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The Red Hook Grain Terminal is an abandoned grain elevator in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, adjacent to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal. It is 12 stories tall, 70 feet (21 m) wide, and 429 feet (131 m) long, containing fifty-four 120-foot-tall (37 m) cement silos. As the neighborhood's tallest structure, it is highly visible from the elevated Gowanus Expressway and New York City Subway's IND Culver Line viaducts over the Gowanus Canal.
ExpressRail is a network of on- or near-dock rail yards supporting intermodal freight transport at the major container terminals of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The development of dockside trackage and rail yards for transloading has been overseen by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which works in partnership with other public and private stakeholders. As of 2019, four ExpressRail facilities were in operation, with a total built capacity of 1.5 million lifts.
Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79 is a historic barge located at The Waterfront Museum in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. The barge was built in 1914 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, as part of the lighter fleet operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad to move cargoes around New York Harbor and along the lower Hudson River. It has a length on deck of 86 feet, beam of 30 feet, and draft of 2 feet, 9 inches.
Liberty Street Ferry Terminal or Liberty Street Terminal was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's passenger ferry slip in lower Manhattan, New York City and the point of departure and embarkation for passengers travelling on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Reading Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad from the Communipaw Terminal across the Hudson River in Jersey City.
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- ↑ Levine, Lucie (24 May 2019). "10 places with ties to New York City's maritime history". 6sqft. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ↑ "David Sharps on 25 Years of the Waterfront Museum". The Red Hook Star-Revue. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- 1 2 Geberer, Raanan (16 October 2020). "Historic Red Hook waterfront vessels quiet, for now". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ↑ Musbach, Julie (15 May 2019). "Arthur Miller's THE HOOK to Make US Premiere in Brooklyn". Broadway World. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ↑ Croghan, Lore (17 June 2019). "Meet the juggler who brought a barge museum to Red Hook". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
