According to one pier worker: "they fill them [barges] up in Manhattan and then they bring them over to Staten Island".
Soon they were ushered toward the pier, where rescue workers stood with hundreds of onlookers, all just staring at the smoke blowing to the south.
After the North allowed the South to build a resort here in this city on the Sea of Japan six years ago, it insisted that guests stay at a floating hotel docked at a pier and that all workers be foreigners, fearing North Koreans would be contaminated by capitalist visitors.
It's hard to lay 1,600 feet of pipe off of a beach (to carry municipal rain runoff out to sea) when there's no pier nearby to run workers and supplies to the barge that floats the cranes.
Unfortunately for Mr. Rivera but luckily for the Department of Transportation, which owns the vessel and uses it to take repair workers to piers not accessible by land, the hapless sailor ran out of fuel 200 yards from the spot near St . Georgewhere the boat had been docked.
In "A Morning Snow," from 1910, a man holding the hand of a boy walks through the white snow along the ice-covered river; leisure mingles peacefully with workers at the pier, ships busy along the Palisades.
It was built by John Jacob Astor in 1887 to house workers for nearby piers and what was then a new produce market.
"It now takes longer to get from Manhattan to Red Hook than it does to get to Philadelphia," said Ms. Williams, whose group has already lured 1,100 companies and 23,000 workers to the piers and warehouses of southwest Brooklyn, most of them in Sunset Park, a neighborhood served by bus, subway and a 10-minute ferry ride to Lower Manhattan.
In the countdown to Hurricane Sandy last month, construction workers on a teeming pier in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, rushed to strap down materials and move forklifts and excavators into half-built structures to shield them from the tempest to come.
