On the West Side
I have here three views taken along the Hudson River from the mid-1990s. The first image, looking down the Hudson River toward the upper-harbor, could have been made around Pier 32 or just south of that. Towers One and Two of the World Trade Center are prominent in the left-hand side of the image of course. The Statue of Liberty as well as Ellis Island can be made out in the distance.
In the second image, Pier 32 foregrounds the ventilation building for the Holland Tunnel. (The pilings from Pier 32, sans deck, are still evident at this location today.) In the final image we see the south side of a building (that closely resembles its current state), now part of the sprawling athletic complex at Pier 40.
Three images by Richard Koenig; taken in March of 1995.
