Dave got to the Boathouse at 5:30, hardworking PAs from: Jewel Box Productions, Kaufman Astoria studios, The ‘Untitled James Gray Project’, were there much earlier with the ubiquitous ‘Haddads’ production vehicles.
Eric Russel & I got the ‘Silversides’ into the water.
The our neighbor the Lovely ‘Lilac’ a circa 1920’s steamer, a former bouy tender was already on set at the North side of Pier 40.
She was held in place two tugs, moored to a barge on her starboard.
The barge was to hold a green screen so a ’20’s’ cityscape could be CGI’d into the scene.
The north side was dressed with period luggage, a wooden gang way.
The movie, as i understand, is to star Joachim Phoenix, and others, the plot: the saga of two immigrant sisters one ill on Ellis Island, while one attempts to earn enough to free her sister, suffering under the unkind attention of young Mr Pheonix, who, murders a would-be rescuer… or something like that.

(I don’t know the female lead, I passed on the opportunity to speak with Mr Gray, got boats to maintain & I quickly grew tired of the earnest company of young PAs with their radios, I carried Franks marine radio so i would fit in).

actually, it was emailing–a woman who lives on a houseboat on Regents Canal got in touch and did a little writeup on us:

http://urbanboater.com/new-york-village-community-boathouse/

VCB sent six crews and four gigs including four crews from Harbor School and two crews from Stuyvesant High School, to Hull, Mass for the northeast open water rowing youth championships, the Icebreaker. There were heavy winds and rough surf throughout the day-16 mph sustained winds with 30 mph gusts. The sprints were cancelled because many of the crews couldn’t get the boats off the beach due to the wind. Despite the weather, all six crews performed admirably. The Harbor School second fours boat came in first place. The Stuy Rowing first fours won the nautical mile and have a plaque to show for it.