A Field Guide to New York City Manhole Covers


SEWER BB

Borough of Bronx

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Borough Presidents Take Control

Following NYC consolidation in 1898 control of the sewers was given to each of the five Borough Presidents. In the newly expanded Bronx, the event was noted in the change from of sewer inscriptions from D.S.I.(Department of Street Improvements) to B. B, (Borough of the Bronx.)

DESIGN:

The 8 wheels circling a center wheel, the ferris wheel design, continued.

UTILITY:

Sewers

RANGE:

This is perhaps the most common of the Ferris Wheel designs seen in Bronx today.

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Don Burmeister -- Photographs