wharves

NYC and NJ, for example, used to have hundreds of wharves all along the Hudson and East River for loading and offloading train ferries.

You'll often find these at wharves in Australia.

> The second phase will also include the construction of a loop in the Financial District for the F-Market & Wharves historic streetcar...

Old Ford would surely be replaced by Bow or Stratford today, in terms of labelling a rough area; I imagine that's probably due to the declined prominence/use of the canals & wharves.

Manhattan once had transportation needs for streets since it was ringed with wharves for seaborne and river commerce, had huge warehouses, railroad yards, factories, and all the facilities of a dynamic manufacturing city.

Medieval mixed walkable core, maybe not driveable at all; industrialish area down by the wharves now repurposed as offices and residential; Simcity-ish bit on the outskirts where somebody decided to build a grand scheme, like La Défense.

Way it worked in Sydney harbour 20+ years ago when I briefly worked on the wharves/tugs, was that the big ships had to have both local tugs, and a local pilot who would come aboard and run the ship.

"Thy Palace shall stand as that other's -- the spoil of a King who shall build." I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers.

"Thy Palace shall stand as that other’s - the spoil of a King who shall build." I called my men from my trenches, my quarries my wharves and my sheers.

Cripes, that introduction is laying it on a bit thick: > “…the photographer knows he’s getting the last shots of those wharves, steamers and warehouses before they are replaced by imagined hotels and marinas, the proto-blueprint for the new world dominated by leisure, tourism and heritage replicas.

Drawing on centuries of British common law precedents that justified regulations of privately owned ferries, wharves, and the like, the majority of the court declared that "when private property is devoted to a public use, it is subject to public regulation."" Is the "private property devoted to public use" a million-page website comprised of 100% UGC.