Nineteen Reservoirs

By the author of Low Life,the now-classic history of NYC’s outlaw underbelly–a meticulously researchedevocatively illustratedprofoundly meditative account of the city’s upstate reservoirs Without the upstate reservoir system that brings fresh water to New York Citythe city would have faded into insignificance. But this engineering triumph had a cost: From 1907 to 1967twenty-six upstate villagesfarmsforestsand other natural areas were bought for a fraction of their valuedemolishedthen submerged to create the Catskills and Delaware watershed systems. Compelled to understand \