This gateway to the sixth boro dazzles at dawn, with out traffic or with.
Know this ship? You saw this funnel before in a foggy October post as well as in a sunny September post in the past twelve months.
Here are the specs for the 12-year-old vessel going under the almost 50-year-old bridge.
In the distance, that’s the Newark Bay Bridge, located north of Ports Elizabeth and Newark.
Inbound . . .
outbound, and
closely monitored.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who finally watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time, because of the bridges scenes. It turned out to be a much better movie than this non-discoing blogger ever imagined. See it if you haven’t, for a throwback to Bay Ridge (mostly) back in 1977 . . . which started with a president named Ford , new computers were Commodore PETs and Apple IIs, and the Concorde started to fly to NYC.
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May 9, 2013 at 12:06 pm
WALT STEVENS
Why pray tell do they dog sniff you, and your bicycle at St George going into New York City. How come they don’t dog sniff you and your bicycle, at the
Battery on your way to Staten Island: i guess they just don’t care what happens to Staten Island?
May 9, 2013 at 12:20 pm
tugster
the question is fair and deserves to be asked, walt.
May 10, 2013 at 9:00 pm
bowsprite
Walt! no, no! from Whitehall to St. George, you DO get the sniff down. The question is: why do they let YOU get away with it? cyclists are treated as equally as second-class citizens on this side as well, I’m proud to say.
May 11, 2013 at 10:34 am
walt stevens
I’ve never got the dog sniff going to Staten Island: maybe they’re profiling Bowsprite, or it’s some clever way for the rent a cops to meet women.
It’s one of the oldest tricks, after wearing a wedding band, borrow someone’s dog. I’m really glad i paid my taxes this year!