This post is similar to the Loose Ends 1 post I did about the strip of Jersey that faces Manhattan.
Know the place in the foto below? It’s changing quickly. I took this foto yesterday, August 27, 2013. More on this pier later in this post.
Know this place? I took this foto July 4, 2012; Maurania III and P. O. Edward Byrne were there for the fireworks. It’s had many lives and is about to change again. Pier 57 was built around the time I was born after a fire destroyed its predecessor.
Pier 56 . . . as shown in this foto by Seth Tane in the early 1980s . . . is now habitat, as shown here.
The top foto shows Cromwell Pier, a place I never visted. Click here for a great set of memories showing folks who did.
If you used to frequent this section of Staten Island, get down there today if you want to see the last of it.
More piers soon.
Other than Seth’s, these fotos . . by Will Van Dorp.
Click here and here for other Weeks cranes at work.
For my favorite bowsprite pier post, click here for some eerie pics.
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August 28, 2013 at 9:54 am
walt stevens
These humble piers still serve a vital purpose: Pier 54 Hallowed Ground indeed: Titanic, Carpathia, & Lusitania: Today, kids learn to ride the bicycle, and take their very first excursions without training wheels! All this on the half of the pier, that was deemed safe after Sandy. The R/E developers are looking at this property.
September 27, 2013 at 8:49 pm
Hector Aponte III
http://www.historicpier54.tk
August 28, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Capt. Mike
I spent a lot of time looking at Pier 57 when my sailboat was docked at Chelsea Piers in the late 1990’s to the early 2000’s. On 9/11 I spent most of the morning rowing in front of it while watching the carnage at the World Trade Center towers down river: http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-11-2001.html