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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

1740.994 - 1768.244 Josh Clark

And this was very quickly, it became evident how essential tugboats were for everything in New York, because there was coal coming from Lake Erie through the Erie Canal to the Hudson down to the harbor. And it would be spread all throughout Manhattan and all throughout New York. Food shipments came in by barge. Garbage went out by barge. New York operated on barges.

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