There, parked in a dead-end street, Cranston studied a dilapidated pier.

The Maritol's commercial berth is eerily quiet, overlooking the wooden foundations of a dilapidated pier and the East Bay hills across the bay.

When we got there a decade earlier, there was nothing there but the waters of the Hudson River and 13 abandoned, dilapidated piers falling into those waters.

Colonel Price-Jones felt eyes watching him as he walked along the deserted and dilapidated pier toward the dark junk that was moored at the end.

Small forests have sprouted on its dilapidated piers and tidal pools have formed between them.

One interest group after another says it prefers the present dilapidated piers to the dirt and noise involved in creating new vistas and uses.

When he saw the dilapidated piers, 840 feet long and column free, he had but one thought, he said: ideal for ice skating.

And I've seen lots of goldenrod, thistles and New England asters growing wild along the dilapidated piers, so this is fertile ground for butterflies.

Yes, Virginia, Now Meet Irene The dilapidated piers in the West Village have long been a last frontier.

Two dilapidated piers can be seen extending into the sea.