by Ðauntless
Whats left of the Bing'.
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carajul wrote:I suggest using historicaaerials.com you can do layered and comparison overview shots by year. Everything was mud fields by the mid-1970s and by the 1990s was developed into houses and offices. I guess that there was more money to be made by CR in selling real property than running trains.The question is: what percentage of the North Jersey Hudson waterfront railyards were allocated to:
Ðauntless wrote:Whats left of the Bing'.WOW, when did it start to fall apart like that? I mean it had been in use as a restaurant only a few years ago.
Steve F45 wrote:I have some friends in Edgewater who gave me the skinny on the state of the Bing. Its completely damaged beyond repair, but it is not yet enough of an environmental hazard for the goverment to give the current owners a subsidy to remove it. Pretty much, the current owners don't want to pony up the cash to remove it as it cannot be floated away in its current state due to hull breaches and being grounded in the mud. I just wonder what Milton Friedman would have to say about this bizarre Goverment/Economics circumstance.Ðauntless wrote:Whats left of the Bing'.WOW, when did it start to fall apart like that? I mean it had been in use as a restaurant only a few years ago.