tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post5341604631740625781..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Sunken Treasure off Elizabeth New JerseyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-63906748426784173552009-05-27T12:05:57.577+02:002009-05-27T12:05:57.577+02:00Our city Elizabeth is connected to Staten Island b...Our city Elizabeth is connected to Staten Island by the Goethals Bridge. As teenagers, for generations, the Jersey kids would drive over the bridge to do their first drinking and partying on Staten Island. In my day and always before that the drinking age in NJ was 21 and in NY it was 18.<br /><br />The Arthur Kill was pretty nasty in the 60s, but my father said in the 40s he and his friends swam in it and caught crabs in it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-20693664117588287772009-05-26T16:23:30.566+02:002009-05-26T16:23:30.566+02:00I know the Athur Kill. I did a lot of bizarre bike...I know the Athur Kill. I did a lot of bizarre bike trips on Staten Island and discovered a lot of strange places.<br />I remember the Arthur Kill as a strange marine graveyard of derelict ships rotting as the slipped beneath the oily waters.<br />There is also a strong current.<br />The abandoned boats are pretty interesting as they really are a history of the coastal waterways, now they are the apartment houses for hundreds of cormorants.<br />It seems a dangerous place to dive with som much junk on the bottom...microdothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-91309295930278910932009-05-26T15:51:33.798+02:002009-05-26T15:51:33.798+02:00Just to clarify, the article was from New York Mag...Just to clarify, the article was from New York Magazine, not the NY Times. <br /><br />The entire article is fascinating. New York Magazine is the only mag that I consistently read.Verdant Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139591223231428391noreply@blogger.com