Re: (erielack) Three Strikes and I'm Out

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Njricky2_@_aol.com wrote
> If anyone gets to Manhattan when the weather warms up, go to West 23 St.
> and the Hudson River.

I was there last Thursday night for a film show done by the Working Harbor
Committee: vintage films (1930's - 1960's) showing the harbor - including
a few railroad car floats in use and a glimpse of an OLD DLW switcher, I
think an ALCo HH330.

http://www.pier63maritime.com/
http://www.workingharbor.com/home.html

> There is a cafe set up on a Lackawanna barge, complete with an EL
> caboose sitting there that you can enter and have a look around.

Yes, it's a real DLW carfloat, but you wouldn't recognize it.  The caboose
is Erie Dunmore from 1946.

> The menu is picnic food (burgers, etc.) and drinks are available. The
> best is that it's affordable, not like our tourist traps in midtown. 

Closed for the winter, unfortunately.  Also a Water Taxi landing, also
closed for the winter.

> It's worth taking the trip downtown. You can take either the C or E
> trains to W23 and 8 Ave or the #1 train to W23 and 7 Ave. Then just walk
> west to the river.

Or take the 23rd St crosstown bus; it's a free transfer on your
Metro-Card.  I went in by PATH from Hoboken so I walked 20 minutes - it
really is a mile from 6th Avenue to the river.

> Sunsets over NJ are great. It's a very relaxing experience.

Amen.  It even looked interesting after dark, with all the lights in
Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken.

Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey

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