LI City Float Bridges
#'s 1-5   Plan c.19xx?



All that's left at Hunter's Point 2000 - looking east

A LIRR TellTale Story:  This happened to my friend Jeff Skinner when he started in LIRR freight service back in 1917. While riding a freight, he climbed up the ladder on the side of a boxcar and his head came up a little too high over the top of the car just as a telltale came by and whacked him square on the forehead. He said the telltale was so full of soot from years of steam locomotives blowing under it, that it took him a week of scrubbing to get the black mark off his forehead, the soot was so deeply embedded in the skin! He was thankful, though, that he came up when he did. Had he come up AFTER the telltale I would have never heard the story or met Jeff for that matter!  Dave Keller

LIRR Float Barge #20: Perhaps on its way to LI City, almost all of the LIRR freight once moved across the East and Hudson River crossings from the LI City and Bay Ridge float bridge facilities.   

Guard Crossing Shack: L.I. City Freight Yard at 5th Street(?) entrance looking west toward float bridges. c.1910