There are few Dutch names that survive around here - Spuyten Duyvil, Staten Island, Dyckman Street - and the Tappan Zee - a wide zee or bay 15 miles north of Manhattan. They are painting the bridge - which requires sandblasting it first. On a barge beneath the east tower is a set of generators and compressors that blast sand up and suck the residue down. We took a ride there yesterday on the Alice a 1963 Dyercraft 29. (click on pix to enlarge)
These Are the Ships Stuck Behind the Baltimore Key Bridge
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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge has brought navigation into
and out of the Port of Baltimore to a standstill. Behind the collapsed
bridge is l...
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