Each failed to remake this industrial area after the shipping piers disappeared and the garment district withered.
Mr. Baltrop assiduously documented the pre-AIDS gay-cruising culture centered on abandoned shipping piers on the West Side of Manhattan.
Younger and bigger, the ARMORY SHOW, installed on two humongous shipping piers at 55th Street and 12th Avenue, has done its part to eliminate the gap.
During the years Mr. Morrisroe was hustling, vamping and studying in Boston, a self-taught New York photographer named Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004) was documenting elicit erotic and aesthetic performances taking place in cavernous shipping piers along the Hudson River in Manhattan.
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York tried to convert shipping piers in Red Hook, Brooklyn, into luxury residences and tourist attractions, Ms. Pope called on other unions, neighborhood groups and local leaders to try to block the move.
This is a continuation of a battle that goes back 30 years, in which civic leaders in Brooklyn Heights fought to make a park on the shipping piers that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was ready to sell.
He gestures toward three compass points on the urban horizon, like a Robert Moses conjuring up a vast metropolitan vision of massive public works: highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, shipping piers and parks.
Anthony Bourdain, professional authentic and globe-trotting foodie, is seemingly trying to address the Zurich-ification of Manhattan by converting one of the largest shipping piers on the Hudson River into a mega-food market.
(Rosenberg)20110616 ★ Alvin Baltrop: 'Photographs 1965-2003' (closes on Saturday) All but unknown in his lifetime, the photographer Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004) focused much of his energy on documenting the illicit erotic and aesthetic life on abandoned shipping piers along the West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and '80s.
