(13 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hudson, New York, June 12, 2024
1. Aerial shot of lighthouse ++MUTE++
2. Med workers at lighthouse
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hudson, New York, May 20, 2024
3. Wide water-level lighthouse
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Hudson, New York, June 12, 2024
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Van Calhoun, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“The risk is that in five years, this will begin to topple in the water. That's the physical risk. But the risk to the community and the region is huge. It's an identity. And people on both sides have grown up with this lighthouse and love it”
5. Wide barge passing lighthouse
6. Med barge passing lighthouse
7. Tight lighthouse foundation
8.SOUNDBITE (English) Van Calhoun, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“Between the effects of heavy river currents and the large river traffic that comes up, that causes huge turbulence under the water. It is eroding the soil from underneath our lighthouse, and it's exposing our pilings, which are beginning to deteriorate.”
9. Wide lighthouse with workers passing in boat
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Hudson, New York, May 20, 2024
10. Passing lighthouse from water
11. Tilt up lighthouse
12. River through window from staircase
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Gamble, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“The National Trust for Historic Preservation has designated the Hudson Athens Lighthouse as one of the most endangered historic places in the entire United States.”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Gamble, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“And we need, basically, the 100-year fix.”
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Gamble, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
“We will encase the pilings with a steel curtain.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hudson, New York, June 12, 2024
16. Med low roof workers
17. Med high roof worker
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hudson, New York, May 20, 2024
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Gamble, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“Our first project is to do the roof, to replace the roof. We want to make sure the house is still here before we start working on the underwater.”
19. Wide lighthouse from shore with fisherman in foreground
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Hudson, New York, June 12, 2024
20.SOUNDBITE (English) Van Calhoun, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society:
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“If we can get this done next year, get into the foundation wall, we will be okay. If we don't get the funding for three or four years, we’ll be in big danger.”
21. Lighthouse with flag in foreground
22. Aerial shot receding from lighthouse ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
A race is on to save a lighthouse that has guided ships since the steamboat era from toppling into the Hudson River.
Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, causing the 150-year-old structure in the middle of the river to shift. Cracks are already apparent on the brick building and its granite foundation.
“The risk is that in five years, this will begin to topple in the water. That's the physical risk. But the risk to the community and the region is huge. It's an identity. And people on both sides have grown up with this lighthouse and love it,” said Van Calhoun of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society.
The proposed ring of corrugated steel would shield the pilings from that turbulence.
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29 авг 2024
