A lot of pull
Nobody has complained about all the waterfront photos this week, so here's another one, a hard-working tugboat tugging 12 barges at once, upstream. Behind it, lower Manhattan. That empty space just past the pyramid-topped building, and just in front of the black building, is where the World Trade Center towers were. Meanwhile, about a mile up the Hudson, another tugboat was pulling just a single barge, but a very, very big one, past midtown Manhattan. To learn more about the tugboats of New York Harbor, check out this 2002 article by Columbia University student Bryan McShane. And to hear for yourself how New York's tugboat fleet, as well as other boats, helped out on the day the towers fell, tune in online to the documentary "All Available Boats" at Jay Allison's Transom.org.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @3:08 PM
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