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Tag Archives: Staten Island Ferry

All Lined Up

07-May-07

Standing on the bus stop, dawn, 5:30 Sunday morning. Traffic down Victory Boulevard is lively. Bikes on roof racks, tire racks, some whole, some piecemeal. Others pedal from who knows where, ferry bound in 20-mile per hour winds on an uncharacteristically brisk morning in early May.
A number 61 bus finally arrives. The saturated blueness of [...]

Ferrying

16-Feb-07

The second time I was nearly apprehended for using my camera on the Staten Island Ferry, a crew worker asked as a police officer escorted me from the boat, “Why? Why do you need to keep doing this?”
“I love the boat,” I answered. “It’s incredible.”
An unofficial rule prohibited photography except for those cameras pointed out [...]