The oft photographed Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 pylons, a vestige of the many piers that lined both the east and west waterfront of the East River are a link to the past. All the water front warehouses that were located here just south of Fulton Ferry and the iconic Brooklyn Bridge are gone, replaced by a wonderful recreational and residential oasis on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront. I chose for this image taken back in July of last year to concentrate on the pylons themselves as usually the images taken include the lower Manhattan skyline with the pylons playing the leading lines role towards the skyline. I took a closer more detailed image of said pylons, used an exposure of 60 seconds which makes the water appear as frozen. As a lad, I and my friends would often venture onto the dilapidated piers that once lined the West New York and Weehawken Hudson River waterfront in New Jersey, belonging to Ford Motor Company, New York Central Railroad and other commercial occupants that had abandoned the waterfront before I was born in 1963. We would venture out on these dangerous piers, the wood rotted, daring each other to see who would go out the furthest. Was it safe? By no means, but it is things boy and girls do at a certain age, seeking independence and pushing boundaries. All those piers with few exceptions are completely gone as the New Jersey waterfront is a mecca of costly luxurious residences.
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