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While the Promenade Art Show is unfolding this side of the East River, the choicest view of New York%u2019s finest architecture is unfolding on the far shore. The lines of Manhattan%u2019s profile have grown bolder and craggier year by year, and here we%u2019ve captured its face %u2014 its 1979 face %u2014 with a Brooklyn baedeker for those who%u2019ve wondered just what lies where with the towering facades on our far facing banks.%u2014 Linus Geiber$37.40 Wall St.38.Chase Manhattan Plaza 39.80 Pine St.4 0 . Pine St.41. Wall St. Plaza (88 Pine St.)42. Depeyster St.43. Home Insurance, 99 Maiden Lane44. Maiden Lane45.160 Water St.46.160 Front St.fby's lofty skyline buildings )ffice towers sprang from and humble beginnings, he turn-of-the century shot lip of Manhattan pictured %u25a0 Well before the days of ling on-the-half-hour ferries Tioored o ce a n ic cruise schooners and steamships or the harbor waters; the Jzard shoreline scene is ated by waterfront houses opposed to massive apers. (Photo courtesy St. Seaport Museum)47.130 John St.48.79 John St.49.99 John St.50. John St.51. South Street Seaport 52.111 John St. 53.Woolworth Building 54.127 John St. 55.Fuiton St. 56.ieekm an St.57. Southbridge Towers58. N.Y. State Office Building, 270 Broadway59. Peck Slip60. New York Telephone, 323 Broadway61. Borough of Manhattan Minicipal Building62. Federal Office Building, 26 Federal Plaza63. Dover St.64. US District Court Building65. Bell Telephone Company, 375 Pearl St.66. Criminal Court Building67. Alfred E. Smith Housing Project68. Chatham Green Housing69. Brooklyn Bridge Confucius Plaza HousingTh e Ships A n d Th e ir SlipsBY LIBBY HAYMANWhen you look at Manhattan from the Promenade, one piece of Brooklyn is right infront of you, the section of the Port whichmakes of the Port Authority Marine Terminal.The only major New York-New Jersey PortAuthority facility in the Brooklyn Port, theTerminal includes 12 piers, running from theBrooklyn Bridge all the way to Red Hook,where a new Containerport will someday bebuilt.From the Promenade, an important facilityof the Terminal can be seen to the left, theNew York Dock Railway carfloat dock, wherecargo which has been loaded onto flatcarscan be rolled right onto a lighter, or barge,and carried across the water to New Jersey,where Conrail tracks link up with otherdocking facilities.Next to the Carfloat dock is Pier Three, one of the busiest piers at the Terminal, where the Grancoium biana Line, serving Colombia, Ecuador, and some Central American Ports, brings in a variety of tropiedi piuuuce. The rich sm ell of coffee beans is alm ost a constant at Pier Three. Colom bian coffee, (\best in the w orld,\coiumbiana reminds us) is sampled at thedocks, and most of it is shipped to GeneralFoods factories in New . Jersey, whereMaxwell House is produced.The two ships shown at Pier Three in thepicture are the Rio Amazonas and the Cuidadde Bogota. Both bring coffee and bananasand plantains, the latter often unloaded atspecial facilities at Port Newark. The Cuidadde Bogota also carries refrigerated cargo,such as shrimp from Ecuador. The ships willtake back general cargo, mostly manufacturedgoods, which are inside the vast containersstacked at the piers.Other tenants of the Terminal have ships in Port at Piers 1 and 3, near the Bridge. Lines serving Egypt and the Middle East, as well as other lines serving South Am erica use those piers, includ ing Delta Lines, Venezuelan Line, Nedlloyd (serving the M iddle East) and others. All three piers, as well as Piers 4 and 5, are operated by Universal M aritim e Service C orp., a s te v e d o rin g co m p a n y w h ic h em ploys the !ongshorem en whose strenuous e ffo rts m ake a le isu re ly s tro ll on the Promenade seem b lissfully lazy.Graphics bv Vincent MusacchiaSeptember 13,1979, The PHOENIX, Page 13