Explore the Lehigh Valley Barge Museum in NYC harbor

A visit to the 1909 built Lehigh Valley freight barge. It has been converted to a museum about the history of the New York Harbor waterfront.

Today it is a museum and an event space but it was built as a way to move freight between railroad cars and ships in the harbor. These barges were unpowered and were shepherded around the harbor by railroad tugs.

The museum has exhibits about working in the harbor and also hosts theatre shows. In June they had the premiere of a never produced Arthur Miller play about workers in the harbor in the 1940’s.

The second half of the video is of the waterfront today as seen from a passenger ferry. There is still a good amount of waterfront freight today. It looks and functions very differently than it did in 1909.


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