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• “Within the city 's draft Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, the recommendation for the piers is now to leave them as an industrial use, as with a set of other districts around the city such as Sunset Park and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Sea Change in Waterfront Plans

• “Most shark fishing from the ocean fishing piers is done at night.”

  Video Report: Shark Kills Outer Banks Swimmer

• “One of the piers is hollow, and a steep and narrow staircase inside it leads up to a small chapel in the roof, with a window giving into the church – said to have been made for the royal family to hear Mass from, though how they managed to climb on a stool and squeeze through that door and up that staircase in those royal robes I do not know.”

  High Albania

• “*Transforming a vacant lot at the Beach 80th Street Marina in the Rockaways into a public waterfront esplanade, including docks, piers, a kayak launch, and a catering hall.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Along the City's Waterfront, Changes Are Afoot

• “Five of the bridge's 13 pilings, also known as piers, are being repaired during the project.”

  The Washington Post: Repairs on D.C.'s 14th Street bridge to continue 14 months, one lane at a time

• “Still, these customs and observances (of which All-hallow Eve is only one) may be called the piers, upon which rests a bridge that spans the wide past between us and the generations that have gone before.”

  Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas

• “The concrete for the piers was a mixture of 1 part Portland cement to 7 parts gravel; for the arches, the concrete was mixed 1 to 5.”

  Concrete Construction Methods and Costs

• “On the floor on the south side of the nave by one of the piers is a slab to the memory of a maker of gravestones, worded in this quaint fashion:”

  Yorkshire

• “The supports which afford resting and resisting points to the arch are called piers and abutments.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “The thicker pillars are of elaborate late Norman work, diapered in a manner recalling the piers of the nave at Durham.”

  The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See

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