POSTPONED

Permission for PortSide’s remaining June events was revoked by the EDC last Friday, 6/16 as we all were waiting for paperwork from another party. PortSide tried to resolve things this week and could not by the weekend.  Very sorry if this affects your plans.  We’ll share an update when we have news.

From 11:30am to 5pm, come tour the flagship of PortSide NewYork, the tanker MARY A. WHALEN. Tours are open-style with docents stationed around the ship so you can move at your own pace. Family-friendly. Lots of things for kids to touch.

The MARY is the last of her kind in the USA and on the National Register of Historic Places. She has a long Red Hook pedigree. If you’re the type to do some research beforehand, see info here.

Make a day of it, and get some dinner in Red Hook or bring take-out the ship, and then join us at 9 pm for the screening of “Secret of the Grain” about a Tunisian man in France trying to open a restaurant on an oil tanker and his struggles against preposterous bureaucracy. Yes, we relate to this film.