New York Harbor at Dusk is a photograph by Sarah Loft which was uploaded on November 9th, 2016.
New York Harbor at Dusk
This view was photographed from the observation deck of the new Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan, New York. Governors Island is in the foreground... more
by Sarah Loft
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New York Harbor at Dusk
Artist
Sarah Loft
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Photograph - Digitally Painted Photograph
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This view was photographed from the observation deck of the new Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan, New York. Governors Island is in the foreground with Brooklyn on the right connected to Staten Island on the left by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Per Wikipedia: New York Harbor, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world.
The aboriginal population of the 16th century New York Harbor, the Lenape, used the waterways for fishing and travel. In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape. A party of his sailors may have taken on fresh water at a spring called "the watering place" on Staten Island- a monument stands in a tiny park on the corner of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard at the approximate spot- but Verrazzano's descriptions of the geography of the area are a bit ambiguous. It is fairly firmly held by historians that his ship anchored at the approximate location where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down in Brooklyn today. In 1609 Henry Hudson entered the Harbor and explored a stretch of the river that now bears his name. His journey prompted others to explore the region and engage in trade with the local population.
In 1624 the first permanent European settlement was started on Governors Island, and eight years later in Brooklyn; soon these were connected by ferry operation.[5] The colonial Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, ordered construction of the first wharf on the Manhattan bank of the lower East River sheltered from winds and ice, which was completed late in 1648 and called Schreyers Hook Dock (near what is now Pearl and Broad Streets). This prepared New York as a leading port for the British colonies and then within the newly independent United States. In 1686, the British colonial officials gave the municipality control over the waterfront.
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