Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find out about the city’s efforts to remove abandoned boats from its 520-mile shoreline. We’ll also get details on Chobani’s plans for a billion-dollar plant in upstate New York.
Credit…Daniel Avila/New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
The city’s shipwreck hunter, Nate Grove, described his finds like this: “No pirate ships, no treasure chests, no doubloons, no corpses.”
He has found what he expected to find, pleasure boats, 78 in the last 12 months, mostly 20- to 30-footers whose owners probably couldn’t afford them anymore. The owners left them where they ran aground or sank in not-very-deep water, and simply walked away.
Grove is the Parks Department official behind a push to clear abandoned boats from around the city — vessels that have been left on or near the shoreline.
There are a lot of derelict boats — more than 800, the city says. There is also a lot of shoreline, 520 miles in all, which Grove likes to point out is more than the shorelines of Boston, Miami, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle combined.