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Here are Todays Great Arthur Stone Deals

More Great Information on Arthur Stone:

Submarine City (bldgblog.blogspot)

[Image: New York Harbor, mapped in 1966, courtesy of NOAA].

Going through old links this morning, I found a story originally published in
_New York Magazine_ back in 2009 about the waters of New York City—a maritime
metropolis that, many forget, is also an archipelago.

"What, exactly, is down there?" the magazine asked, looking out at the urban
waters. "For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight
train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms." There are also the now
submerged ruins of "Coney Island’s great early theme parks," discarded in the
waters after the fun ran out.

[Image: New York Harbor, mapped in 1957, courtesy of NOAA].

It's an incredibly interesting article, as it happens, but those silver bars
might even inspire a few of you to change your life direction:

> In 1903, a barge in the Arthur Kill—the oily, mucky arm of the harbor
between Staten Island and New Jersey—capsized, spilling its cargo of silver
ingots. It carried 7,678 bars; about 6,000 were recovered soon after. The rest
are still down there. At today’s prices, they’re worth about $26 million.
Every now and then, someone tries to find them. So far, no luck.

_Hemispheres_, ...

bldgblog.blogspot

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