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Dine in relaxed elegance in the heart of the South Street Seaport. Yankee Clipper's Wavertree Room The Yankee Clipper, one of South Street Seaport's finest restaurants, recently dedicated an opulently refurbished room to honor the historic Wavertree, a tall ship now berthed just outside the restaurant's multipaned windows. The dedication of the Wavertree Room goes beyond its physical proximity to its namesake, however, for the room actually once served as the office of Baker, Carver & Morrell, general agents who represented the Wavertree in the 1800s. -VIA PORT OF NY-NJ, March 1986
"HOW FAR FROM THE SEA CAN A SAILOR EVER BE..... " LONG ISLAND'S newest luxury "Country Inn" right on the water at PORT JEFFERSON harbor. The expansion of our current to a full scale 75 boat marina will enhance your stay in the antiques-filled suites and rooms with the panoramic balconies overlooking the harbor activity.
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"So where did you take him?" "Around the island, of course." It was our trustee and development chairman Dick Morris, explaining how he had introduced yet another visitor to the wonders of New York City. And when he said, "around the island," I knew he meant that literally-circling Manhattan via the waterways that surround it, via the North (Hudson), East and Harlem rivers, aboard one of the Circle Line yachts that make this run daily during the summer months. Indeed, though one always pictures New York as a seaport city facing outward on the broad reaches of the Atlantic Ocean-making one terminus of what has been in recent centuries the world 's busiest sea trade route-it is also in fact a centerpiece of interlacing waterways reaching out east, west, south and north, and ultimately inland to the Great Lakes. In following these waterways to explore the shoreside settlements, you will find you are picking up the threads ofa common culture, a waterman 's world that flourishes on the shining river pathways that reach out from under the shadow of the oblivious skyscrapers of Manhattan. A good place to start in on this is Phil and Carol Rando's Harborview Restaurant, just catercorner from the Fulton Fireboat House in Brooklyn, where for five adventurous years the Society maintained its headquarters. Phil ' s family came from the Lipari Islands off the north coast of Sicily, and the late Anthony Rando, whose family lighterage business has been noted before in these pages, was Phil's uncle. From the window of the Harborview, which used to be a longshoreman 's cafe, you can see the Brooklyn Bridge, the ships berthed across the way at South Street Seaport and the East River opening out into the Upper Bay. Heading south down that track, if you tum westward past Staten Island, you 'II come to Perth Amboy, facing out on Raritan Bay. And there an extraordinary museum/restaurant awaits-a grand transformation of a nineteenth-century drill hall, with model square-riggers and Gilded Age battleships, figureheads, brass clocks, binnacles and all kinds of nautical gear, and a painting of the Battle of Trafalgar on old panelling from a Scottish pub. It's called the Armory, and seated outdoors on the dock you can guzzle oysters while watching tankers go by on a slow bell, or listen to piano music on the top floor, which gives a sweepimg view of this fascinating and little-kruown part of the waterfront world. Or g1oing up the East River (which is SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1988