Park Walks: O'Sullivans Island, Part Two

Derby, Connecticut

An old railroad bridge crosses the Naugatuck River just a few hundred yards north of its merge with the Housatonic. Both rivers were industrial corridors in times past. Now there's some urban renewal here and there but little industry remains.

Park Walks: O'Sullivans Island, Part One

Derby, Connecticut

A chilly morning, 12/317, under a heavy overcast sky with temperature just above freezing. Recently I'd noticed that O'Sullivans Island had been reopened as a recreation area after being closed for years during environmental cleanup. It's actually a peninsula, not really an island, that extends into the water at the junction of the Naugatuck and Housatonic Rivers.

The water was high and there was quite a bit of flooding along the shore and some interior areas of the park.

There's a free-access boat launch adjacent to the park area and fishermen frequent the island as well now that it's open, but there are issues about the fish in the Connecticut rivers with their history of heavy industrial development and pollution.

The mirror surface of the water echoed the ominous deep overcast late morning light.

[more to come]

Old Apartment Buildings

New Britain, Connecticut

In Progress

Meriden, Connecticut

Jenny K CLEANERS

Meriden, Connecticut

Buildings and Signs

Athens, New York

Morgan St.

Meriden, Connecticut

Golden Court, Faded Rainbow Door

Union City, Connecticut

Spring Trees, XIII

Peekskill, New York

Spring Trees, X

Waterbury, Connecticut

Spring Trees, IX

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Spring Trees, VIII

Waterbury, Connecticut

Spring Trees, VI

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Spring Trees, IV

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Side Yard, Factory Complex

Waterbury, Connecticut

Wall, II

Waterbury, Connecticut

Brick and Stone Building

Waterbury, Connecticut

BFGoodrich

Thomaston, Connecticut

Fast Food

Waterbury, Connecticut

It was some sort of fried chicken place, not the biggest chain, and seemed to go through several re-openings over the past ten or fifteen years, but it's back empty again.

Waterbury, Connecticut