• Tide and Current Taxi: 2006

Duke Riley called me Wednesday night with a top secret water taxi mission: row to the abandoned Greenpoint Terminal Market.

All the old land passages were blocked off securely after the fire. But I have always like to come by water anyway.

This would be the first time I had been back to the area since it burned almost to the ground in May. From the water, it looked almost the same.

We pulled up alongside the docks,

and found a place to stash the boat.

We ate some dinner before exploring the building.

A few steps into the ruins, and I couldn’t believe my eyes.

All the buildings and spaces that I remembered, were piles of brick.

But these were the piles that Duke was looking for.

For years someone had been storing bundles of cloths inside the abandoned warehouses of the Terminal Market.

Now they were piled in mountains on the cement. The cloths seemed to be the only thing left after the fire.

Duke had an idea to salvage some of the half burnt remains and make a fashionable ’boutique’.

The singed 70’s relics could be the next big thing.

Duke hunted through the piles,

while I started laying out some possibilities.

Duke’s favorite: half long sleeve, half short sleeve.

It was late and I had to get up early the next day.

So we took the cloths back to the boat.

What a good mission – perfect for the capabilities of the tide and current taxi!