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22 June 09: A lovely evening for sailing, the photo essay
 As promised, here it is, Monday at the latest. Thursday night, Penn Design offered a three hour tour (a three hour tour) of the Delaware River and a platform for the school's clinical arm, Penn Praxis, to showcase its civic vision. Executive director Harris Steinberg rocked the mic from roughly Allegheny to Oregon -- the subject area of the plan -- and Captain Lucky's SS Ben Franklin sailed a hundred or so of us including Olin landscape architect Cindy Sanders, former Planning Commission director Craig Schelter, Penn Treaty Park (and online Museum) guru John Connors, Claflen Associates principal George Claflen Jr, stowaways like myself and lots of Penn people from the marina at Dave & Buster's up to the Betsy Ross Bridge and back down to the Navy Yard before returning to dock. Harris' son Henry was along for the ride, and his photos have been posted at Plan Philly HERE. 
This morning's post on the Conrail-Anderson yards on the Port Richmond-Kensington riverfront was pretty timely, if unintentionally timely. Tom Walsh -- who was also on the
cruise -- reported last week that Anderson's former Cramp site was being readied to go to market. The ~60
acre vacant site, next to the 200+ acre vacant Conrail site, and just up from the still-vacant but active 22 acre Sugar House site, were all major items of interest fresh out
of the dock. As was the nearly 400 acre Petty's Island, recently donated to the state of New Jersey from Venezuela-owned Citgo, directly across the river from Anderson and
Conrail.Thursday, you'll probably recall, was one of the approximately 64 consecutive days of cloudiness and outright downpour. It did that for parts of the cruise, turning the River's surface into a gray Pollock canvas in motion; for the rest of the ride, the sky turned grayer and darker as the daylight dwindled. A challenge for the photographers on board, but a welcome one, considering any reason to board a boat on the Delaware is a good one. These are my efforts -- 79 photos spread across eight pages. Hope you enjoy. BEGIN. –B Love |
