Expressions of interest in the container port, at Piers 9 to 11 in South Brooklyn, are not binding but would let officials judge the economic viability of maritime activities there.
The advent of container shipping made pier-based ports obsolete, and most commercial berths moved to the Port of Oakland and Port of Richmond.
There are two-up-two-downs in the shadows of block-long warehouses, cobblestone streets with highway views, fishermen casting lines off piers as container ships rumble by, and―my destination―a humble soccer and baseball pitch surrounded by housing projects.Semi-professional soccer teams began playing on this pitch in the late 1960s.
In the early 1980s a huge new port, under Nakhodka town jurisdiction, was built nearby; it established Nakhodka's prominence over Vladivostok as the largest and most highly mechanized port in eastern Russia, with major facilities for handling timber, coal, and especially containers, and with many new pier terminals for deepwater ships.
— Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier.
A recent study suggested that a container barge operation at a state pier in New London could offer shippers a cheaper alternative to using trucks to carry goods from the New York Harbor area to eastern Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Even the most earthbound landlubber knows that New York's waterfront has been dying now for more than 40 years, the fruit piers and the coffee piers, the sugar trade and container ports having either gone to New Jersey or the way of the fedora.
Two years ago, New Yorkers lined up to hike through shipping containers he stacked on a Hudson River pier as a mobile art cathedral for Gregory Colbert's majestic animal photography.
To promote this project before construction actually begins in October, the developer, Young Woo & Associates, has commissioned the Spanish architecture firm Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo to suspend 36 disused shipping containers from the ceiling of the pier building, forming a giant steel tapestry.
On Monday, we arrived at the pier and found our shipping container right there waiting for us — the e-mail on Friday had just been a miscommunication and there had been a mislabeling.
