Seaport

New York's vanished waterfront : photographs from the Edwin Levick Collection

by Phillip Lopate

2004 181 pages eng

"By the end of the nineteenth century, the Port of New York was the center of a huge global maritime enterprise - a waterfront colossus astride Manhattan that encompassed hundreds of miles of piers and shore facilities. For much of the first half of the twentieth century, American's seaborne commerc…