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The Port Authority of NY/NJ has launched a new container-on-barge service linking Brooklyn’s Red Hook Container Terminal with the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey. The new route is part of an effort to reduce truck traffic and pollution in and near port terminals.
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JOC: The barge service is designed to bring goods to and from Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, rather than take them by road through New Jersey and New York.
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“We have a lot of interest, and everyone is asking the same question — when is it going to start?” he [Mike Stamatis, RHCT president and CEO] said. “Obviously, it has numerous benefits to the environment, numerous benefits to reducing the highway maintenance and repairs to roadways and bridges.
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And as more volume of cargo moves into the port, moving cargo in and out of terminal facilities by water will be a beneficial and efficient means of moving freight across the harbor.” Read more from JOC here…
posted by Mai Armstrong for the Working Harbor Committee
Rest in Peace Sunny Balzano, owner of Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn who passed away suddenly Thursday, leaving the neighborhood waterfront community mourning his loss.
We offer our deepest sympathies to his patrons and neighbors, family and friends. Bon Voyage, Mr. Red Hook! Fair winds and following seas…
NPR: Sunny Balzano’s modest watering-hole in Brooklyn was a throwback to another time. It was known simply as Sunny’s, after the beloved bartender and raconteur who transformed a faded longshoremen’s bar into a local institution. He died Thursday at the age of 81, just weeks after the publication of Sunny’s Nights, a new book about his life and times.
Back in 1934, Red Hook was home to a thriving port and ship-building industry. “There’d be 10,000 people that worked across the street. We were the closest restaurant and bar. And we were one of I think like 40. This is the only one left of all of the old ones, you see?” [Sunny said]. Read, and listen to more from NPR here…
posted by Mai Armstrong for the Working Harbor Committee
