Gradual Decline (1913-1940)
As new bridges and new subways took the pressure off the Brooklyn Bridge services, ridership at Park Row gradually declined.
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Famous quotes containing the words gradual and/or decline:
“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, . . .”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)