Do you know what lies at the end of the pier?
There is some speculation that there is a carnival on 165th Street
modeled after a California-style boardwalk at the end of the pier.
Some time ago a movie was shot in this location in which a car crashes through the
crowded chaos of a happy day in the falling action. Thus, some believe that there
is a car submerged under the docks at the end of the pier.
The fascinating fact in all of this is what followed in an interview with the stuntman
who drove the car used in the movie. “An ’06 Honda Accord. Nothing fancy, actually,
something you’d expect your angry middle-school teacher to drive. Handles like an
upright kitchen power-mixer. But in the scene in which I administered havoc upon
the set of the boardwalk, I lost control of the Accord as soon as I hit the glistening
boards of two-by-fours laid so carelessly, and I assure you that nothing in that scene was planned.”
An interviewer then went on to inquire as to whether he escaped the car unharmed.
“I don’t remember as to whether my physical state was harmed; that is as much a mystery as is
what lies at the end of the pier.”