North River Pier 66

North River Pier 66 serves as a living museum of New York City maritime history. You are standing near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Float Transfer Bridge, a rare survivor from an era when freight arrived in Manhattan not by truck, but by rail cars rolled onto massive barges in New Jersey and floated across the Hudson. These bridges were engineered to rise and fall with the river tides, allowing the tracks on the barges to align perfectly with the tracks on the shore for a smooth transition into the city warehouses.