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Where to Go to Learn About the Forgotten History of New York’s Waterfront
These days, New York City’s waterfront is a maritime playground, but for most of the city’s nearly 400-year existence, the waterfront used to be strictly business. Anyone who wasn’t a dock worker or a passenger on a ship steered clear of the shoreline, as all the action we’ve come to associate with New York City…
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Forget Your Summer Cruise! Take a Ride on the South Brooklyn Ferry!
I’m not going to bash Circle Line cruises or any of the companies that specialize in touting tourists along NYC’s rivers. They have their perks. But today I’m going to tell you about the South Brooklyn Ferry, a cruise alternative for the explorer on a budget who’d rather not drop a couple of Hamiltons on…
