Sorry if I confused a few of you with the acronym GHP&W. You see how it expands above. I suppose this is a sixth boro gunkhole of an upscale sort, and I’ll let you guess where at first. And given the date today, my misleading clue is “turkey sailboat.”
I’ll use relative cardinal directions: looking north,
west,
east,
back west,
looking southwest,
And five minutes later . . . looking west,
west,
and east. That’s Brooklyn over on the far side.
And . . . while staying in the channels, you could get to a Manhattan dock in less than 20 minutes from our initial photo.
Here’s a chart view and here’s
more context. See the two green diamonds at lower left of this image? The lower of the two is Teal Bulker, which you saw above. The blue diamond down there is a NYWaterways boat, just 17 minutes from Pier 11. And just north of the complex is a beach that might hint at what sixth boro coastlines once were.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Oh, and that clue intended to distract, here it is, and it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving.
On a personal note, I’d like to thank all of you for reading tugster and contributing in so many ways. To everyone that I’ve crossed paths with in the past year and the foregone 2950+ posts, thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving today and every day. Life is precious and unpredictable.
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November 26, 2015 at 12:06 pm
jdawgswords
thx for posting…love your blog
November 26, 2015 at 2:16 pm
mageb
And a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Hope you have a great day on the water.
November 27, 2015 at 1:36 am
Joseph Chomicz
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2015 at 4:38 am
Rembert
This blog shows me the vital maritime side of America. Special thanks for the pictures of all those cozy little places, which preserve that living heritage. I didn´t know, that the small harbors and dockyards of our children´s books really and still exist. And that New York is well aware of its netherlandic heritage.