgreene/
- Published: 2014-03-13T18:44:05.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-13T18:44:05.000Z
- Author: emilyfield
- Tags: BRIC House Studio, Gardens for the City, Long Island, Robert Morris University, #API-Imported

![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)](http://www.thenabe.me/media/uploads/2014/03/bonfiresnow.jpg)

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]("http://www.brooklynhistory.org/))

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](http://www.thenabe.me/blog/2014/02/27/throwbackthursday-great-blizzard-1888/?ref=bklyner.com).

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

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