My colleague Larry Rulison reports that after 13 seasons anchored off Hudson Shores Park in Watervliet, the Rusty Anchor restaurant barge will not reopen this year. During heavy ice flows on the Hudson River in January, the barge was among several vessels that broke free from their moorings and floated downriver, crashing into the Livingston Avenue railway bridge. Rusty Anchor owner Kevin Shufelt tells Rulison damage to the barge was too extensive to be worth repairing, and it will be scrapped. He would not say whether he plans to reopen another waterfront restaurant.

Shufelt opened his firs barge restaurant, Riverfront Bar & Grille, at Albany’s Corning Preserve in 1996, opening Rusty Anchor 10 years later. He sold Riverfront Bar & Grille in 2011. It closed after the 2017, was seized by a bank and later sold at auction.