Arthur Kill.
It must take a lot of effort to move a whole couch into a waterway, no?
It must take a lot of effort to move a whole couch into a waterway, no?
Arthur Kill, the harbor between Staten Island and New Jersey, is home to 1600 bars of silver, each weighing 100 pounds. How’d they get there? In 1903, a barge capsized, spilling its cargo. Some were recovered, but the rest are still down there and valued at about $26 million.
How does a city wind up with a graveyard of tugboats? You can pursue the real answer or invent your own.