Here was #1 of this series, started earlier this month, featuring quite random fotos and thoughts. Here’s a shot looking toward Shooters and Elizabeth, NJ. In the foreground just off the street and that bell tower and to the left of the cement silo are three . . actually four identical brown brick structures; the fourth one is mostly obscured by the silo. I have no clue, although they look like pylons to a structure long gone. Help?
To give a sense of scale of vessels in the KVK, I’m fairly tall, measuring 1.8796 m by last calculation. If I could stand on the waterline, the spritz here would come up past my knees.
Standing here, I could barely reach up past the bottompaint green into the MOL blue.
Tides were quite extreme last week, although I haven’t researched beyond that. The indicator was
stuff like this long submerged engine showing off its transformation.
In a bit, I’m hitting the road . . . gallivant time, so many places to see along so much highway and way too little time. The blog may vacate for a few days . . . But on the 26th, whether I post or not, this blog has its fifth anniversary. This is post #1608 in the past 1825 days. Post #1 was prompted by my huge stone-bellied muse. Thanks so much for reading; I’ve had a blast. I’m eager to get gone and then get back.
PS: If you haven’t voted or asked a half dozen friends to vote for this blog as “best neighborhood blog” and “best photo blog” (#5 and 24), please do so now. A few of you have written to say you like thinking of the sixth boro as one of the overlooked neighborhoods of NYC, the place said to be comprised of five terracentric boros.
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November 22, 2011 at 8:21 am
Goose
Come to Miller Field, Midland Beach – you can find engines, an axis or two and what I assume are other remnants of an ex-military base.
November 22, 2011 at 8:48 am
tugster
where are miller field and midland beach? sorry . . . i don’t recognize the names.
November 24, 2011 at 12:16 am
Goose
New Dorp, where Father Capodano Blvd. ends. Actually, I went for a run on the beach yesterday and it appears that they bulldozed most of the reinforced concrete slabs, which I thought to be remains of the base. They also picked up all the steel junk, so no more engine blocks and half-burried, rusty axes. All that remains of the base (and this is a part of the base for sure) are the old hangar, parachute drying tower and the tower used for guiding the fire of an artillery battery somewhere in Brooklyn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Field_(Staten_Island,_New_York)
November 22, 2011 at 9:53 am
Les Sonnenmark
The brick structures are part of a varnish factory on Richmond Terrace at Granite Avenue, described and pictured here http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/Standard_Varnish.pdf, but the building that fronts them is even more interesting. There’s a maritime aspect, too–amazing what you dig up about old New York.
November 22, 2011 at 10:55 pm
tugster
les–amazing stuff YOU dig up. thanks.
November 27, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Richard Wonder
To add to Les’ information, it appears to me they are smokestack structures. Having been down the driveway there to go to T&B Restaurant Supply which is in a building at the water’s edge of that factory complex it seems that there are big ovens still visible below those smokestacks.
November 22, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Mage Bailey
I voted; I voted already.
Happy blogging anniversary. You offer us wonderful focused stuff every day, and thanks to you, I’m learning about a new world. Have a great road trip and a nice thanksgiving.
November 26, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Michael
At only 1.8034 meters I think I’d have no business getting close enough to any of those ships to take such measurements.