12 to 5pm, Sunday, November 10, 2024 on and in the Mary A. Whalen
Come visit the last of her kind in the USA, the coastal oil tanker Mary A. Whalen! Learn about her nationally-significant history and our plans to #makeMARYrunagain.
Special roster of docents!
Nobby Peers, the Principal of Whitworth Marine, will be in the engine room talking about the engine and engine room restoration!
Paul Kennedy, train mechanic and car restoration specialist in the fidley
Maria Nieto of #RedHookisMagic in the galley.
PortSide’s own ED Carolina Salguero and Historian Peter Rothenberg and others.
Also, a massive give-away of used kids books and a hand full of adult books! We have 9 large IKEA bins of them, plus all books in the former free library of PortSide Park. We have boxes of books in Spanish (see slide show below) and many more than that in English. Story books, picture books, science books, history books. All must go!
Also, this is an opportunity to learn about the replanning of the port where we are located, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT), which runs from Atlantic Avenue/Pier 7 south to Red Hook's Wolcott Street. This waterfront is being replanned as a result of the City's taking it over the property from the Port Authority. This is NYC's biggest land deal in decades. Learn more on PortSide’s blog.
Make it a double bill and check out free SecondSundays at our neighbors Pioneer Works!
