Pier Pressure

September 9, 2009 at 5:54 pm · Filed under New York City, Maritime Heritage, Working Waterfront and tagged: waterfront, On the Waterfront, Irish, longshoremen, port of New York, Father ­Corridan, organized crime

.On the Irish Waterfront
By James T. Fisher
Cornell University Press, 370 pages, $29.95A tough fight against corruption and the movie that tried to capture it all. It may be hard for some to imagine an era when the waterfronts clustered around New York City ­constituted America’s dominant commercial port. Yet as late as the 1950s the region’s 900 piers—spread over Manhattan’s West Side, Read the rest of this entry »

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