Donjon tugs Douglas J (4,800 HP) and Paul Andrew (1,200 HP) brought the company’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Thursday afternoon, passing Guttenberg on the way back to the harbor after heavy lift work at the old Yonkers sugar refinery. My guess is that work there probably relates to decommissioning the sugar plant which closed at the end of last year after operating in that location for over 100 years and used to take deliveries by ship and barge around 40 times per year.

The city wants to see the property redeveloped for residential and public use and Bisnow reported in April that the 33-acre site has now been listed for sale by the owners, American Sugar Refining. This means one less node on the Hudson River marine highway, and leaves the wallboard plant in Buchanan and fuel terminal in Peekskill as the only working waterfronts on the Westchester shoreline aside from a handful of boatyards for smaller vessels.