b'OBITUARYMEMBER NEWSARTHUR E. IMPERATORE, SR., FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, NY WATERWAY Dies at 95network and a backup system when otherYork, NJ, Imperatore was the ninth of ten transitmodesaredisrupted.Ferrycrewschildren living above his familys grocery. evacuated 150,000 people from ManhattanHe began earning a wage at age five, and on 9/11 and have rescued hundreds of peopleby age eight had set a goal of earning 10 from area waters, including 143 people fromcents per week to help support his family.Flight 1547, the Miracle on the Hudson, the mostsuccessfulmarinerescueinaviationImperatorejoinedtheU.S.ArmyAir history. Corps where he served as a navigator on B-24 Liberators and B-29 Superfortresses ItwasImperatoresdreamtorevitalizeduring WWII.After the war in 1947, he hisnativeNewJerseycommunityandand his brothers started A-P-A Transport NY Waterway did just that.Starting withCorp. with surplus army trucks and grew thecompanysPortImperialterminustobecomethefourthlargestinterstate inWeehawken,NJ,Imperatoreledthefreight trucking company in the U.S.N Y Waterway founder and presidentdevelopmentofathrivingresidentialandThroughouthislife,Imperatore ArthurE.Imperatore,Sr.diedcommercialcommunity.Ashisvessels November 18 at the age of 95. transportedpassengerstoandfromNewwashonoredbybusinessandcivic York City, his fleet of buses made the ferryorganizationsforhiscorporateand Imperatoresimpressivecareerspannedservice accessible to the surrounding towns.humanitarian contributions. Among his morethansevendecadesandincludedIn this way, the ferry-bus network becameawardswerethreehonorarydoctoral variousventuresfromminingtorealthe infrastructure that supported waterfrontdegrees,theprestigiousHoratio estate, from sports teams to transportation.development from Edgewater to Jersey CityAlgerAward,andthefirstU.S.Senate HefoundedNYWaterwayin1986inboostingbothlocalandstateeconomies.Productivity Award, presented to him by Weehawken,NJandbuiltitintoamassTothisday,theferry-busnetworkisformer New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. transit system that has transported almostaninternationalmodelforeffective, 300 million people to date. coordinated mass transportation systems.He is survived by his wife, son, stepson, threestepchildren,eightgrandchildren, NY Waterway has become a vital componentBorn on July 8, 1925 to Italian fruit grocersand two step-grandchildren. in the Metro New York Citys mass transitEugene and Teresa Imperatore in West New ADVERTISERS INDEXABB 45 FareHarbor 32 Nichols Bros. .37All American Marine . 19 Freedman Seating Company 37 Propspeed 21Arcadia Alliance 38 Furuno USA, Inc. 23 Rigidized Metals Corporation 42BAE Systems .17 GPLINK LLC . 40 RW Fernstrum Co . 36Bay Ship and Yacht 11 Hamilton Jet 36 Scania USA 13Beurteaux . 43 HUMPHREE USA LLC 29 Siemens Corporation 41Blount Boats, Inc, 23 IMTRA Corporation 33 Starboard Suite .31BMT Designers & Planners, Inc, . 20 John Deere Power Systems 43 Timco Marine Equipment 39Brix Marine. . 46 Kobelt 30 Torqeedo, Inc 42Burger Boat Company 28 Kongsberg . 12 Twin Disc, Inc. . 50Carus Ferry Ab Ltd . 35 Lay Pitman 24 UES Seating .8Caterpillar Marine 34 Listen Technologies Canada Corporation25 Volvo Penta 5Cummins Sales & Service . 30 Marine Jet Power . 15 West Marine Pro . 26Dejong and Lebet .21 MCM 32 WheelHouse Technologies, Inc. .41Driveline Service of Portland, Inc 45 Metal Shark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 ZF Marine PropulsionEastern Shipbuilding . 44 Motor Services Hugo Stamp .6 Systems Miramar, LLC . 38ePayment America . 22 MTU . 49MEMBER NEWS 48 FOGHORN'