Gansevoort Peninsula
Address:
Piers 52 & 53
Gansevoort St at 10th Ave
North River, Manhattan
FDNY Marine Co. One
Category: Shipping Trade Sites/Structures
From 1866 until 1885, Herman Melville worked out of this address as a customs agent, inspecting cargo arriving at the Gansevoort Street wharves. Currently the site of a former Department of Sanitation incinerator and marine transfer station.
