Tag Archives: Hudson River

A couple more days of this and they’d need one of those Chinese icebreakers.

The Queen Of Hearts paddle-boat is usually moored at a West Village pier in between excursions hauling hundreds of partying homos around the New York harbor. But yesterday NY Waterway cops found the unmanned Queen bumping ashore near Weehawken, New Jersey. “Did you tie up the boat?” “Totally. Let’s see who’s at the Eagle.” (I think the homo cruises are …

Gothamist just posted this photo of the Circle Line tourism boat navigating the icy Hudson. Last week the Coast Guard started icebreaking operations on the Hudson, using a fleet of five ice cutters to clear a shipping channel, primarily for the tankers that are delivering heating oil to upstate residents. The Bayonne-based Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay has its own …