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Brant season
It’s a sign of spring when Brant geese arrive on the North River, which they do every year around this time. These were spotted on Thursday near Pier 51.
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Unusual tow
Stasinos tug John Joseph had an interesting tow as they visited the mouth of the North River Wednesday. They were bringing the 87-foot Coast Guard cutter Finback down to Baltimore from points north and made a loop as far up as Pier 25 after coming down the Sound, through the Gate, and around the Battery…
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Ag products
The Greek-flagged tanker Irini came up the North River Thursday, headed for the Port of Albany where she tied up by the feed terminal there. AIS shows port of origin as Novorossiysk Russia and an intermediate stop in Fairless Hills on the Delaware. The routing suggests fertilizer or another agricultural product like molasses as possible…
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Morning prospect
Monday morning saw the Army Corps driftwood collector tug Gelberman southbound on the North River. A Reinauer ATB was anchored south of the bridge on the right and the Edgewater ferry was also visible southbound on the left. Inbound truck traffic was heavy on the upper level of the bridge, and the old convent is…
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Moving equipment
The tug William Brewster brought an equipment barge from the mid-channel coffer dam site off North River Pier 66 back to the Weeks yard in Jersey City on Tuesday. Weeks teams continue to work on the riverbed stabilization project in preparation for boring the Gateway rail tunnel under the river.
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Born in the 60s
Ellen McAllister, launched in 1967, came down the North River Monday running light and passing the Palisades Hospital in North Bergen. Ellen was returning to the harbor after helping to dock a bulk ship which had arrived at the Yonkers sugar house with a cargo of raw sugar from the Dominican Republic just before sunrise.
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What’s in that water?
The NYC DEP’s survey vessel HSV Osprey was on the North River this past week. The Osprey travels around the city’s 500 miles of waterways taking samples to regularly assess water quality and pollution.
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Salt delivery
Carver’s Helen came up the North River Thursday with a hopper barge loaded with, I believe, salt lightered off a bulk ship in from Egypt that was anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt supplies up north have been much depleted by the harsh winter. They passed the anchored Reinauer Twins/ RTC 104 ATB, a…
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Cabinet visitor
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, a 270-foot Newport-based medium security cutter, came in to North River Pier 88 on Wednesday morning, apparently to host an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A 45-foot response boat came up from Station New York on Staten Island to provide security as the motorcade pulled up on the pier.
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Practice makes perfect
The crew of NY Waterway’s Peter R Weiss ferry practiced man-overboard recovery with a dummy and a rescue net on off West 66th Street Monday.
North River Notes 