The photo that you posted brings back fond memories. I worked at NYS in 1965-1967 as a nuclear engineer fresh out of college. I worked on the “TRUXTUN”, DLG(N)-35,which was a nuclear frigate.All of the people that I met and worked with at New York Ship were friendly, competent and hard working. The shipyard folded because the value of the outstanding common stock was less than the value of the physical plant. Speculators swooped in, purchased all of the stock and then sold off all of the machinery and the land. It is interesting that your photo dates from before the time that a drydock was constructed just north of Newton Creek. The drydock was immense and built to support construction of the supercarrier U.S.S. KITTYHAWK, CVA-63. Here is an intertesting valid (I think) factoid about NYS. During WW II, NYS had the highest employment level of any shipyard in the United States -— a reported 42,000 employees working three shifts, seven days per week to support the war effort.
Thanks for the very interesting background info on that photo and your comments regarding New York Ship.
It’s a real heart breaker to compare the hundreds (thousands?) of places like Camden and Detroit as they were then and the way they are now.