RiverWatch Red Hook Water Stories

PortSide NewYork, is a community of people on one part of New York harbor’s waterfront, and the dream of one woman, Carolina Salguero to keep local maritime history alive. She does that through her work on the Mary A. Whalen, a small oil tanker built and launched in Camden, New Jersey in 1938 for Ira...
Erie Basin, Red Hook c.1900, "Boating at Sunset" by Jenny Young Chandler, courtesy of the Henry Ford Museum

An Aversion to Upgrading the Avenue

The managing boards of a dozen condominium buildings in Battery Park City have now passed resolutions calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to halt its ongoing initiative to consider a possible redesign of South End Avenue. The scope of this project was recently narrowed, when the BPCA announced that it was no longer...
South End Avenue plan

TODAY IN HISTORY November 9

694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to...
Robert Frank's "Car accident-U.S. 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona, 1956"

BMCC Tribeca PAC Presents Azul Dance Theatre: VISION

Founded by Artistic Director Yuki Hasegawa, Azul Dance Theatre is a collective of NY based contemporary dance artists. VISION investigates one’s self-fight against fear and insecurity by projecting psychological images and ghostly illusions into contemporary dance. Since 2004, Azul creates dances that convey the invisible flow of energy known as “Chi” in Eastern philosophy to...
Azul Dance Theatre

Advice and Dissent

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Wednesday, November 9), from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community, and...

National Thoughts

The old man used to say, “facing a disaster with people who are at their best in the worst of times is far better than sitting down to a feast with people who are at their worst in the best of times.” If we are now to be led by somebody who evinces every sign...