I was walking along the shore of Roosevelt Island in New York City, and came upon this ship hull embedded into the walkway: Google Maps.
I’ve tried searching for it, but hadn’t found anything about it.
Anyone has any ideas?
I gather it was fairly common to fill a derelict hull with rubble, sand, etc. to make a breakwater. There’s one south of Coos Bay, Oregon by a lighthouse, and I’ve seen one on the road to Anacortes (WA). I suspect the hull was used as a breakwater, and the property grew around it.
Actually, it’s not a real ship’s hull. Apparently, it’s a lookout/performance stage built to look like the prow of a ship. And it’s only a little over a decade old.
Oh, well that’s just cheating.
Up here we have real derelict ships! 
Obviously the phase/cloak device malfunctioned.
Thanks. I googled all sorts of stuff, and couldn’t find anything.
Originally, I thought it must be part of the maritime theme of Roosevelt Island, but it’s pretty …well… ugly. It’s not like something you’d build on a shore line to look like a ship (like you’d do in a playground), but isn’t. It looks like a rusted hulk embedded in the shore. As a performance space, it isn’t very big and there is no seats to watch whatever performance there is suppose to be. In fact, that very stretch of shore is pretty undeveloped. The Octogon is just north of this point, and there are a few residences south of this point.
I guess this was something who ever controls Roosevelt Island started but didn’t complete. Roosevelt Island has a lot of places that looked like they were built in the 1980s, but never quite finished. There are the ruins of an abandoned Small Pox hospital on the Southern tip. In the 1980s, the ruins were apparently stabilized in order to make them some sort of tourist attraction, but nothing was done after the initial stabilization. They simply sat their pretty unaccessible for years. Now, they’re doing a lot of work on the southern tip for a Roosevelt memorial, and the ruins are suppose to be incorporated in that.
I love the artistic improvements that the local youth have made to it.
Had it not been shortly before I started taking Anti-Insanity Pills, I’d say I knew a guy who lived near a Lou Ferigno’s restaurant on the North Side of Chicago that was in the shadow of a partial curve, three stories up, that might’ve been part of the proposed Crosstown Expressway.
I know better now. :rolleyes: