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Bayonne Bridge Transformation 1

June 30, 2018 in bridge, New York harbor, photos | 5 comments
Tags: Barents Sea, Bayonne Bridge, CMA CGM Dalila, Huron Service, Justine McAllister, MSC Kolkata, sixth boro, Specialist, Taft Beach, tugster

More of the Great Race soon . . . but a bit of back story. When I moved to our fair metropolis in 2000 and started paying attention, I was taken by the Bayonne Bridge, so enamored in fact that I choose it as the header image for this blog in 2006, and now out […]

Turning 80a

November 1, 2011 in Bayonne, bridge, Caddell's Dry Dock & Repair, China, McAllister, New York harbor, photos, ships | 2 comments
Tags: Bayonne Bridge, Bergen Point, KVK, sixth boro, Suez Canal Bridge, tugster

About a year ago this blog featured “turning 70,” with a vessel that subsequently played an unexpected role in history. See the crewman on the bridge wing looking up? What’s he monitoring? Ten minutes earlier I’d caught Suez Canal Bridge nosing around a bend on E 1st Street in Bayonne. That’s Caddell Dry Dock […]

Shooter’s Island: Obstacle

November 19, 2011 in China, history, McAllister, Moran, New York harbor, photos, ships, The Kills, W. O. Decker | Leave a comment
Tags: Shooters Island, sixth boro, Standard Shipbuilding, tugster

The foto I posted yesterday dazzled my image of Shooter’s. Sure . . . I knew it once saw shipbuilding operations beginning with David Decker’s yard, but I never imagined the scale. And when that industry collapsed, the island was reduced to a speed bump. Obliterate it was the solution proposed by a politician half […]