Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge
Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge
"Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River." Film of East River shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan shot from a boat starting at about Pier 5 (the New York Central Pier) and going up to just south of the Brooklyn Bridge. The film begins at Pier 5, barges docked at and around Coenties Slip . We go past piers w/ various ships and boats incl. steam tugs, a wooden hull barkentine with box barges alongside, a docked iron hull sailing ship, an ocean steamer, a derrick lighter with stacked barrels docked at the end of a pier in FG, etc. In the Wall Street Ferry slip (between Piers 15 and 16) is a double-ended steam commuter boat (the ferry is just to left of row of billboards (illegible) on Pier 16. On front of Piers 16 & 17 "NY & Cuba Mail SS Co." and there is a steamship and quite a few other boats around them. The Mallory Line piers, with one of their steamers on the south side of one of the Mallory Piers. The camera begins panning to rt. out over the East River ; can see the fog bell at the end of pier 21 and pans along Brooklyn Bridge (built late 1880s)