Harbor Tour Highlights Industrial Brooklyn, Past and Present
BROOKLYN WATERFRONT â No matter how long youâve lived in this city, if you havenât seen it from the water, you havenât seen it all. The Working Harbor Committee (WHC), which works to create awareness of New York Harborâs history and continuing vitality, gives Hidden Harbor Tours in the summertime â ticketed boat rides that give riders a peek at maritime areas from lesser-seen angles.Last Tuesday this reporter was on the first of two Brooklyn waterfront tours scheduled for this year (the other will be Sept. 27). The ride was narrated by Dan Wiley, community coordinator to Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and Captain John Doswell, a passionate authority on New York waterways, current executive director of the WHC and part owner of the retired historic fireboat John J. Harvey.
After the yacht Zephyr departed from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport, we turned up the East River (which was technically eastward travel, Doswell pointed out, not northward, as people often think). The tour started with clear views and exciting photo opportunities on both banks, including of the less magnificent but rarely seen undersides of the Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.
The Zephyr turned around in the mouth of Newtown Creek, which divides Brooklyn from Queens. Newtown is best known today as a Superfund site, being the site of a bigger oil spill than even Exxon Valdez. What fewer people might know, as Wiley explained, is that Newtown Creek itself was once one of the busiest industrial waterways in the country.
As we passed the nearby Domino Sugar Factory, Wiley added that at one point 10 percent of the countryâs wealth came from this area of Brooklyn, largely from sugar, oil and ceramic manufacturing, once known as the âblack arts.â Much of the industry along Brooklynâs waterfront grew after the 1825 opening of the Erie Canal, which facilitated commerce between the harbor and the interior of the country. The price to ship a ton of grain from Buffalo to New York City dropped from approximately $100 to $10 per ton after the Erie Canal opened.
We passed on to the Brooklyn Navy Yardâs active shipyard and three large graving docks, which provide critical repair services to the harborâs working ships. The Navy Yard is also the homeport of the FDNYâs fireboat division and some of their large red ships were at dock.
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