Sentence examples for its working waterfront from inspiring English sources

Manhattan gave up its working waterfront long ago.

PORTLAND, Me. — Even as this city has evolved into a showplace for locavore restaurants and edgy designers, its working waterfront has remained a point of pride.

Despite reports of its passage, the working waterfront is actually still working, if not exactly thriving, these days, and its populace - in Hawaiian shirts, khakis, high heels and patterned summer dresses - came out to celebrate the life of one of its own while, at the same time, putting to rest the exaggerated rumors of its demise.

It has a working waterfront, even if there hasn't been much work lately, and streets full of splendid Victorian houses that rise from downtown in a way that is likely to reward a casual glance out the kitchen window with a magnificent view of the river and a couple of freighters and the hills of Washington State on the northern bank.

"This project's about taking a former military base as a peace dividend and transforming it into a facility that will not only deliver much-needed jobs to Oakland that are good-paying jobs, but it was also about restoring a working waterfront".

"It's sad," he said, "that the working waterfront has atrophied to the point where we sometimes feel like an endangered species".

But just as it is misleading to think of Montero's as a museum displaying artifacts of a long-vanished culture, so too is it surprisingly inaccurate to think of this working waterfront as a thing of the past.

If lobstering falters, even briefly, he said, "this working waterfront issue would be a critical problem".

Summertime is not an easy season on what remains of New York's working waterfront.

"In many ways this is an exhibit about what happens in the working waterfront after a hurricane".

That and a passion to do something good for the working waterfront in America".