Graves of Arthur Kill T minus 2

More from the archives . . .  aerial of Pier 40 and the Holland Tunnel vent . . . photo said to be taken in 1955.

Photo said to be “three-masted schooner” in 1937.  Clearly that’s not a schooner there with the GW Bridge in the background.  Anyone know what sailing ship that might have been?

Photo by Sam Brody February 1938.  Ferry Hackensack foreground with Jack Frost Sugars over on the Edgewater, NJ side.

Todd Shipyard, 1935-41 . .  .  Here’s a list of what was built there and an aerial view (you may have to scroll horizontally) of what it today is occupied by IKEA.

SS Normandie . . . headed for the North River piers.

City of Chattanooga December 1937.

Brooklyn docks as seen from Brooklyn Heights, November 1937.  Here’s a Munson Lines flyer.

Here’s the schedule–sorry for all the repetition–for Wednesday evening’s documentary portion of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, where Graves of Arthur Kill will be shown.  Gary and I will hang for a while at Park Plaza Bar after the show. It may be mobbed?

Something Different 18

As I meander through my internal miasma, the blog stays noir–more accurately noir/blanc–with another set of screen shots from the NYC Municipal Archives, this time all 1940s  . . .Department of Sanitation tugs Spring Creek, Fresh Kills, and Ferry Point, docked in the East River.  Fresh Kills aka Miss Laura . ..  is she still operating out of Duluth?

Here’s another shot of Fresh Kills aka DS 43 off the Bellevue Hospital.  Anyone know what became of Spring Creek and Ferry Point?

Can anyone identify this 1941 tug moving coal scows eastbound into the East River off the Battery?

Undated but in Erie Basin, it’s SS Waziristan next to a floating grain elevator.  It turns out that in early January 1942, SS Waziristan–bound from New York to Murmansk– was sunk by Nazi air and submarine attack off Bear Island, Norway, lost with all 47 crew.

Help me out here . . . an unidentified tug docking an unidentified ship in Erie Basin in 1940.

Meanwhile off Tottenville, here’s a fleet of US Army transports . . . mothballed from WW!?

I believe this is a different ghost fleet in roughly the same area.  Notice the Outerbridge in the background.    Is this where all

this debris lies today?  Actually, I took this photo and the next two just “north” of the Outerbridge in August 2010.

All the vintage photos here are from the NYC Municipal Archives, where too many photos have lamentable scarcity of captioning.