The Queen Mary 2 spent a few hours in Red Hook today, inaugurating the new passenger ship terminal. I rode down in time to catch its 5pm departure.
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Queen Mary Docked at the new cruise ship terminal in Red Hook, at the foot of Pioneer Street. |
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Queen Mary 2 The ship’s prow at the foot of Wolcott Street. |
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Queen Mary 2 Still docked, around 5pm. |
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Give Me Your Tired… No trespassing! U.S. immigration policy in a nutshell. |
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Fireboat In the harbor, seen from Valentino Pier. |
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Queen Mary 2 Rounding the point, heading into the bay. |
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Fireboat A fireboat spraying red, white and blue water. Why do they use an Arabic numeral “2”? Can we expect to see Elizabeth signing official documents “E2R” now? |
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Valentino Pier |
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Moran Tug One of several tugs piloting the ship away from the dock. |
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Van Brunt Street Old warehouses (and new Fairway), along with Bob Diamond’s trolley cars. |
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Trolley One of Brooklyn rail enthusiast Bob Diamond’s trolley cars, with which he’d hoped to resurrect trolley service in Red Hook. |
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Queen Mary 2 As seen from the foot of Van Brunt Street. |
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Bush Terminal From the Erie Basin pier. |
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The Columbia Street Grain Elevator Opened in 1922, closed 1965. |
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Victim of the Allen Wrench This row of civil-war-era warehouses is to be torn down for Ikea’s parking lot. |
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Guard Shack At the Ikea site. |
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Not any more At the Ikea site. |
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Vandals? You do have to wonder how many graffiti artists it would take to do as much damage as Ikea and other developers are doing to Red Hook. (Beard Street, on the plywood wall surrounding the Ikea construction site.) |
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Revere Sugar Factory The landmark dome, seen from Beard Street. |
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Revere Sugar Eric, doing the 4-midnight shift at the Revere Sugar Factory. He says he’s sure there are ghosts there, of the hundreds of pepole who used to work there. Now it’s just him, and a few nutcases who try to climb around inside the old buildings. |
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W. Beard and Sons Warehouse on Van Brunt Street. |
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Fairway At least Fairway renovated this warehouse rather than tearing it down. |
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Sunny’s One of my favorite places in Brooklyn. |
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Revere Sugar Factory The dome, and the Fairway warehouse, seen from Conover Street just across from Sunny’s. |
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New York Dock Co. On Imlay Street. |
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Summit Street Between Hicks and Columbia Streets. |
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Sacred Heart-St. Stephen On Summit and Hicks. Brooklyn used to be called the City of Churches. |
And here’s a map showing the locations of the photos. Those from yesterday are the yellow numbers; the red ones are from Thursday evening’s photos.
(6) the passenger ship terminal
(7) the foot of Wolcott Street
(8) Valentino Pier
(9) the foot of Van Brunt where the trolleys are
(10) Erie Basin
(11) Bush Terminal (not in picture, but on the facing shore of Brooklyn)
(12) the Columbia Street Grain Elevator
(13) the New York Dock Co. building
(14) Sacred Heart – St. Stephen.
