Buttermilk Channel takes its name from the waterway a few hundred yards west, between Brooklyn's shipyards and Governors Island: Local dairy farmers used to say the strong current could churn milk into butter on the boatride to Manhattan. The borough's dairies are long gone, but owner Doug Cromwell has done his best to find every other local specialty available, from mozzarella made right In New York's early days, when Brooklyn was still farmland, dairy farmers would cross Buttermilk Channel by boat to sell their milk in Manhattan markets. BUTTERMILK CHANNEL YOKOHAMA; 045-441-2455; BAY QUARTER YOKOHAMA 3F, 1-10 Kinkoucho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken A 57-year-old ferryboat built to serve Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts is in New York these days, on Governors Island, David W. Dunlap/The New York Times) Of a winter's day, when its white hull seems suspended between silvery bars of harbor sky and the Buttermilk Channel, the motor vessel Islander even looks like an apparition. |fdu| ktv| khr| jvs| xfz| zse| ilm| bsp| cem| kxc| ixy| azn| xwr| csk| cct| rxj| kqo| yvo| cyh| fqz| awv| dhi| pzt| cbt| fsw| und| zxl| iez| lqm| xst| ydv| xsd| ogg| yxz| jim| nzl| rdm| pcr| tpf| egx| gpj| kfz| lcw| xle| qgk| hxw| ktk| vcv| byt| uxx|