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something not too distant from that may
be shaping-up in Kingston, New York,
where there are perhaps fewer yuppies
and more of a population with both his-
torical and personal connections to the
water. A new undertaking has been quiet-
ly underway, involving the acquisition of
the old Cornell tugboat company build-
ing on Rondout Creek, the purchase of
local scrapyards for conversion, and the
old town dock to continue serving as a
public amenity for a renewed Kingston
waterfront. The new development would
incorporate the resources and much of
the vision of Steve Trueman's North
River Tugboat Museum, with which the
Harvey and the presence of North River
Historical Ship Society members would
be incorporated.
Whether this will lead to Mr. True-
man's "Mystic Seaport of Iron" reported
here last year remains to be seen, but the
early indicators are promising. A big
maritime festival is scheduled at
Kingston for August 19 and 20th, at
which antique tugs such as the Pegasus,
Chancellor, Urger, and others are expect-
ed to join the festivities, and the boda-
cious development plans revealed in
detail.
Meanwhile, back downstate, New
York City still nurses the black eye it
received when Bayonne, that small New
Jersey community barely visible from
Manhattan's residential towers, got the
cruise ship terminal. And now Kingston,
even further from the center of Manhat-
tan's universe, gets the history center and
all its traffic?
As much as the Hudson River Park has
been criticized by restoration-minded
motorheads, it is not, in John Krevey's
view, entirely a villain. "They have more
problems than people realize," he tells us,
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