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Cormorant and I talk sometime; yes, the one on the piling and not the former DEP boat. Anyhow, cormorant prompted me to get these three photos.
So, evidence here is that I did. A red . . . Freightliner Summit Hauler was preparing to tow an odd bundle off M8001 barge held in place by Michael Miller. Might those be bundled barricades? Any idea where this post is going?
Then another Hauler backed onto the barge to tow off another oddly loaded trailer. This was Monday, I believe.
Then last night, I was messaging with some friends and learned about this . . . to the right side of this photo . . . a building on Governors Island. Know it?
It appears that this week, in addition to being UN Week, is New York’s leg of a global show jumper tour, and if not the horses, then certainly all the bleachers and everything else arrives on the island . . . by barge. I’m not knocking anything in this post, but the fact that Governors Island hosts such an event boggles my mind, although you’d think that after living in NYC for 20 years now, nothing would surprise me. Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, it’s not, and Staten Island hosted those horses over 130 years ago!
Three top photos mine, WVD. Previous Governors island posts can be seen here. Hat tip to cormorant.
Millers Launch pushes a lot of interesting cargo around the harbor, like this one (scroll) from July 2014, this one I missed in September 2018, and the five boros sometimes spill out onto the sixth boro with their show business pursuits. And consumer side of show business, I think this 2020 concept was nixed because of Covid?
The previous 70 “something different” posts can be seen here. Not included is the 2006 “floating island.” Recall any other odd barges in the sixth boro?
With Coursen in the shipyard, and the relatively new and unused Governors Island taking its place, a need for a means to transport motor vehicles between the small island and the bigger island of Manhattan has been created. Here Shawn Miller moves a barge for that purpose. I’ve seen Shawn on this run a lot of late.
NYPD has police boats, but no police ferries, so private contractors fill the need, it seems. Could this be a job for Cosgrove?
All photos, WVD.
Here was 15.
What is this? Foto was taken on Colonels Row, Governors Island.
Energy saver of the future?
Prison cage?
Recycling?
Construction material?
Fish habitat?
Monitoring device?
You’ll have to wait til tomorrow at least for the answer. It is pretty, though.
Exactly a year ago, I put up this matrix on a barge.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Let’s make up some words and revisit Sunday’s significant changes to the “landfront” of the sixth boro, not the “waterfront.” In fact, on the waterfront change is fluid, literally. Click on the foto to see the dust fly.
What’s happening on the water at 0553 h? Just the usual . . . bananas
from Ecuador need to be offloaded.
NYPD patrols, and
kayakers make their way across the calm bay.
Tuesday morning, as seen from the Staten Island ferry . . .
machines disassemble the
rubble and
load it onto trucks for processing, once Susan (Catherine?) Miller gets them back to the roads.
Our landfront has never looked this way . . . til now.
Fotos and video by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for the post #1 by this title.
September 2012. Some Governors Island buildings as seen from the Staten Island ferry. Notice the excavator demolish the gradual way.
February 2013.
Building 877 May 2013.
Today, June 9, 07:15 h, as seen from Valentino Pier, Red Hook. Eleven stories about to go down.
Click on the image below to see my YouTube of the implosion.
All fotos and video by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for a view from Jersey City.
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