![]() ![]() “I never said this wasn’t a war,” says Speregen. The city has tried jacketing pilings in heavy plastic to keep the critters out, but it hasn’t worked well: Floating ice tears up the jackets in winter. Speregen says he’s seen fifteen-inch-diameter columns that have been gnawed down, hourglass style, to three inches. “gribbles,” are bugs about the size of a pencil dot that look like tiny armadillos, and eat not only wood but also concrete. Like underwater termites, they devour wood. Teredos, which start life looking like tiny clams, grow up to be worms “as big around as your thumb, and nearly four feet long, with little triangular teeth,” says commercial diver Lenny Speregen. school on East 25th Street, and the Con Ed plant at 14th. Two kinds of hungry pests gnaw away at the pilings that hold up structures like the FDR Drive, the U.N. The Port Authority is studying solutions. If the tubes ever became exposed, they would be at risk for shifting, cracking, and terrorist threats. That current is scraping mud off the top of the Lincoln Tunnel where it never did before the underwater traffic tubes have lost 25 percent of their soil coverage in some spots. Battery Park City, built in the seventies, juts out into that flow, and since then, the current has been cutting a new channel, out toward the center of the river. The Hudson’s main current has, for all of recorded history, clung to lower Manhattan’s edge, skimming along the West Side. ![]() Here and on the following pages is your guide. Frank Nitsche stitched together their data, along with several other researchers’ work, into this elegant color-keyed map, which we’ve supplemented by talking with sea captains, historians, and the divers pictured above. This first GPS-era picture comes from the team at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who have methodically swept the lower Hudson with state-of-the-art sonar. What we did know came largely from random anecdotes, and depth soundings done the way Henry Hudson did them-by rope and lead sinker. That can lead a person to wonder: What, exactly, is down there? Until recently, we had patchy knowledge of what lies beneath the surface of one of the world’s busiest harbors. ![]() The steady transformation of New York’s waterfront from wasteland to playground means more of us are spending time along the city’s edge. Illustrations by Mark Nerys Photo: Matt Hoyle Visit the website at diver Lenny Speregen and NYPD detective John Drzal. The firm provided design, development, and media production on all aspects of the website, as well as filmed and produced the site’s short-form films depicting the lives of enslaved individuals. Historic Hudson Valley worked closely with C&G Partners, a leading multi-specialty design studio in New York, to bring the ambitious project to life. Stories in the interactive documentary include those of Caesar, the enslaved miller of Historic Hudson Valley today announces the launch of a new, groundbreaking interactive documentary website revealing the history of slavery in the colonial North. The interactive website includes interviews and contributions from African-American scholars, civil rights advocates, historians, Historic Hudson Valley staff, interpreters, and performers who share stories that had been assumed lost and illuminate long buried history. The website also covers topics such as how slavery was established in the North, how individuals resisted slavery, how abolition did not translate into freedom, and the lasting impacts of slavery in today’s America. People Not Property is an unparalleled resource and a useful for educators, students, and the public. People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North is a mix of original videos, interviews, reenactments and infographics, as well as photos, illustrations, and hundreds of artifacts and documents that tell the wrenching stories of America’s history of slavery in the northern colonies, from the Middle Passage to life in the American colonies. Exciting news from the Historic Hudson Valley with the launch of a groundbreaking interactive documentary website revealing the history of slavery in the colonial North. ![]()
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