Here was 25.
Read those place names: Shellsea, Rowboaten, Flushwick, Rikers Reef, and Yankee Aquarium. Then there are landmasses like CUNY Island. The map called NY Sea is the creation of Jeffrey Linn, an Urban Planner/Designer, focusing primarily on walkable communities and Safe Routes to School issues. He writes, “I do a lot of mapping and GIS in my career. These maps are a bit of a tangent, but I’ve always focused on how sea level rise will impact cities, so it fits in well with my urbanist background. What got me interested in creating these maps is a fascination with how landscapes can change over time.” Jeffrey adds that although it can be “depressing for some to look at the maps . . . the place names help to lighten the mood.”
Click on the map itself for more of Jeffrey’s work. I wonder what the sixth boro would look like if there map were extended about 40 miles in either direction. I know Mount Mitchill (scroll) would be the high point of the area. And as water levels rise, there may be a day like Seth Tane captures here in the subway . . .
For a similar treatment of San Francisco, click here.
And vessels currently or recently in the sixth boro . . . I wish I’d gotten a photo of Ernest Hemingway.
And this one . . . Ice Base, which I noticed the first time bowsprit one day when my imagination was working faster than my eyes, and I saw Ice BABE. At least I though I did. Well, previously I had seen and my camera still thinks it saw Surfer Rosa!
Then last week . . I saw Charles Oxman venture into the Kills for the first time in ages with destination Casablanca. Seriously, I thought it had been sold foreign! In fact it was headed to the newly dubbed Rio Blanco, a fitting moniker for the frozen North River, which appears only briefly some years.
As I write this from just west of Murky City and Bergen Bar . . . I am grateful to Jeffrey Linn for use of his intriguing maps, another of which you can see here.
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March 3, 2015 at 12:58 pm
bowsprite
seacaucus = Land of Black Snakes, will be in the future, Basin of Delectable Black Eel. I love these names he has made! so picturesque it makes one look forward to it! The Sixth Boro becomes one water mass and everything else is a mere sandbar. Sorry: but, it sounds great.
March 3, 2015 at 2:31 pm
Les Sonnenmark
How long before they have to raise the Bayonne Bridge again? On the other hand, maybe dredging the KVK for deeper draft ships won’t be necessary.
March 4, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Carl Schuster
The draught for the “Charles Oxman” is listed as listed as 24.8 meters, with a length of 29 meters….?
March 4, 2015 at 6:22 pm
tugster
carl– good catch. oxman is quite “draughty”