As trains pass by on either side, a lone person walks across the Brooklyn Bridge after the Blizzard left the bridge and tracks covered in snow, New York.
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Before daylight dawned yesterday a remarkable storm, the most annoying and detrimental in its results that the city has ever witnessed, was in full progress.
NEW YORK TIMES, MAR 13 1888
Downtown at 1:30 p.m. on Park Row as people and horse-drawn vehicles struggle to make their way through the snow of the Blizzard.
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