A Medieval Fortress, Not

🫧 Open on Bubbles From somewhere between 1901 to 1907, a picture of the Sands Street gate to enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard: The purpose of crenelations is to give archers places to hide and to shoot outward. The large ground-floor windows of the two gatehouses suggest that maybe, just maybe, the crenelated towers are for show only. There are towers like that all over New York on old arsenals of various types, and there used to be more. I guess once you’ve decided on an architectural symbol (such as crenelati