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<main role="main" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><article data-component="story" class="story" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding-bottom: 2rem; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;">The S.S. United States — the greatest ocean liner ever built in America, and the fastest ever built anywhere — has been retired for 46 years, waiting for a second act. But its hazy future may just have been clarified a little bit. Mothballed in 1969, moored and growing shabby in Philadelphia since 1996, the ship is now owned by the S.S. United States Conservancy, a nonprofit that .
And one of those people, implausibly enough, appears to have come through at the last possible moment. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that John Quadrozzi, who owns the Red Hook docks, has taken a real interest in the S.S. U.S., and what he is offering would include not just a berth but time: Since he owns the dock, he will stop that ticking timer, allowing the ship to be parked in Red Hook rent-free while everyone figures out the particulars of the development scheme. The local berth is curiously appropriate: Throughout its life, the ship's home port was the West Side piers, so it's effectively headed home. This may be the first recorded case of an elderly New Yorker moving back from Philadelphia because the rent is cheaper here.

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