Lower Manhattan shoreline from Hudson River
Lower Manhattan shoreline from Hudson River
"Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River" Shot from a moving boat, the film depicts the Hudson River (i.e., "North River") shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan starts around Fulton Street and extends to Castle Garden Battery Park. It begins at one of the American Line piers (Pier 14 or 15, opposite Fulton Street) where an American Line steamer is docked, then on past various docks; can also see buildings of Lower Manhattan in BG, incl. the double towers of the Park Row, or Syndicate Building, the Surety Building & just to its right Trinity Church ( as a tug with a "C" on the stack passes in FG.) Pass several small steamboats docked , and the B.T. Babbitt Soap factory, then the Pennsylvania Railroad piers and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers, both with docked railroad car floats. The Whitehall Building (vertical, thin side to camera), followed by Pennsylvania Railroad Pier #1., then the United Fruit Company at New Pier 1. Pier A (with a clock tower); we pass very near to end of pier where there is a New York Harbor Police steam boat "Patrol" at its end. The New York City Fireboat House, then Castle Garden (the distinctive round structure). The camera then pans east along the Battery Park promenade: the Barge Office (with tower) is visible in the distance, and further out the Brooklyn shoreline with the grain elevators at Atlantic Avenue can be seen.