Wow – there was alot of ice
flowing by Roosevelt Island today
as ships maneuvered their way on the
East River.
More NYC Freezepocalypse pictures of Roosevelt Island East River Ice Floes from previous post. According to the East River Ferry:
All this ice in the river has been annoying, right? Totally. We thought we’d explain (to the best of our ability) what’s been going on.
The funny thing about the East River (technically not even a river, but an estuary) is that the tide changes multiple times per day, enabling ice to enter from different major bodies of water, making it nearly impossible to predict what it’s going to do, or where it’s going to be. In the winter, when it’s so cold that there are large chunks of ice floating in the river, one minute N. Williamsburg could be totally socked in by ice and (literally) another 20 minutes later, DUMBO could be experiencing the same problems, but N. Williamsburg is OK…
UPDATE 2/25 – Diana Desrocher shares this great picture of a ship passing Roosevelt Island through the East River ice yesterday afternoon
Image From Diana Desrocher and Rossanna Ceruzzi shows us a duck
Image From Rossana Ceruzzi trying to deal with the East River ice this morning. UPDATE 2/25 8:30 PM – Eva Bosbach shows us the ice flowing
Image From Eva Bosbach on the Queens side
Image From Eva Bosbach of Roosevelt Island.