The Cuban Ledge, New York is a reef made mostly of sand and small rocks in Eastchester Bay, Bronx. A reef surrounding an islet. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...
The reef was allegedly created when a large barge carrying sand and gravel ran aground on a shoal. A salvage crew was mounted there and the barge was rescued, but much of the sand and gravel it was carrying needed to be removed in order to aid the rescue. The workers dumped the sand and rock overboard to get the barge off the shoal. The dumped cargo formed a small man-made reef which is visible at low tide. Self propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. ... A shoal is a sandbank or bar creating a shallow. ...
The barge may have been of Cuban registration or ownership, which is how Cuban Ledge got its name. Also, it was said that there was a fad at the time to name everything "Cuban" because the incident occurred in the time of the Spanish American War.
It is used by local fishermen to fish and to dig for worms (free bait) at low tide and drink beer.
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks in front of pictures of five men convicted of spying in the United States in Havana, June 23, 2001 (Photo: AFP).
"The Five Patriotic Heroes," as the Cuban press refers to them, are a group of Cuban agents recently convicted in the United States for spearheading a spy ring known as "The Wasp Network." Their six-month trial in a Miami federal courtroom resulted in prison sentences that many Cubans feel were unjustified and excessively severe.
The spies' trial has been mirrored by months of fervid "free the five" rallies and an abundance of rousing news reports on government-owned television casting the convicted agents as chivalrous, self-sacrificing crusaders who had ventured "into the belly of the beast" to protect their country.
By the mid-1950s and early 1960s—New York's Augustan age—urbanologists declared NewYork the star of Megalopolis, the six-hundred-mile skein of development from Boston to Washington that knits the Eastern Seaboard into one long, thin, supercilious supercity.
NewYork is unusual because it still has a lively downtown, making it one of very few U.S. cities with both a vital heart and an active edge.
NewYork has long cultivated an edgy relationship with nature, that big green blur between the lobby and the cab.
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