The Dilapidated Piers off the West Side Highway: NYC

absk8noodles: 4th Feb 2003 - 17:37 GMT

i remember going to those piers as a kid for the fourth of july with my family.we moved one year before those piers really collapsed.seeing those pictures reminds me of good times.

Peter: 4th Feb 2003 - 19:05 GMT

theyre still very beautiful, even in their current state. glad you liked the shots.

aklsealark: 20th Sep 2003 - 13:27 GMT

Love these photo's of the piers. They've been a source of wonder to me for many years. Thank you for having this website with these great pix's.

-Audrey

Anonymous (cpe-68-173-202-245.nyc.res.rr.com): 13th Sep 2005 - 19:03 GMT

didnt know they had carfloats on the west side.....what cross street??

harold: 13th Sep 2005 - 20:52 GMT

you should get into the old terminal in hoboken and snap some shots. unless they finally fixed that place up

anon (cache-rtc-ad06.proxy.aol.com): 13th Sep 2006 - 02:02 GMT

at barnes and noble there is a book on old new york that has a picture of the railyards in 1930 ,s that will show the way it looked back then I dont know the name of the book but I remember seeing the picture

Bekkah: 15th May 2007 - 01:41 GMT

"I could fall in love with Jersey at sunset, but I leave the veiw to the rats, and tiptoe.. back."
-Ani DiFranco
Nice pics.

Berry Parsons: 29th Oct 2009 - 03:08 GMT

We came into New York in 1956 on the SS President Monroe, which was sailing from Italy (Leghorn, I think) -- arrived around the end of June (I was 9 years old). What pier would that have been?