Ruined piers. Has New York given up on its coast?
On Monday, I took a boat tour around Manhattan Island. I like boat tours because I learn about cool stuff going on in a city's harbor. This tour's narration mostly talked about landlubber stuff, though. That might be appropriate, though. There are some parts of New York that interact with the water. But for most of the shoreline, it seems like New York has forgotten its water. No place to walk along the water, no piers. Just walls, expressways, a railyard where old subway cars were gutted for salvage...
The narration wasn't all boring sports stories and celebrities. It pointed me at some cool stuff. The pressure equalization tower by High Bridge is a landmark, and the whole system around High Bridge is kinda neat, if you like urban infrastructure and history.
There was some cool stuff. The narration didn't necessarily help me to understand what I was looking at, but I still enjoyed looking at it.
Ruined piers. Has New York given up on its coast?
Maybe there's hope for the future. Some rich folks including Bette Midler
sponsored the building of this boathouse
so that young folks can learn the
joy of mucking about in boats. Bonus awesomeness: it's in a place called
Swindler Cove.
I photographed this factory because I liked its covered conveyors. I
photographed it again later,
from the Williamsburg Bridge.
Thought it wasn't
until I sat down and went through my photos that I realized I'd
photographed the same factory twice on different days from different angles.
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