Sixth Boro Summer

I’ve written about summertime and about summertime blues–about beating them.  But since you can’t ever step into the same river twice, or gallivant in the same primordial first boro, here’s the 2016 version of trying to capture the sixth boro with a camera on a hot summer weekend afternoon, looking for shade–any shade will do– as much as looking for novel compositions.

These days odd juxtapositions can be found on west Manhattan piers and

beyond, like Eagle and the fast bird and Loveland Island with a pilot on board and some folks gathered on the starboard bridge wing .  For a post I did last year with close-ups of details of USCGC Eagle AND for a book I highly recommend reading about her appropriate by the US post-WW2, click here.  Speaking of piers, here’s an interesting article on the engineering and construction of Pier 57.

Or come for a tour on Janet D Cruises . . .

with four sails set.

Long Beach comes to Bayonne along with a Celebrity ship and a PWC . . . pesky workless canoe?

Flagship Ivy clings for a spell to the bottom over by the VZ Bridge.

Margaret Moran heads for the next job–or the yard, with Queens’ current and future tallest buildings in the background,

while YP 704 sails past Governors Island, which has sprouted some new hillocks frequented by lots of people.

Joan Turecamo exits the Buttermilk west with a light (?) dry bulk barge Montville, which probably recently carried coal.

All photos Sunday by Will Van Dorp.  for some contrast, see this winter set and this.   More of the summer selects, tomorrow.