The Water Log
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
She Thinks My Tugboat's Sexy
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New York Press August 29, 2007 For a day, harbor tugs push against each other, not super cargo carriers “We generally take home one or two a...
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The Last of the Friday Morning Drinkers
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New York Press August 22, 2007 A seaport tradition lingers though the fish guts are gone An unread Daily News lies folded i...
Floating Oldies
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New York Press August 15, 2007 The birth of a very local holiday “You can see the density of the towers here in the downtown financial distr...
Shvitzing it Out
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New York Press August 8, 2007 Naked, sweaty transcendence at the Tenth Street Baths “Inga!” shouts a naked woman, hoisting a bucket of cold ...
Drowning for Dummies
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Our Town downtown July 30, 2007 A surprisingly common way to go If you spotted a dead body bobbing in the river in the last few weeks, join ...
A Man in Miniature
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Our Town downtown July 23, 2007 The accidental making of a model shipwright Dan Pariser has no end of options, but he’ll probably end up bri...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Objet d’Art, and Violence
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Our Town downtown July 9, 2007 A vandalized car tells of bygone adventures, and that New Yorkers like to wreck things I scour the roof of t...
A Dip of Baptismal Proportion
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Our Town downtown July 2, 2007 We swam, we bled, we fretted about infection I have been anticipating my first plunge into the East River for...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
City Kid-Captain
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Our Town downtown June 25, 2007 Pioneer is an urban ship, and that’s no oxymoron “If we could just muster amidships,” says Captain Aaron Sin...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
What If You Could Dive into the River Whenever, Wherever You Wanted?
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Our Town downtown June 11, 2007 This guy says you can. “Let’s see if we can get in. Stay on your bike; we have to escape fast.” I pedal afte...
The Pied Piper of Words: F-R-E-E
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Our Town downtown June 4, 2007 How a summer music festival charges nothing and rakes in tens of millions Last July Fourth, I enjoyed one of ...
The Liminal
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Author Ben Gibberd Our Town downtown May 28, 2007 We’re all mortal, but no one’s existence is more uncertain than the folks who subsist wher...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Were We Swimming in Your Drinking Water?
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No, we weren’t swimming in your drinking water, but these two are. Our Town downtown May 21, 2007 A trip back to the ‘burbs to pinpoint the ...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Rock"
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Me, angry, waiting for the ferry in a line thousands-long. Our Town downtown May 14, 2007 How Staten Island became a virtual prison for tens...
The Floating Hospital to Float Again
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Charles Lercara Our Town downtown May 7, 2007 Alumni of a 140-year-old city program are emerging from the woodwork for a big fat round-the-i...
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Greys’ Anatomy
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Our Town downtown April 30, 2007 The drama never ends at the ER for stranded seals, dolphins, porpoises, sea turtles, and yes, the occasiona...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The 5-Ton Underdog
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Our Town downtown April 23, 2007 For two days, a baby whale stuck in the Gowanus Canal was New York’s Rudy I wander past the DO NOT ENTER si...
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