May 28, 2009
Tugs & dry docks: Hidden Harbor Tours set '09 dates
 The not-for-profit Working Harbor Committee has released the 2009 dates for its popular summer cruises that take in not just the sites of sparkling Americana but also the rusted industrial past and what’s left of the working waterfronts of New York and New Jersey.
The narrated Hidden Harbor Tours are set for June 15, July 14, August 18 and September 15.
(Update: The July date was originally scheduled for July 21.)
Billed as an insider’s tour, guests will include staff from the Port Authority of NY/NJ, the major shipping terminal operators in the harbor, and the New York City Empire Development Corporation’s Maritime Division. They’ll tell you all about the sights — from the giant container ships and tugboat yards to the graving docks and oil terminals on the harbor.
The tour boat — Circle Line’s Zephyr — will travel from Manhattan’s Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport to Brooklyn Piers, Buttermilk Channel, Erie Basin, Upper New York Harbor, Kill Van Kull, Port Newark, Port Elizabeth, Military Ocean Terminal and Global Marine Terminal, Statue of Liberty and the tip of Manhattan.
See NewYorkology’s Hidden Harbor Tour pictures from 2007.
Tickets (which include one free drink) are $29 for adults; $21 for seniors; and $17 for children under 12.
Picture credits: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Tugs rev up for annual Hudson River race on Sunday
Industrial Brooklyn waterfront on most endangered list
Down in Brooklyn’s Dry Dock No. 1 with Mary Whalen
May 28, 2009 3:09 PM in Architecture, Downtown, Kids, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours
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