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Out of the Archives: The Old Croton Aqueduct delivered water to NYC from 1842-1959. By 1912, it was so damaged that it ran at half-capacity for safety reasons. Since the Catskill Aqueduct was still a few years away from completion and meeting the City’s demand for water, the old aqueduct needed to be repaired. This photograph was taken on July 9, 1913, during reconstruction of the aqueduct running through the Sing Sing Kill Bridge (AKA the Double Arch) in Ossining. Visitors today can walk over this very spot, part of the Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park trail. Photograph by J. A. Rundlett. (Image ID: dep_85-36_035)
May 12, 2021- Ossining, NY- Pop-Up Vaccination site opens at Ossining train station offering free walk-in vaccinations and a free Metro-North round trip ticket. The MTA opened eight Pop-Up locations today in NYC, Westchester and Long Island that will operate from May 12-16. (Don Pollard / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
Hurricane Irene: Floodwaters covered the tracks of Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line at Ossining. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Hurricane Irene: Floodwaters covered the tracks of Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line at Ossining. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
My sister took me down to the water at Ossining NY, where she takes the train to work in NY City every day. I just love seeing the Hudson, especially at sunset! It's just gorgeous and scenic wherever you are.
Hope to have a little more time on flickr. Just completed a project I was working on. So glad that's over! Looking forward to visiting with everyone today.
DICK AYERS
Sgt. Fury Annual 3
DICK AYERS
Richard "Dick" Ayers was born in Ossining, New York, in 1924. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, where he published his first comic strip 'Radio Ray' in the Army newspaper Radio Post in 1942. Afterwards he attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Dick Ayers has done much comic work, including penciling, inking, lettering and coloring for most of the major comic publishers, such as Marvel, DC, Timely and Atlas.
Richard Ayers is best known for his work on comics of the gold and silver ages. He has been doing comic books since 1948 when he was assigned to do the Jimmy Durante Comic Book by Magazine Enterprises after he had penciled a couple of stories for the 'Funnyman' comic book by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in late 1947. His most popular work includes drawing for such Marvel Comics as 'The Fantastic Four', 'The Incredible Hulk', 'Sgt. Fury', 'Calico Kid' and 'The Ghost Rider'. He also pencilled, inked and lettered for Charlton Comics in the mid-1950s.
Dick Ayers stayed with M.E. Comics until 1956, having also worked on 'The Avenger'. He switched to the Timely/Atlas/Marvel group, and it was there that he did the most of his production. He started as an inker on 'Human Torch', and penciled and inked 'Rawhide Kid', 'Outlaw Kid', 'Wyatt Earp and Two-Gun Kid', 'Captain America', 'The Hulk' and 'Sgt. Fury' (with John Severin), to name but a few. In the late 1970s and early 80s he also worked freelance on 'Archie' comics.
Richard Ayers also was a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and gave classes at the Guggenheim Museum. After a break, he returned to comics in 1996 to do the thriller 'Dr. Wonder', and is still active in the comics field today.
Richard "Dick" Ayers (born April 28, 1924) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.
Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.
Early life and career
Born in Ossining, New York, the son of John Bache Ayers (b. January 24, 1891, Morristown, New Jersey, d. December 1967, Red Bank, New Jersey) and Gladys Minnerly Ayers (b. June 23, 1900, Glenville, New York, d. circa 1988, Red Bank, New Jersey) Dick Ayers published his first comic strip, Radio Ray, in the military newspaper Radio Post 1942, while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
He entered the comic book field in 1947. In a 2005 interview, Ayers recalled his start in the industry, saying, "It was [Superman co-creator] Joe Shuster who sent me to [editor] Vin Sullivan of Magazine Enterprises. Joe had me pencil some of his Funnyman stories after seeing my drawings at Burne Hogarth's evening class" at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York City. Ayers went on to pencil and ink Westsern stories in the late 1940s for Magazine Enterprises' A-1 Comics and Trail Colt, and for Prize Comics' Prize Comics Western. With writer Ray Krank, Ayers created the horror-themed Western character Ghost Rider in Tim Holt #11 (1949). The character appeared in stories through the run of Tim Holt, Red Mask, A-1 Comics, Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders, and the 14-issue solo series The Ghost Rider (1950-1954), up through the introduction of the Comics Code. After the trademark to the character's name and motif lapsed, Marvel Comics debuted its own near-identical, horror-free version of the character in Ghost Rider #1 (Feb. 1967), by writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich and original Ghost Rider artist Ayers.
Atlas Comics
In 1952, while continuing to freelance for Magazine Enterprises, Ayers began a long freelance run at Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics. He drew horror stories in such titles as Adventures into Terror, Astonishing, Journey into Mystery, Journey into Unknown Worlds, Menace, Mystery Tales, Mystic, Strange Tales, and Uncanny Tales. As well, he drew the brief revival of the 1940s Golden Age of Comics superhero the Human Torch, from Marvel's 1940s predecessor Timely Comics, in Young Men # 21-24 (June 1953 - Feb. 1954). An additional, unpublished Human Torch story drawn by Ayers belatedly appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #16 (Sept. 1968).
During the 1950s, Ayers also drew freelance for Charlton Comics, including for the satirical series Eh!.
2000s
As of 2005, Ayers works full-time as an artist.
The Leatherman (ca. 1839–1889) was a particular vagabond, famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes, who traveled a circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River, roughly from 1856 to 1889.
Go here for more info: www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/briarcliff/leather.html
... wires, an urban touch of melancholy.
Ossining is also hometown of the “famous” Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison.
I do not have photos of that one …. uff…. well, that’s another story … to make it short: I had to delete them.