By Teri Shore Bluewater Network Published: April, 2001 Ferry riders were thrilled to recognize the dark hulking form and unmistakable spouting of a gray whale on the cruise from Oakland into San Francisco one February morning. How many people get to watch whales on their way to the office? More California gray whales than ever […]
Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT
New $30 Million Terminal for Hudson River Ferries
Published: April, 2001 New Jersey Transit said yesterday that it would spend $30 million to build a new ferry terminal in Weehawken to help handle the growing commuter traffic across the Hudson River. The agency will grant a 32-year lease of the new terminal to NY Waterway, a pirvately owned commuter ferry operate that carries […]
Bay Crossings Riders of the Tides
By Christine Cordi Published: April, 2001 I came around the bend and suddenly there he was. His jawline was stronger than I had imagined. His body, squatter. All the better to glide under low hanging branches. There were no crowds, just the two of us, eye to eye in the San Diego rain. Jaguar and […]
San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center Presents Hot Music in the Cool Summer Jazz Series
Published: April, 2001 San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center, located on the waterfront in the heart of the city’s Financial District, in conjunction with SFJAZZ, will be showcasing the Embarcadero Center Summer Jazz Series, a series of free noontime jazz concerts from August 9 through September 27,2001. The Embarcadero Center Summer Jazz Series will feature local, world-class […]
Working Waterfront
Steven Richardson Published: April, 2001 I’ve waited on tables here at Lapis in the afternoon for the last five months. I’ve waited on tables since I was sixteen so altogether I’ve been waiting on tables for twenty years. First time here on the waterfront. Well, actually no, because I worked at Boulevard, which is almost […]
North Bay / Delta
Published: April, 2001 So much a part of the history of Contra Costa County, its Delta cities also have an influence today and will tomorrow. While there is little room left in Central County, space is available and affordable for industrial, commercial and residential development in East Contra Costa County. As new business comes, so […]
East Bay Bay Crossings Patrick’s Journal
By Patrick McCabe’s Alameda Journal Published: April, 2001 The four container cranes for Berths 55 and 56 arrived at the Port of Oakland on October 24, 2000 from China. They will be operational by the time this goes into print, and will be given a fanfare of trumpets. They are the largest container cranes in […]
East Bay HAWAIIAN CHIEFTAIN
Published: April, 2001 The 103' west coast square-rigger, HAWAIIAN CHIEFTAIN, will be back in the San Francisco Bay, sailing in under the Golden Gate Bridge on March 14, 2001 after spending the winter in southern California. The ship is a replica of a 1790’s northern European trading vessel. From November through March each year she […]
Bay Crossings Journal
By Bill Coolidge Published: April, 2001 The tide is coming in, swirling movement in coastal waters lapping on shore as gull and egret sun themselves. The cormorant slowly unfolds her wings, standing on an abandoned dock on the lee side of this island, is drying her feathers. Into this quiet repose comes a splash, a […]
Bay Crossings Bus Rider’s Journal
By Steve Geller Published: April, 2001 Steve Geller works as a software engineer for UC Berkeley Space Science Lab. He’d ridden buses previously in Portland and Palo Alto, but when he came to Berkeley and looked at the traffic, not to mention the daily drive up the hill to the Space Science Lab, he became […]