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This 85-Year-Old Tugboat Is Why You’re Not Freezing Right Now

Tugboat operators N.D. Austin and Jean Barberis use the barge to help break up ice in Newtown Creek,

It was frigid on Thursday when the Shoofly  —  a 64-foot 1941 tugboat forged with American steel – set out along the Newtown Creek to carve up the ice sheets blocking barges from getting through.   The ice parted soundlessly before the 78-ton vessel as it made its way past the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects industrial […]

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