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Bowsprite made my jolly Easter even jollier with her post here, rendering the silvery ovoids of Newtown Creek aubergine. These digester eggs are an essential part of keeping the harbor clean. See this DEP link as a starter. Boston has similar structures on Deer Island, which are part of the same process.
Here’s another shot of Newtown Creek’s facility, as viewed from Peter Cooper Village across the East River.
And yet another view . . . as seen from a boat on the Creek, the loins of 19th century industrial New York. Yes, that’s the now-scrapped Kristin Poling back in 2010.
As bowsprite points out in her post . . . yes, there is a proverbial “recreation area intertwined with a waste disposal equipment” around these eggs . . . a boat launch, a minipark with historical info on local names like this.
This DEP vessel Red Hook is the newest addition to the NYC DEP fleet, which I wrote about quite some time ago here. If you’ve ever seen a vessel of these colors in the sixth boro, you’ve witnessed NYC fertilizer production at work.
Enough seriousness . . . . this post has to be leading into a gassy direction. Imagine this as a multi-hued digester filled with so much lighter-than-air vapor that it came loose from its Newtown Creek moorings.
What if engineers could isolate the light gaseous by-products of digestion so that passenger
craft like this one that circled the harbor last weekend could be exotic-fuel powered?
More digesters in evolution?
And this bit of blue jetsam along the KVK . . . might it expand to digester size . . and if so . . what might hatch from this?
OK . . . back to my serious world. All silliness aside, New York City school kids DO come down to the park around the eggs to see and learn . . . using this “scavenger hunt guide.”
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Bernie sent me this foto about two years ago. I loved it. I’d asked permission to use different of his fotos before–and he always said yes. For this foto, I never asked. I just looked at it regularly, admiring it. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind my using his foto today in his memory. May he live on in his work.
Bernie lived near and advocated for a rebirth of Newtown Creek; some friends went there yesterday to … remember him and to carry on. Here some white flowers float on the Creek as if they were on fine black marble.
Bernie was an inspiration
to me and
other folks. Enjoy these google images of Newtown Creek.
Each of the following tugster posts have at least one foto contributed by Bernie: December 12, 2009; September 9, 2009; September 21, 2008; August 15, 2008;
Bernie . . . we carry on.
Monday of this week I saw Kenny G for only the second time. Scroll through here for a foto from my first sighting.
Kenny G was docked halfway up Newtown Creek with a deck barge on the nose.
No summertime blues here.
Please go back to yesterday’s post and suggest a caption there so that a few more options can be added to the contest poll.
All Kenny G fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Anyone have more info on the sweet summertime lapis blue tug raising spirits in one of the most contaminated waterways in the US?
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