Ocean liners, aka Cruise Ships, still dock on Manhattan's remaining Hudson River piers. The Normandie was one of the great liners but not the last one as the article wrongly suggests (eg The France, QE ll, the Nieu Amsterdam, the Queen Mary, the United States, etc)
The sinking of the SS Normandie at Manhattan's Pier 88 in 1942 is a story of one screw-up after another: The Sinking of The S.S. Normandie At NYC’s Pier 88