Indulge me a little misdirection first.. So you suppose the Hughes 130 is loaded with ferry fuel?
I thought the tug here is Little C, but this one is too small. Anyone identify?
Eastern Dawn is a regular in the sixth boro, and
[oh, go back to the top photo and you’ll see Eastern Dawn with a fuel barge] and the other morning I discovered an answer to a long-standing question I had. Do those fuel barges with names like “No. 5” and “No. 6” ever move?
The answer is . . . I caught Eastern Dawn move in with a barge and then transfer fuel from it to
to the stationery barges next to the ferry terminal on the Staten Island side.
Hook it up and pump the fuel into the barge until it gets pumped again . . . into the the ferry tank.
All photos and speculation, WVD. Below is another recent photo of Eastern Dawn with its barge–Port Chester–light.
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February 6, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Les Sonnenmark
In the first photo, what is the tall red building, and where is it?
February 6, 2020 at 2:58 pm
tugster
Good question. Working from the right side of the photo, that’s the building that shows up on google maps as “Heart for Christ Ministry” along Bank Street west of Jersey Street and on the KVK side of Bank Street. That’s the remaining stack of the old gypsum plant, now Atlantic Salt. Ahead of the tug in perspective, that yellow box truck is on Richmond Terrace, headed west. Given all that, I’m wondering if that’s the east end of the projects there. I’ll have to go back and have another look. I liked that photo because it showed Robbins Reef light in a context that made it unfamiliar. Invisible off the the left side of the photo is the new parking garage built as part of the ill-fated “Wheel.”
February 6, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Les Sonnenmark
I’ve got it now–it’s the east end of Harbour View Apartments, at 388 Richmond Terrace. From the photo, I thought it might be a prison, given the few, small windows facing the water. Obviously, the end in the photo doesn’t have much of a “harbour view”; it’s the north side that has all the windows. Definitely not a prison nor the projects. Studio, 1 & 2 BR, $1400-$2000/mo