Parts of the industrial waterfront had remained decrepit; others had become crowded with offices and apartments.

Who would have guessed that a swath of industrial gray on the New Jersey waterfront could become an international flashpoint?

Its business district stretches along the river, just above a once-thriving industrial waterfront.

"If you're talking about the industrial waterfront, it's a really beautiful piece of urban archaeology," he said.

Long cut off by its industrial waterfront, the city is tearing up nearly a mile of decrepit warehouses, factories and train lines.

He found it on the fringes of Red Hook, right between the massive housing projects and the aging industrial waterfront.

If you closed your eyes it might have been any industrial waterfront in the world.

For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront.

Miller argued that the city may soon have to face the choice of "an industrial or revitalized waterfront".

"Long-term, it's part of a trend of the transformation of an industrial waterfront that's going to be used for housing and open space."