Calzone
Gear Whore #1
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- Nov 11, 2008
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- The Gateway To The Hudson Highlands
Phil and I saw a NYC Water Taxi that seemed lost emerging from under the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge last Saturday when shooting in LIC.
This got me to think about trying to do a shoot-out to explore Newtown Creek from a unique perspective. For more than 4 years I have explored and shot in this industrial area when I lived in LIC.
Basically its an unihabited area where NYC started dumping raw sewage as early as 1853, it is a place where 1/3 of NYC's sewage is processed every day, it's a place where also 1/3 of NYC's garbage is processed, and it is the location of an oil spill estimated to be three times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill occured over a time period of decades if not a century.
As early as 1975 the Coast Guard reported oil seeping into the creek, but only very recently has Newtown Creek been declared a superfund site. Some people say it is the most polluted waterway in the U.S., and in some places you can smell the oil.
Anyways I contacted NYC Watertaxi about doing a charter, and at this point I need more info from them to see how far we can go with this. Newtown Creek extends 4 1/2 miles inland, but I don't know how far we will be able to navigate inland. I figure if we can get 18-20 people signed up we might be able to do a private charter. Maximum capacity of their smallest vessel is 35-38.
As far as costs go they charge $65.00 for these fall foiliage tours that go up the Hudson. Perhaps if we reduce our trip to a few hours we might be able to get the costs down to about $30.00 a person. Anyways this is my target zone. Please feel free to add suggestions, comments and ideas.
To save money we can board in Hunters Point in LIC. If we do the boating in the morning I can take you on an extensive walk (death march) into the bowels of New York to further explore LIC on land.
Cal
This got me to think about trying to do a shoot-out to explore Newtown Creek from a unique perspective. For more than 4 years I have explored and shot in this industrial area when I lived in LIC.
Basically its an unihabited area where NYC started dumping raw sewage as early as 1853, it is a place where 1/3 of NYC's sewage is processed every day, it's a place where also 1/3 of NYC's garbage is processed, and it is the location of an oil spill estimated to be three times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill occured over a time period of decades if not a century.
As early as 1975 the Coast Guard reported oil seeping into the creek, but only very recently has Newtown Creek been declared a superfund site. Some people say it is the most polluted waterway in the U.S., and in some places you can smell the oil.
Anyways I contacted NYC Watertaxi about doing a charter, and at this point I need more info from them to see how far we can go with this. Newtown Creek extends 4 1/2 miles inland, but I don't know how far we will be able to navigate inland. I figure if we can get 18-20 people signed up we might be able to do a private charter. Maximum capacity of their smallest vessel is 35-38.
As far as costs go they charge $65.00 for these fall foiliage tours that go up the Hudson. Perhaps if we reduce our trip to a few hours we might be able to get the costs down to about $30.00 a person. Anyways this is my target zone. Please feel free to add suggestions, comments and ideas.
To save money we can board in Hunters Point in LIC. If we do the boating in the morning I can take you on an extensive walk (death march) into the bowels of New York to further explore LIC on land.
Cal
