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station set against the wall.Henry was good in narratives and recalled his golden memoirs of these variagated spots of beautiful places he had visited in thirty five years in the neighbourhoods strolling the Brooklyn bridge.Bannerman castle at Polletel island,Newburgh did not escape his attention.He narrated the story of scottish immigrant,Brooklynite Francis Bannermann the events that shaped his business empire in early 1900s and how he expanded in the Hudson Island as the army surplus grew rapidly with the construction of a Castle to store extra inventory alongside residential castle for comfort.It was abandoned in 1920,two years after his death,left in ruins aftermath of gunpowder explosion and a couple of bad incidents.The charmingly dilapidated castle accessible only by a New York metro north.They had a mouthful of pleasures and entertainment at Brooklyn before they moved on farthest into the city.They left best hotel in brooklyn,one of the coldest places in america,a four star Henry Norman hotel,as they