6th Boro 5th Dimension 9 Follow-up
Here’s a photo I posted 8 years ago of the northeast side of Jersey City as it looked in the early 1980s. The key landmark here should be the two Jersey side ventilators for the Holland Tunnel. Here the ventilators show at the extreme edge to the left of the photo below. Seeing this old […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension Mon Lei
Recall that “fifth dimension” is my code for the time travel series; call it history if you wish. In 1968–50 fast years ago!!– Mon Lei, which transited the harbor last weekend, was more of a presence. All photos here come from Steve Munoz, who writes: “I saw your post and remembered seeing a Chinese junk at the […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS4
For context in this series, IS2 is most explicit, but for fun, check them all here. The photos in this series, all scans of slides, were all taken after the late 1950s. #1. This is called Hudson raft-up. My questions: Can anyone identify the tug or at least its company? Is that a steam crane […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS3
Here’s another photo shared by Ingrid Staats. If you’ve been to this blog before, you recognize the bridge, but what are Vega and Altair you might wonder. The ferries are aptly named, since they are two characters in a Chinese love story, Vega the weaver girl and Altair the cowherd. Here they operated within the […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS2
First, bravo to Lee Rust who puzzled out 2 of the 3 photos from IS1. And I’ll just paste in his concise answers here: “#1 is Colleen Kehoe passing under the Bear Mountain bridge southbound sometime around the late ’70’s or early ’80’s. Since 1996 this vessel is has been part of the Axel Carlson scuba […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS1
Recall that I refer to the sixth boro of NYC as the water, which has served to create and develop the city’s other boros and to connect it via waterways to places near and far. Also, on this blog, fifth dimension is time, a vehicle to ride backward in it to where the nature […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension Search
Sixth boro fifth dimension posts are about vintage NYC harbor shipping culture photos. This very welcome photo I received from frequent commenter/researcher William Lafferty. This should be an easy question for many of you: where was this photo taken? Here’s what William says about the photo above: “You don’t see classic New York harbor steam […]
Retro Sixth Boro 28
I hope you all enjoy looking at these retro posts as much as I do putting them together. I’m seeing that 2010 was the year I started to gallivant extensively, so the division for July 2010 retrospective is part a is for local, and part b will be for away. Count the boats in the […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension HT2
Here was part 1. Thanks much for the comments. My conclusion is that most but not all were taken at the 1986 centennial celebration of our lady of the harbor. I am still seeking a photo of the canal tug Grand Erie, ex-USACE Chartiers, launched in 1951, at the event. Barque Simón Bolívar, it would […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension HT1
Click here for this series. “Fifth dimension” designates these as not contemporary, i.e., archival. “HT” here is Harry Thompson, who sent me these photos, all from 1986. I’m not going to say much about the photos because I don’t know much. I was not in New York then. I will say what I know, […]
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