Two years after "On the Waterfront" came out, Mr. Hanley became a longshoreman and has been one since.
'Where it rains for at least 275 days of the year,' says the second, which I am reading shivering in a cafe on Bergen's waterfront, staring out into the kind of downpour that has animals lining up in pairs.
And talking of berserk - which, as we all know, comes from Old Norse berserkr (ber for bear and serkr for shirt), denoting an ancient Nordic warrior who has, to put it mildly, lost it, working himself up into an insane frenzy of aggression - Rivka has now gone berserk on the Mall of Norway on Flåm's small waterfront, checking out everything in an ever widening Viking rampage.
Built in haste after the discovery of California gold in 1848 and rebuilt in a bigger hurry after the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco is riven with all manner of concrete crannies, quaint cobblestone back ways and remote waterfront hide-outs like the Ramp, a sunset margarita spot whose front deck literally drops into the bay.
Like a caterpillar undergoing a metamorphosis, the down-and-out industrial waterfront of Yonkers is shedding its old skin.
Today, the Green's Farms waterfront is decked out in multimillion-dollar estates along the renowned Beachside Avenue.
Most foreigners who come to Stockholm primarily seek out waterfront neighborhoods like Djursholm, Stocksund and Lidingo, which have easy access to international schools and Arlanda international airport.
Keith Meyers, The Times's foremost chronicler of the waterfront, was sent out in 1991 to record the derelict shoreline of industrial Brooklyn.
The corps plans to study whether to build a barrier along the waterfront and pump out the water that gets behind that wall.
Keith Meyers, The Times's foremost chronicler of the waterfront, was sent out in 1991 to record the derelict shoreline of industrial Brooklyn (above).
