TS Empire State VI Departs 2022
What’s happening at this bridge? Approaching on what appears to be a wooded river is an antiquated cargo vessel. Know this sylvan location? Might this be a not-so-obscure location referred to as the UES, the Upper East Side of Manhattan? That certainly appears to be a section of the river campus of Rockefeller University . […]
Sixth Boro Summer 4
As I went to one of my locations Thursday, I saw this tow headed up the Upper Bay toward Bayonne, and lamented being too late. I knew it was one of the new DSNY garbage cranes recently being deployed to new marine transfer stations in Manhattan & SW Brooklyn… Panning slightly to the right, a […]
Sixth Boro Summer 3
Lest you think Combi-Dock III and Peking–I will get back to them– are the only thing happening in the watery parts of NYC, here’s just a sampling . . . in a series I started last summer. SBI Macarena –a fairly new bulk carrier– came in past the Brooklynside ramps for the VZ Bridge, passing […]
Names 50
Sometimes dragons seem to gather in the sixth boro. Last weekend seemed to have an esoteric South American theme, which I took the liberty of intensifying by adding to this post some vessels from before last weekend. Bulk Colombia is still in port over at Atlantic salt discharging white stuff . . . salt of […]
Glaze of Spray Follow-Up
Seen at the Narrows Thursday and I asked myself: Have I ever seen this boat? It depends what you mean. Vessel IMO 8968777 was launched in Morgan City LA in 2000 and then came to the sixth boro, which she frequented most of the next decade under three names: Leif S, Sea Ox, and Inland […]
People Movers 15
Truth be told, I don’t post many people carrier photos on this blog, and I mean no slight to crews who work them. The very best boat handling is in order whenever passengers are aboard. What’s remarkable is that I’ve seen all these vessels/taken these photos since Monday of this week! Circle Line, which carries […]
January 2023 Fishing
Eastern Welder and Dutch Girl have been coming into the sixth boro to rake clams for as long as I’ve been keeping a record, which goes back only to winter 2007. It’s probably high time I get more info from the commercial fishermen themselves, but as speaking only as a photographer here, I associate winter […]
Random Tugs 361
Photos from the sixth boro . . . although I’m a thousand miles away and in the eastern mountains… 1974 ex-Exxon Ocean State and and slightly smaller 1975 ex-Exxon Granite State, now Marjorie B. McAllister and Brendan Turecamo. The 1999 ex-Crosby Knight now Stephen Dann was pushing a Centerline barge. The 2009 ex-Allison Crosby is […]
Summer Sail 4
Here are previous iterations of this title. Of course, many options exist for getting onto sixth boro waters. One delightful way I’m most familiar with is aboard schooner Pioneer; get tickets here. Enjoy these photos, mostly taken from the cabin top starboard side and outboard the foremast earlier this week. Soon after leaving the pier, […]
Random Tugs 353
Barry Silverton first came to the sixth boro five and a half years ago. Her twin Emery Zidell appeared here earlier this year, and i believe this is the first time to catch the ATB light and head on. Roughly the same size, Haggerty Girls waits alongside as RTC 80 loads. Mary Turecamo heads out […]
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