Unexpectedly, though, the wharf side of the World Financial Center bustled.
Iron ore, set to become Australia's biggest export, fills scores of blue containers on the wharf side.Five years ago a shipload of iron ore bought 2,200 flatscreen TVs, says Glenn Stevens, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
The next morning, we headed for breakfast at Café Nautica on the wharf-side.
Dick Bird's telegraph pole strewn shanty town is arresting to the eye, too, not least when the claustrophobic clusters of wharf-side dwellings part to reveal an entire hillside of twinkling lights – a kind of human anthill.
For the final month, head overland to Durban through the Drakensberg mountains, then rumble along the Shipwreck Coast to Cape Town, where the townships are juxtaposed with swanky wharf-side developments and the paintbox-coloured houses of Bo Kaap.
Before this I was working wharf-side as a contractor, tracking the containers.
His wharf-side townhouse in the Charlestown Navy Yard is on the market for $1.599 million.
With only the clothes on her back and a single trunk containing her things, a little money, and the violin that her cherished father gave her after having been given it by his father, Leda moves into a conventillo, named La Rete, in the poor wharf-side neighborhood of La Boca.
In fact, the brand new Jubilee Wharf, a creek-side development comprising flats for local people to rent, 12 craft workshops, a public hall, a nursery and shops, might well be the greenest British building to date.
He also questioned the mayor's support for the towers proposed for Convoys Wharf, on the south side of the Thames, which he criticised for its "relatively poor accessibility" and for providing only 15% affordable units.
Everything we've done before has been on the wharf by the river side, or on location or in the studios, and it's full of people, there's lots of activity, you know, it's in the centre of Whitechapel or on the docks, so this is completely different.
