Tag: Local

Bon Voyage Peking

Yesterday morning at about 8:30am, the barque Peking pushed off from her pier at the South Street Seaport for one last time to begin her final trip home to the land of her birth, Hamburg, Germany. Peking eased out into the slack tide of the East River and was assisted by two Henry Marine tugs....

AMERICAN DUNKIRK: THE WATERBORNE EVACUATION OF MANHATTAN ON 9/11

One of the great but unrecognized stories of 9/11 is the impromptu response by mariners that resulted in the biggest evacuation by water in history. A new book American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 examines what lessons can be learned from this mobilization of boats and ships that rescued countless people following...
A Coast Gaurd rescue team from Sandy Hook, NJ, responds to the terrorsit attack Sept. 11, 2001.

Auf Weidersehen Peking

This morning at about 8:30am, depending on weather conditions related to tropical storm Hermine, the barque Peking will push off from South Street Seaport for one last time to begin her final trip home to the land of her birth, Hamburg Germany. Peking will ease out into the slack tide of the East River and,...

Full Steam Ahead

For the first time since 1994, the JOHN W. BROWN will visit New York. She’ll dock at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side (299 South St at foot of Montgomery St.) and be open for tours, starting with a fundraising reception the evening of September 9 and ending with a 6-hour living history cruise...
The JOHN W. BROWN will pay a visit on September 9

ROWING THE ATLANTIC

FROM DR. STEIN HOFF AFTER HIS RESCUE AT SEA: “Tonight, Wednesday 10th August, it is four days since I was rescued and felt reborn, hauled up from my tossing “Fox II”. Many times I thought that cabin was to become my coffin as the boat was knocked-down and rolled over numerous times. The longest knock-downs...

Friends of Lower West Side and Washington Street Historical Society Host Block Party

On Saturday July30th, two local historic preservation groups, Friends of the Lower West Side and the Washington Street Historical Society joined forces to host a community block party to celebrate the “Lower West Side” on Washington Street between Rector Street and Carlisle Street. They were celebrating the neighborhood’s old and new architecture and the rich...
From left to right: Jordan White, (Washington St Historical Society) , Selwyn Garraway and Kathleen Moore (Friends of the Lower West Side), Ruth Kirstein (Middle East Film Initiative and FLWS), Michael Buening (China Institute behind Ruth) Mary Dierickx, (FLWS), Mary Perillo (9/11 Environmental Action), Vinton Thompson, president, Metropolitan College of New York and FLWS), Mary Ann DiNapoli (FLWS) and Todd Fine (Washington St. Historical Society)