Two concrete pylons carry the steel tide gate, which, in its raised position, looks like the blade of an enormous guillotine. With seventy-five feet of horizontal clearance and sixty-nine feet of vertical clearance, the tide gate was built to close off the inner harbor from hurricane storm surges.
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