Ten months ago I did this post of the 1905 ferry Binghamton. Twenty months ago I did this one, this and this with many interior shots at that time. The foto below dates from October 2011 just after Irene.
Here was Binghamton this morning, a work of disintegrative art, refusing to buckle in spite of Sandy.
North end October 2011 and
today, June 2013.
South end 2011 and
peeled back 2013.
Closer up as seen from the right bank 20 months ago and
now.
See a Flickr foto of a NJ historical marker no longer memorializing the wreck, click here. In its place, someone has had the good sense to inscribe the walls of the guardhouse with the 94-year-old words of a gallivanting Edna St Vincent Millay.
How will she fare in the next 10 months?
For a beautifully illustrated report on the life of the ferry prepared by Bill Lee, click here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but cool story here about a 61-year-old immigrant to US circumnavigating in a 24′ sailboat!!
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June 13, 2013 at 12:24 am
Joe
Nobody to thank for that but Arthur Imperator, and his equally cheap son. They used that old boat for a terminal until 2005, they should be ashamed and if possible, prosecuted! Nobody should ride NY Waterways in the 6th Borough if there is a workable alternative.
As quickly as he conned NJ Transit and the Port Authority out of the money for a new terminal he abandoned that poor old lady!
June 13, 2013 at 5:18 am
tugster
joe– i owe you some pics . . i know. as to the boat you’re referring to, i think that’s a different one. you’re thinking of jamestown -ex-richmond, ex-florida launched 1941. this went from ferry 1905-1967 to restaurant to wreck.