Update Page My brother Lou and I hit some spots in the old neighborhood on November 5, 2006 in an attempt to clear some mysteries. This page will hold some of those updates until I distribute them out to their respective locations on the website.
		Mystery photo Sent in by Lucy (Patini) Ellis, the location is Barbey Street, north of Sunnyside Ave. Behind her friend Fran Fiorino the road curves sharply to the right, then north again,coming to a dead end at Highland Boulevard. The house up on Highland Boulevard in the background is still there, but is not visible in my update picture.
		Barbey Court Dead end If you head up Barbey to Highland, you reach a dead end, but can access Highland Boulevard from some side stairs. Neil Sullivan sent a similar shot awhile back; the large concrete base could have been a footing at one time. The 1905 plat map on the right shows they had least planned to connect Barbey, but it may have never happened.
		Highland Boulevard Son of a gun, it looks like that house on the far right of the postcard is still standing-and it changes my perspective on the location of the "haunted house" to a spot lot closer to Barbey than I originally thought. Lou and I walked along the area where I thought it would have been and concluded that the ground sloped off too sharply.
		Reservoir Fence A tip of the hat to city historian Robert Miller who tipped us off that remains of the classic strap iron fence built by the Hecla Iron Works still exists- you have to walk in the area that separates the reservoir bays to find it. This was the second fence, built in the 1870s when the reservoir capacity was expanded.
		Reservoir 2006 I will not post every update photo of the reservoir here but these two shots show a view across the original reservoir to one of the gatehouses and the second is at the gatehouse where two of the valves which controlled the outflow gates still stand.
		Reservoir 2006 Tack on a new mystery; a large tower with a siren in the middle of the path seperating the reservoir bays. From the war? On the right, the original fence to the 1854 reservoir.
		Van Siclen Court 2006 This postcard resides on both the Van Siclen and Sunnyside pages. I haven't identified the building with the victorian turret that appears in the background, but clearly it is long gone, replaced by that tall apartment building.
		Southeast corner, Barbey and Arlington I'm saddened to report that the huge white house which sat on this corner for 100 years was torn down, and it appears 4 multifamily units will be built on the lot.
		Pinky's, Fulton and Jerome Greg Goldstein sent in a number of old photos of Pinky's, the drugstore on the southwest corner of Fulton and Jerome. This is the tax photo and a 2006 shot.
		Warwick towards Fulton I tried to mimic Phil Santella's 1951 shot which can be found on the Warwick page with the various characters identified.
		Jerome Street The first shot is the northeast corner of Jerome and Arlington; it is the house where Titanic survivor Margaret Smith lived. The second joins my collection of "unusual" homes, just for the unique trim which has somehow survived all these years. The house sits on Jerome between Fulton and Arlington.