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Re: From the Department of If Only: the Jamaica Bay seaport? |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Sat Jul 12 13:41:56 2025, in response to Re: From the Department of If Only: the Jamaica Bay seaport?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jul 12 10:43:54 2025. As envisioned the port would not have taken up all of Canarsie, just the western end near the Paerdegat. Most of the area would have been residential. That would have worked just fine until the advent of container shipping in the 1960’s and its requirement for vast tracks of landside space. Unless the city were able to demolish most or all of Canarsie, which would have been monumentally expensive and probably politically impossible even 60 years ago, the seaport would have been rendered obsolete. At very best it would be like the Brooklyn port in Red Hook today, seeing one or two smallish cargo ships a week if that.And this is not even to mention that the Paerdegat likely would not have been able to handle today’s mega-ships. Sadly, changed in shipping seem to have ended for good NYC’s maritime heritage, except for Howland Hook and whatever Red Hook still gets. |
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