Brooklyn Bridge and the Waterfront

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (342+ words) Two historic schooners are resting at the bottom of the Henry Street Basin in Red Hook after sinking in July, leaving their future uncertain and raising concerns over the loss of two vessels with significant maritime histories, according to the…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (93+ words) A car was seen to have caught on fire on the Big Mac Bridge on Saturday. The fire broke out sometime just before 2 p.m. on the northbound lanes of Interstate 471 near the riverbanks of the Ohio side of the Ohio River....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (692+ words) For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (656+ words) But an inlet just off New York City’s famously polluted Gowanus Canal could be their final port of call. The boats — now owned by a company that turns historic vessels into floating bars and restaurants — sank there in early July…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (501+ words) The New York City-based company that owns a historic Maine schooner that sank near the Gowanus Canal two months ago has not decided what to do with it yet. The 128-foot Victory Chimes was built in 1900 and is the last…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (691+ words) For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (696+ words) For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (228+ words) The state’s top historian decried the recent sinking of a legendary Maine schooner, expressing hopes its owner can raise it from New York harbor. “While salvaging her requires tremendous effort and expense, it would be very unfortunate to lose such…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (672+ words) For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (36+ words) Sunken Schooners Rutland Herald Debris of the Victory Chimes and the Pilot floats next to abandoned Red Hook Grain Terminal in the Henry Street Basin, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York....