“Graves . . ” in Art of Brooklyn Film Fest Tonight

First the specifics . . . 70 Henry Street Brooklyn Heights Cinema tonight at 7 for reception with showing starting at 8.    After the show, stop by at Park Plaza Bar about .1 mile nearby.

So it’s appropriate to lead these NYC Municipal Archives photos off with tugboat Brooklyn.

Next  in an icy North River  (?) . . . . . . Richmond.

Launches  Bronx and

Queens.

Passenger steamer Little Silver, which ran between the Battery and Long Branch, NJ in the first decade of the 20th century.

And finally . . . John Scully, a very classy Dialogue (Use the “find” feature to search) built built tug

And the connection . . . here’s what boats of this vintage look like today in “disintegration experiments” in waters everywhere.  I took these in August 2011 while Gary and I filmed Graves of Arthur Kill.

Some boats of this time, of course, still operate like Pegasus (1907) and Urger (1901)

while others try to stave off time so that they might once again like New York Central No. 13 (1887).