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Circum Staten Island 2

August 11, 2009 in Blogroll, environment, New York harbor, personal, photos, The Kills | 13 comments
Tags: Bloxom, Witte "graveyard"

In the numismatic world, “pristine” means “never cleaned.” This captures something about the beauty of the “inner coast” aka “the Kills.” As industry moved there, particularly, petroleum, which–like it or not–is the life blood of our world culture, the Kills have served as a laboratory in which human environmental modification and nature’s reaction have […]

Graveyard 1

May 3, 2010 in Blogroll, Don Jon Marine, ferry, New York harbor, personal, photos, Staten Island, The Kills, wooden boats | 30 comments
Tags: Arthur Kill, Bloxom, Graveyard of Ships, Hila, New York harbor, Rossville

I read about this place almost 20 years ago in this NYTimes piece and clipped it, saved it, still have it somewhere. The Witte family, Norman Brouwer, and Arthur Kill–all mentioned in the article–were just names then. Yesterday, thanks to fellow-waterblogger frogma (See her “graveyard posts here and here) and the generosity of Sebago […]

Graveyard 2

May 4, 2010 in Blogroll, Don Jon Marine, ferry, New York harbor, photos, Reinauer, ships, South Street Seaport, steam, The Kills, USN, vessel info, W. O. Decker | 11 comments
Tags: Arthur Kill, Bikini Atoll tests, Bloxom, Day Peckinpaugh, Graveyard of Ships, Hila, ILI-105, New York harbor, Normandy Invasion, Rossville, South Street Seaport

Thank you all for reading and commenting. Let me pass along some of what I’ve learned. Also, check out frogma’s latest. Below, from Jeff S: “The passenger vessel with the lifeboat on deck is the famous New Bedford built at Bethlehem-Quincy in 1928. See hull # 1417. She was loaned to Britain in WW 2 […]