The Guardsmen rushed to the pier aboard trucks and grabbed hoses and axes while the New York City fireboats Fire Fighter and John J. Harvey as well as Coast Guard vessels doused the freighter.
I'm dangling my legs over the edge of the pier, half-expecting something to grab me and pull me under.
The famous pier can wait -- go like a local and grab a table at Back on the Beach, at the totally public Annenberg Beach House.
Could the space shuttle Atlantis, which grabbed hold of the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, wind up parked on a pier in the Hudson River five blocks from Times Square?
Shortly before 11 A.M., they put windbreakers on over their sweatshirts and fleeces, grabbed two twelve-packs of Bud Light, kissed their girlfriends, drove to the pier off Madaket Harbor, and trooped aboard.
The fear of my immediate death crept in when we arrived and he immediately grabbed my arm to pull me closer to the edge of the pier.
I grabbed a piña colada, housed in a coconut and joined everyone by the pier to look on.
"Our famous pier," she said.
There are patrols on the fishing pier.
We walk down to the pier.
