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Yesterday was the 17th Annual Tugboat Race and Competition. The other competitions are "Nose to nose pushing contests and line toss competition" but the main event is the race from the 79th Street Boat Basin to Pier 84 at 42nd Street—one nautical mile. Flickr user and Gothamist reader ennuipoet, who took these great photographs (more here), says, "The Ellen McCallister won with a time of just over six minutes."

              

For decades, one of the best ways for moving people and freight to and from New York over land was by rail. As the car, truck, and airplane took over the railroads declined their importance – unlike most of the railroads weren’t cut off by the Hudson River. Today, most of that rail infrastructure is gone, but a surprising amount of it is still existing albeit in a rotting relic state. You may even have seen it preserved in places like Gantry Plaza State Park or Liberty State Park along the shores opposite Manhattan. Or you may have seen it in action with the railcar barges of the New York New Jersey Rail working their way across the harbor or when you take a train from Hoboken Terminal.