Newsletters

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New-in-2024, for urgent issues and special things relating to Red Hook. Sign Up for Red Hook newsletter

New-in-2025, info relating to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) planning process. Sign up for BMT newsletter

If you are interested in PortSide’s education offerings, sign up for our Education newsletter

If you you want to help run events or do ship restoration, sign up for our Volunteer newsletter

Past newsletters

• All lists: New programs starting tomorrow! Sloop Clearwater is here! and more! 8/26/25

• Volunteer list: Upcoming Events in need of Volunteers 8/22/25

• Education list: ASAP book a field trip on sloop Clearwater+ info on other PortSide field trips 8/13/2025

• Volunteer list: SecondSaturday 8/9 Call for Volunteers 8/8/2025

• Volunteer list: Can you help this Friday night for Old Timers' day Meet n Greet? 7/27/2025

• General list: A fireworks thank you! We're open today for 2 events! 7/12/2025

• General list: PortSide events resume! Come to our 4th of July fireworks fundraiser! More BMT updates 7/2/2025

• Volunteer list: Can you help? 4th of July, 7/12 City of Water Day & Second Saturdays TankerTime BBQ 7/1/2025

• General & BMT list PortSide & BMT news! Meet tonight, film tomorrow, Council hearing Thursday 6/9/25

• General list: Film screening tomorrow & next Thursday, how to help us, lots of BMT updates 5/21/2025

• Volunteer list: MAY you have some time to volunteer? 5/21/2025

• General list: We're shut down and #PortSideNeedsaHome 5/12/2025

• General list: Care to join rallies on Thursdays 4/3 and 4/10 to help PortSide? 4/1/2025

• General list: A lot of Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) events & news, 3/9/2025

• General list: BMT, rethinkEDC & PortSide needs a home, board game night & more! 2/23/2025

• Volunteer list: Can you help paint the hull on Tuesday and/or Wednesday? 2/23/2025

• General list: BMT – where to go, what to know - lots this week! 1/14/2025

• General list: Please see our Operation Christmas Cheer & last call for 2024 donations. 12/28/2024

• General list: The MARY made history OTD in 1968, help PortSide make history today! 12/23/2024

• General list: A Moving Holiday... 12/09/2024

• General list: Donate to PortSide this Giving Tuesday for high impact all year long! 11/3/2024

• General list: Thanks for the toilet! Holiday Party! BMT news & events. 11/25/2024

• Red Hook list: Important Zoom Town Hall about BMT (our waterfront) by Alexa Aviles & Marcela Mitaynes, 11/20/2024

• General list: TankerTours this Sunday! Free used kids' books! BMT updates!, 11/8/2024

• Volunteer list: Can you help with TankerTours Sunday, 11/10? Also shipwork this Saturday + Sunday, 10/24/2024

• Education list: Last call for education sails on CLEARWATER this week + other programs, Sep 30, 2024

• Education list: Historic ship CLEARWATER October education sails! Lots more PortSide programs, Sep 12, 2024

• Volunteer list: Free trip on fireboat JOHN J. HARVEY Sat 8/24, Aug 20, 2024

• General list: Alert about the EDC land swap zoom on 8/12, Aug 9, 2024

• Red Hook list: ALERT! Important Zoom meeting Monday, Aug 12, 6:30pm about future of our area, Aug 9, 2024

• General list: Surprise! MORE June programs! Sloop Clearwater is returning!, June 6, 2024

• General list: Sloop Clearwater is coming last week of May + full June calendar!, May 25, 2024

• Education list: Here's new curriculum, internships, resources and major local news, May 17, 2024

• Red Hook list: PortSide & Red Hook news & keep your eyes on the waterfront, May 12, 2024

• General list: May newsletter with curriculum, programs, victories, internships, and more!, May 11, 2024

• Volunteer list: Care to pitch in? New Shipwork Sundays plus program events. March 28, 2024

• News! And can you write a support letter by 5pm Wednesday to help us get funding? Feb 26, 2024

• Can you write a support letter by 5pm Wednesday to help us get funding?, Feb 25, 2024

• Red Hook list: POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW! City Council hearing about cruise terminal issues. Feb 12, 2024

• Red Hook list: Latest on Intro 1050, info about testifying on 2/13 & on youth education aspects, Feb. 1, 2024

• Red Hook list: follow up to EDC meeting, NYC Ferry career day tomorrow, and more! January 25, 2024

• Red Hook list: come to history-making 1/16 Red Hook meeting, 6-8pm at the Miccio January 12, 2024

• Why a Chihuahua is at the helm! And it's not too late to support PortSide this year! December 30, 2023

• Donate and create transformative experiences like Roman's, December 28, 2023

• New milestone! 2023 recap. Donating now can help us get a bigger grant, December 21, 2023

• Thanking and Inviting!, November 22, 2023

• We can resume having events! Visit us this weekend for Red Hook Open Studios! October 6, 2023

• PortSide's remaining June programs cancelled, June 23, 2023

• Check out our exciting June programs while the EDC imagines Atlantic Basin without us, June 8, 2023

• Remember the 3/31 deadline for comments on USACE HATS resiliency plan - here's our comment, March 27, 2023

• URGENT ACTION NEEDED on US Army Corps resiliency plan - March 5, 2023

• 2022 photo highlights to inspire your year-end gift! - December 29, 2022

• Here's holiday spirit and how to grow it - December 23, 2022

• MAJOR news about #makeMARYrunagain - December 19, 2022

• Friends, here's breaking good news in the spirit of Thanksgiving! - November 23, 2022

• PortSide October education events & Barnacle Parade - October 18, 2022

• Friends, Evicted! and some good news - October 7, 2022

• Great new$$$! PortSide impact! How you can support! - July 7, 2022

• See MAIDEN this Wednesday & other PortSide news - June, 20, 2022

• Some good news in tense times - February 25, 2022

• Here's why they supported. Care to join them? - December 29, 2021

• Want to see more inventive, empathetic pivots like this? - December 28, 2021

• Do want to change lives and public policy? - December 27th 2021

• Did you hear what the Mayor said on Wednesday? - December 20th 2021

• Can you volunteer Saturday to help with holiday decorating or moving ship parts? -
  December 3rd 2021

• Unloading ship parts. Can you volunteer tomorrow? - November 30th 2021

• Some Thanksgiving inspiration from PortSide - November 24th 2021

• Help us crew a flag art exhibit this weekend, Oct 9 & 10 - October 6th 2021

• Do you know the maritime 9/11 story? - September 6th 2021

• Deadline extended! Thursday event. Fab birth day photos - June 9, 2021

• Help Right-size Portside NewYork - May 28, 2021

• MARY month of May events - May 16, 2021

• Help Host MARY WHALEN's 83rd Birthday - May 14, 2021

• Pop Over Saturday 4/24 to reinstall our Popup Park, Please - April 23, 2021

• Our 2020 grew MARY’s role for the future - December 28, 2020

• PortSide 2020: Music and space soothe the soul in pandemic times - December 13, 2020

• Do you know PortSide pivoted in 2020? - December 6, 2020

• Can you volunteer tomorrow? Set up & run PortSide station at Red Hook Holiday Fair - December 5, 2020

• 55,000 pounds of gratitude, and more - November 25, 2020

• 2020 3rd volunteer newsletter - November 2, 2020

• Finally! Another volunteer newsletter from PortSide! - September 15, 2020

• Finally! a volunteer newsletter from PortSide! - July 28, 2020

• 26 tons of good news needs action. Virtual programs. COVID19 aid info - May 8, 2020

• A word from our ship cat Chiclet - December 31, 2019

• Be a Change Maker - December 20, 2019

• A Big Surprise plus a Request  - December 12, 2019

• Help at Nice Happenings this October - September 19, 2019

• Great to meet you at the race! Welcome to the PortSide family! - July 20, 2019

• Volunteer at Two Fun Events - June 29, 2019

• Kick Off Summer TankerTime! - June 7, 2019

• May booming along! - May 14, 2019

• PortSide News: This Spring, Help Us Grow! - April 5, 2019

• Insulate during the heat wave! - February 3, 2019

• Lend a hand: PortSide's Simple Machine goes to school 1/22 - January 16, 2019

• Wow. I've never been on a boat before. - December 29, 2018

• Beyond the Usual - December 22, 2018

• News! Growth! Help us continue it in 2019! - December 19, 2018

• PortSide Volunteer Holiday Party - November 30, 2018

• Double your love if you act fast - November 26, 2018

• G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E - November 20, 2018

• Can you help? Winterizing & pre-Coast Guard inspection work  - November 11, 2018

• Free for you! Your wish list? Program news! - July 12, 2018

• Car race freebies! A survey and July - August activities! - July 5, 2018

• Today is the day! 80, 13, 3! - May 20, 2018

• Big news! Turning 80! Events for you! - May 7, 2018 

• Volunteer Party on the Mary! Today! - May 6, 2018 

• It's on the horizon! - December 30, 2017

• Volunteer party time changed! Times we need yr help this summer! - June 9, 2017

• Voices Sharing Their PortSide Experiences. A year-end appeal

• Can you lend a hand on Sandy5 Anniversary 10/29?

• Sandy5, programs for you, our Sandy recovery campaign

• Care to help give TankerTours for OHNY Sunday,10/15?

• PortSide summer programs! How you can help our Sandy recovery & more

• New Board Members, Summer Programs

• Summer Schedule: Join Us and Join In

• I was amazed at what happened yesterday

• Today, the MARY WHALEN made history. #GetOnBoard,help us continue making history

• Help create compelling, personal WaterStories for all!

• Youth program makes MARY gleam! A Thanksgiving invitation!

• Can you help the final push on outdoor shipwork?

• Our digital museum is launched! Thoughts on Sandy +4 years

• OHNY TankerTours this Sunday, a tanker family grows in Brooklyn

• OHNY Sunday: lend a hand, volunteer party afterwards

• a love of labor, programs this week, Chiclet in gCaptain

• Seeking volunteers ashore and afloat

• TankerTime this Sunday. RHWS campaign a success!

• We're at 77%. Can you help put us over the top?

• TankerTour report! TankerTime this Sunday! RHWS needs you!

• MARY WHALEN opens for her 78th birthday! +3 Fleet Week ships! Such Red Hook WaterStories!

• Equity & NYC's waterfront - what we recommend

• Volunteer to snow shovel Saturday and/or Sunday

• THE SEARCH IS OVER. THE FUTURE IS NOW. #GetOnBoard

• Care about education? Here's how to #GetOnBoard

• Big news for PortSide education, training & preservation work! #GetOnBoard!

• Thanks for making our Thanksgiving! Best wishes for yours!

• Before the snow flies! Volunteer day this Sunday

• A new journey begins! #GetOnBoard

• Big news for PortSide education, training & preservation work! #GetOnBoard!

• Joaquin storm prep volunteers needed

• The Weather Channel sponsors #GetOnBoard! Join them!

• 9/24 Bluegrass music event, 10/27 Save the date!

• Volunteer day this Sun 9/20, upcoming events need you!

• Heard about PortSide's GetOnBoard campaign? Get your tickets

• POW! First cultural programs on MARY A. WHALEN in 5 years!

• A new berth of freedom for PortSide NewYork!

• PortSide volunteer news - workday, party, ship move

• Merry-time Greetings! Have a happy BLUEspace!

• Thanks for success, good times, & great recovery work

• BLUEspace News #1 Improve NYC Waterfront Permitting

• Surprising October & urgent November volunteer request!

• Fundraiser! Future plans for last of her kind

• PortSide volunteer news

• PortSide springs ahead

• Can you lend a hand to finish the galley renovation?

• Sanding, Sandy, the Waterfront and the new administration

• A personal word from our director

• Our ship has been moved to speak

• Helping Hands; Waterfront Resiliency; Little Hats!

• Honor the unsung, speak to our nation's history, at no cost to you

• Moxie & Mirth & the Foxy MARY Sandy Story

• News from PortSide; Red Hook Sandy recovery & resiliency update

• Save some dates in your Sept & Oct calendar

• Save the date! July 30th event at Fort Defiance

• A whirlwind month brings good news!

• Come Celebrate MARY A WHALEN's 75th Birthday!

• Please help MARY WHALEN be open for her 75th birthday

• Reconnect on the occasion of Sandy + 6 months