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Erie Lackawanna

Any of you old enough to remember what this was, Erie Lackawanna? It was a railroad, now long-defunct, that ran through the mid-Atlantic states. And operated a ferry service across the Hudson, from Manhattan into six great gaping arched terminal docks in Hoboken. Until the bridges, tunnels and finally the PATH train killed off the ferries, and the terminal was abandoned, and to those of us on the Manhattan side the gaping, for decades, looked very different. Until another decade ago, when the ferries came back. And a few years ago, when they -- and who "they" are, I don't know, but I'll check it out and report back -- started renovated the terminal. I've been watching this work as I sit by the river, and it's moving slowly but steadily. Ove the summer they put up what I think must be a cooling tower, but it's clad in brown metal panels with Victorian-ish detail, as in keeping as they could make it with the terminal's late 19th C. ornament. And then last week when I came back from St. Louis I was delighted to see they'd put a clock on top of it. And today when I got to the river in the fog and rain, it was still dark enough that I found lit-up letters running vertically down the thing that say LACKAWANNA. Whoever's in charge of this renovation gets this week's WELL DONE! prize.


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