The Ling was a nice museum.
City didn’t want it.
So now we have this crap, and the museum is “abandoned”.
And there were ofers from other locations to take it but - politics.
And now it’s mired in the mud and will cost a bundle to get clear. Then there’s the issue of moving it.
The plus side is that the Coast Guard still lists the Hackensack as a navigable river up to just before the NYSW bridge which is a quarter mile upstream of the Ling. Thus all the drawbridges downstream of the Ling are operable (or should be by law).
Even if they haven’t been opened in decades..