By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is On the Move.
On the move through New York Harbor (click on any photo to start slideshow)—
From last September’s Hidden Harbor Tour.
Another, more ephemeral, take on On the Move is here.
Posted in New York City, Photography, Science and Technology
Tagged New York Harbor, On The Move, Photography, Port, postaweek, postaweek2014, Ships, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Once in a while it occurs to us that there might be other ways to see New York Harbor than by kayak.
And so, on Tuesday evening, we traveled down to the South Street Seaport and boarded the yacht Zephyr, for one of the Hidden Harbor Tours organized by the Working Harbor Committee. Our appetites had been whetted by the recent Tugboat Races, also organized by the Committee. And reading the description of this tour, it promised to be another highlight:
This tour passes by the Red Hook Container Terminal and visits Erie Basin, home of Hughes Brothers Barges and Reinauer Tugs before crossing the harbor toward Staten Island. It then enters Kill Van Kull, the area’s busiest waterway dividing Staten Island and Bayonne, passing tug yards, oil docks and marine repair facilities. It then passes under the Bayonne Bridge and visits the giant container ports of Newark Bay, Port Newark and Port Elizabeth where the world’s largest container ships tie up. On the way back, we pass by Military Ocean Terminal, the 9/11 Teardrop Memorial, the Robbins Reef Lighthouse and another container port, ending up at the Statue of Liberty for a moment before returning to Pier 16.
We got all of that and more.
Posted in New York City, Science and Technology
Tagged Container Port, Container Ship, Hidden Harbor Tour, Kill Van Kull, New York Harbor, Newark Bay, Port, Ships, Tugboat
By Johna Till Johnson
(Additional material contributed by Vladimir Brezina)
Yesterday, I wrote about the Bayonne Bridge’s 80th birthday. The Bayonne Bridge is one of the loveliest—possibly even the loveliest—bridge in New York Harbor.
But I neglected to mention something in that post. Not because I’d forgotten, but because I don’t like to think about it: Current plans are for the Bayonne Bridge to undergo a structural makeover.
The roadbed of the bridge is being raised from 151 feet at high tide to 215 feet to accommodate the new generation of post-Panamax container ships.
Posted in New York City, Science and Technology
Tagged Bayonne Bridge, Bridges, Container Ship, Engineering, New York City, New York Harbor, Port
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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