CROTON AQUEDUCT Signange
Location:  NY
Client: NYC Parks
 

The Old Croton Aqueduct, completed in 1842, was one of America’s great engineering achievements and contributed to New York City becoming a thriving metropolis. The gravity-fed tunnel carried water 41 miles from the Croton Dam in northern Westchester to a Distributing Reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

City of New York Parks & Recreation, in consultation with DEP, commissioned Nancy Owens Studio with Laurel Marx to design an interpretive signage system for the 15-mile portion of the Aqueduct Walk that passes through New York City. The three-sided interpretive sign structures are sited at significant locations along the trail.

Additional consultants include FTL Design Engineering Studio, architect and historian Kevin Bone, and Gail Karlsson, copy editor.

Published in the Daily news “The missing manhattan trail markers”, June 2023.