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So I wake up this morning and put on the coffee, turn on Bloomberg, and scratch parts of my body that will remain nameless. As my bleary eyes started to focus, I headed over to my windows to open the blinds to see what type of day was about to greet me and there it was...a huge floating crane on a barge. Kind of startled me (almost as bad as the window washers scared the cripes out of my girlfriend at 7AM on a Saturday morning) to see this thing just floating on the Hudson.
I shower up, snag the Post which the paperboy can't come within 30 feet of my door (in an apartment building!) and head down to the PATH. As I made my way over to the waterfront walkway, I asked one of the big burly dudes what was going on, and he said "we're buildin' a pier!". Fair enough I said, and made my way to the train.
I know we're all nasty and mean people on here, but do you guys want me to keep a photo slide going of this work in progress? Let me know, and feel free to give me some negative rep points.
Ok, you guy's got it. I will start taking pics of the progress. Now, I know this isn't the booming metropolis of Scranton and it's 'burbs, but just maybe this pier will get more residents to move here...just maybe.
Any idea why they're building the pier? Are they creating a marina? Is it a place for people to gather with benches, etc? Will they be loading coal brought by horse-drawn buggies from Scranton onto barges to send to poor people in Chile?
Ok, you guy's got it. I will start taking pics of the progress. Now, I know this isn't the booming metropolis of Scranton and it's 'burbs, but just maybe this pier will get more residents to move here...just maybe.
I would love to see the progress
This is a completely different Hoboken from back in the day
Granny worked at Mickey Finns...Hoboken guy you more then likely nevah heard of it..Mom worked at some steam ship company...
Any idea why they're building the pier? Are they creating a marina? Is it a place for people to gather with benches, etc? Will they be loading coal brought by horse-drawn buggies from Scranton onto barges to send to poor people in Chile?
hehe are you getting passive aggressive on me?
This is Pier B (pier A is about 500 yards down river). From what my doorman told me last night, this will be a recreation pier only. The boats stay uptown and in Weehawken. I am kind of bummed because I love boats, so it would have been nice to look at all of them.
If this is anything like Pier A, it should be a good time. Thursday nights in the summer, the city of Hoboken hosts free movie night, where they blow up a huge movie screen and residents from all over The Boken bring blankets and sit on the lawn and watch movies.
The coal is actually heading to Bed-Stuy, so maybe when the high speed commuter rail gets finished in 2347, we can increase the black rock stockpile.
I would love to see the progress
This is a completely different Hoboken from back in the day
Granny worked at Mickey Finns...Hoboken guy you more then likely nevah heard of it..Mom worked at some steam ship company...
I think I was still a twinkle in my parents eyes back then. Did you mom work at the Lackawanna Terminal?
This is Pier B (pier A is about 500 yards down river). From what my doorman told me last night, this will be a recreation pier only. The boats stay uptown and in Weehawken. I am kind of bummed because I love boats, so it would have been nice to look at all of them.
If this is anything like Pier A, it should be a good time. Thursday nights in the summer, the city of Hoboken hosts free movie night, where they blow up a huge movie screen and residents from all over The Boken bring blankets and sit on the lawn and watch movies.
The coal is actually heading to Bed-Stuy, so maybe when the high speed commuter rail gets finished in 2347, we can increase the black rock stockpile.
Me? Passive aggressive? Never.........
I was sincerely interested in the reason for the pier- the last suggested use was just a faint glimmer of hope that it would serve a more noble purpose than providing another entertainment venue for you city-dwellers....lol.
And I had forgotten all about the high-speed commuter rail to shuttle people out to Wall Street West- do you think it'll also be used to shuttle workers to and from the coal mines, in case any of the folks in Manhattan decide to leave their Wall Street careers behind and go for some black lung like real men?
I can see how the Wall Streeters would give up their 300K jobs and move to Wall Street West, then they'd transition easily from their Brioni suits to coal miners gear. This all makes perfect sense to me.
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