Friday's front page New York Times featured a striking, above the fold photograph: a picture of a floating US AIR airliner floating in the Hudson River with hoards of passengers standing on its partially submerged wings. A lone boat was in the photograph: a NY WATERWAYS ferry which had just arrived. Indeed, the first vessels to respond to the site were vessels from NY WATERWAYS. These were first responders by definition. That evening NJ Governor Jon Corzine held a press conference. He referenced the ferry crews by saying, "Their first response was to make sure that those who were on … Continue reading The Takeover of New York Harbor