Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of the failed attempt to move the USS Intrepid away from its berth of twenty-four years. On November 5, 2006, with politicians and journalists on board, with bands playing, several tugboats pulled and groaned at the massive ship without any success. The aircraft carrier was stuck at Pier 86 in two and half decades of muck. The politicians and journalists disembarked and work commenced underwater to remove the 39,000 cubic yards of sediment. A month later, the ship was quietly, without fanfare, removed to dry dock in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Our first video on the walk across 46th Street, shot in the spring of 2007, tells this story.
In early October, after two years and a $115 million makeover, New York's floating museum was tugged back from Staten Island to Manhattan and it reopens tomorrow. A formal rededication ceremonty will take place on Veteran's Day next Tuesday.
Read about the new features of the refurbished museum.
Visit the website of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
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