Press Coverage
Panels & Presentations
Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center. Staying Afloat During COVID-19: Three Stories from the Brooklyn Waterfront 2/19/2021
Podcast: “Key Change” by the The Santa Fe Opera, 0304: Singing a Call To Action, Is This America? February 24, 2021.
Highlighted Articles
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Bill Passed to Cut Pollution from Giant Cruise Ships in Brooklyn 3/11/2024
amNew York EXCLUSIVE: City Council set to pass bill requiring cruise ships connect to shore power while idling – or sail away 3/6/2024
PIX11 NYC bill aims to tackle pollution from idling cruise ships 2/24/2024
News 12 Brooklyn Nonprofit Portside New York remembers impact of Superstorm Sandy 10/26/2022
The City NYC Economic Development Corporation Abruptly Evicts Beloved Red Hook Playground 9/28/2022
CBS New York Red Hook residents mourn the loss of a pandemic pop-up park created by local non-profit, PortSide New York during the pandemic 9/30/2022
PIX11 Recreation area along NYC waterfront removed 9/30/2022
Brooklyn Paper Red Hook Harbor Group Opens ‘PANDEMIC POP-UP PARK’ at Atlantic Basin 7/23/2020
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Historic Red Hook waterfront vessels quiet, for now: But performing arts can still be found nearby. 10/16/2020
Patch.com Brooklyn 'Duck Dock' Becomes Prime Real Estate For Birds In Need 8/16/2019
Patch.com Red Hook Gets High Water Mark Plaque 7 Years After Sandy Struck 10/30/2019
Explore Brooklyn Discovering the Urban Brooklyn Waterfront 8/18/2017
BRIC TV PortSide NewYork Explores the City's Maritime History - in Red Hook and Beyond! | BK Stories 7/19/2017
News12 NYC Ferry's South Brooklyn route begins 6/1/2017
Brooklyn Reporter New digital museum highlights past, present and future of Red Hook 11/1/2016
DNAinfo Past and Present of Red Hook Explored in New Website 10/27/2016
WNYC Inspired by Mariners on 9/11, One Photographer Found a Passion, 9/9/2016
NY1 Local Trade Unions Participate in Day of Service for City Nonprofits, 4/16/2016
NY1 Barco antiguo ancla su historia en las aguas neoyorquinas, 10/7/2015
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Ship ahoy! The Mary A. Whalen finds a new berth in Red Hook 8/19/2015
NY1 Oil Tanker Keeps Maritime History Afloat in Red Hook, 8/13/2015
DNAInfo Queen Mary 2 Sails into New York For Cunard's 175th Anniversary, 7/14/2015
Fox News Latino Superstorm Sandy's Unsung Hero: Oil Tanker Mary A. Whalen 10/27/2013
DNAinfo PortSide Receives White House Honors for Sandy 4/24/2013
Complete Archive
MEDIA
The Red Hook Star Review - A New Mural for PS 676 (10/2/19)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Floating museums and 19th-century storehouses: The Red Hook I cherish (5/29/19)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Red Hook merchants blast UPS’s sudden demolition of historic factory (5/28/19)
Gothamist - UPS Shocks Red Hook Preservationists By Demolishing Iconic Waterfront Factory On Eve Of Memorial Day Weekend (5/27/19)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Demolished! UPS ignores preservationists’ plea, begins bulldozing Red Hook factory (5/24/19)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Red Hook activists fight to save historic factory from UPS demolition (5/23/19)
Crains -Fighting the tides of change in Red Hook (1/22/18)
The Red Hook Star Review - The Hidden Histories of the Mary A. Whalen (archived copy - p 18) (6/4/18)
New12 Brooklyn - Public Art Project Shows Conversations with Water (10/29/17)
Hyperallergic - Using AI to Pull Memories from Red Hook’s Waters (10/24/17)
Bric TV PortSide - New York Explores Red Hook's Maritime History | BK Stories (7/19/17)
The Wall Street Journal - The Electricity of Car-Racing Heads to Brooklyn (7/13/2017)
Curbed New York - After one month, NYC's new ferry service proves popular enough to inspire long waits (5/30/17)
DNAinfo -Past and Present of Red Hook Explored in New Website (10/27/16)
WNYC - Inspired by Mariners on 9/11, One Photographer Found a Passion (9/9/16)
NY1 - Local Trade Unions Participate in Day of Service for City Nonprofits (4/16/16)
NY1 - Barco antiguo ancla su historia en las aguas neoyorquinas (10/7/15)
NewYorker - POW! PortSide Weekend (8/15)
NY1 - Oil Tanker Keeps Maritime History Afloat in Red Hook (8/13/15)
DNAInfo Music and Tours Coming to Historic Red Hook Tanker 7/27/15
DNAInfo Queen Mary 2 Sails into New York For Cunard's 175th Anniversary, 7/14/15
DNAInfo Historic Tanker Finds New Home in Red Hook, 5/27/15
The Brooklyn Paper, Re-berth: Historic boat gets second shot at Red Hook home, 8/17/15
DNAInfo Queen Mary 2 Sails into New York For Cunard's 175th Anniversary, 7/14/15
DNAInfo Historic Tanker Finds New Home in Red Hook, 5/27/15
DNAinfo Decorate Your Place with Vintage Marine Gear 7/21/14
DNAinfo Loans, Solar-powered light, Relief Centers Proposed for Red Hook Resiliency 3/8/14
DNAinfo Red Hook Nonprofit Seeks Donations to Restore Historic Tanker's Kitchen 12/10/13
Fox Latino News Superstorm Sandy's Unsung Hero: Oil Tanker Mary A. Whalen 10/27/13
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Boaters want to help landlubbers survive the next storm 10/17/13
BBC Voices of Red Hook, New York City 10/14/13
New York Observer The Mary A. Whalen Celebrates 75 Years 5/29/13
Brooklyn Paper Boat’s B-day Bash 5/29/13
MarineLink N.Y. Open House for Tanker's 75th Birthday 5/17/13
FEMA "Winners of White House "Champions of Change" for Sandy recovery 4/25/13
DNAinfo Red Hook Gathering Marks Six Months Since Sandy 4/24/13
DNAinfo PortSide Finding Lawyers to Help Red Hook (Sandy) 11/22/12
DNAinfo Heat and Power to Those Without (Sandy) 11/22/12
WNYC Brian Lehrer Show After Sandy: Red Hook 12/7/12
BRICArts Brooklyn Independent TV Brooklyn Storms Back 12/7/12
Canadian Broadcasting Company Tracking Sandy 10/30/12
Time Out NY NYC's cutest animals 7-3-12
BBC Worldwide Revival of NY's Waterfront 6-28-12
New York TimesNo City for Old Ships 4-21-12
Brooklyn Eagle PortSide Steps up Efforts 4-18-12
Time Out NY Where to volunteer: Environment 4-18-12
Eyewitness News Oil tanker seeks new home 3-27-12
Brooklyn Eagle Editorial The Sea Beckons 2-29-12
Brooklyn Eagle Historic Tanker Seeks New Home 2-28-12
Brooklyn Eagle Maritime Cultural Group Threatened 2-20-12
New Yorker 9/11 Tributes 9-12-11
Wall Street Journal 911: Honoring with Art 9-8-11
Maritime Executive PortSide NewYork Multimedia Exhibit on Maritime Role in 9/11 8-25-2011
Maritime Executive Social Media, It's Not Just Personal 7-8/11
Red Hook Star Revue Her Vision For the Future Builds on Our Past 7/11
Brooklyn Paper State: Old Red Hook barge is history 6/25/11
Courier Red Hook tanker is history 6/24/11
NY1 Retired Oil Tanker Fuels Interest Along Brooklyn Waterfront 6/17/11
Capital Link Shipping Weekly Markets Report The Old and the New Shrouded in the mists of history 6/13/11
Time Out Neighborhood Guide to Red Hook 9/20/10
NY1 Rare Ship Docks In Red Hook 8/20/10
Professional Mariner Retired tanker at center of NY waterfront plans 8/19/10
New York Times A Veteran of the Seas, With a Crew Full of Actors 8/17/10
New York Times A Retired Tanker, a Home and a Summertime Stage 8/16/10
New York Times City of Water Day Festival 7/22/10
New York Times Farewell to a Tugboat Bard 6/23/10
New York Times Barges, Biding Time 8/7/09
Professional Mariner Historic collisions & the law–Part 3 6/23/09
BCAT TV"Neighborhood Beat" PortSide profile 5/13/09
Brooklyn Paper Culture has docked in Red Hook 3/24/09
Brooklyn Eagle Like a Phoenix, Red Hook Piers To Rise 3/17/09
Brooklyn Paper Tanker full speed ahead 3/09/09
Brooklyn Eagle City Drastically Revises Red Hook Waterfront Plans 1/6/09
Brooklyn Paper City Scolded on Im-port-ant Plan 1/6/09
Brooklyn Paper Letters A Broadside for PortSide 1/22/09
Brooklyn Eagle Operation Christmas Cheer Now In Its Fifth Year 12/23/2008
The New Yorker "Above and Beyond" 12/3/07
Brooklyn Paper ‘Grave’ event 11/24/07
Downtown Express Boat Lovers Say City Plan Abandons Ship 10/26/07
Metro New Waterfront Designs 10/24/07
BCAT TV Brooklyn Review Episode 161 9/24/07
Daily News Stevedores among their piers in opera 9/11/07
New York Times Don't Rock the Boat, Opera in Progress 9/8/07
New York Times slideshow 9/8/07
Christian Science Monitor Opera Hires Ship 9/6/07
Daily News Puccini Opera staged 9/6/07
Metro La Scala in Red Hook 9/6/07
Daily News Opera on a Tanker 6/27/07
Carroll Gardens Courier Opera for the People 6/21/07
Brooklyn Paper Cruise ship site a party flop 6/30/07
NY Sun Artists Stand Ground as Waterfront Changes 6/29/07
The Courier Maritime history snatched from the trash 3/5/07
Brooklyn Paper Extreme Makeover: Boat edition 2/24/07
NY Sun Red Hook's Revitalization Could Soon Take Sail 5/3/07
Brooklyn Paper Mickey Mouse Plan 12/21/06
Brooklyn Paper Kayakers cry ‘No Parking’ 9/23/06
BCAT TV Reporter Roundtable Episode 155: Red Hook 6/17/06
Time Out 10 more ways to get Hooked
New York Times Forgotten By All but a Ship of Elves 12/16/05
Marine News Tanks for the Memories 9/05
BLOGS
NYC Ferry blog PortSide NewYork's Sunset TankerTime 6/11/17
NYC Ferry blog TankerTours of SHIP MARY A. WHALEN 6/2/17
Pioneer Works Maritime Messaging: Red Hook: Katherine Behar Summer 2017
Liveboat USA QM2 Cunard 175 flotilla rendezvous. (images) 5/15
Old Salt Blog PortSide is White House "Champion of Change" 4/24/13
Carroll Gardens Patch PortSide NewYork Honored by White House 4/23/13
Manhattan User's Guide Marys of Manhattan 08/10/11
Cooking Channel Blog Seafood Dinners Aboard the Historic Mary A. Whalen 6/29/11
Tugster Figuring Out by Doing 06/14/11
Old Salt Blog Barquentine Gazela Arrives in NY Harbor 8/19/10
Word on Columbia Street Blog Upcoming PortSide programs 8/18/10
Bococa Land Tall Ship Gazela Docks in Red Hook Today 8/17/10
Sea Fever Celebrating our maritime heritage at PortSide New York 8/17/10
Bluegrass in New York Two Man Gentlemen Band aboard the Mary Whalen 8/16/10
Bay Ridge Journal PortSide Events at Pier 11 in August 8/14/10
Underwater New York City of Water Day Story Tank 8/11/10
A View From the Hook 10 Days Left of PortSide at Atlantic Basin 8/12/10
Found in Brooklyn Wednesday Night Flick On Tanker 8/8/10
Brooklyn Based On a Boat! 8/9/2010
Norway The Official Site in the United States Water Stores With Lars Nilsen 8/4/10
A View From The Hook PortSide New York - "City of Water Day" 7/23/10
Freebird Books and Goods Mary Whalen 7/22/10
Industry NYC The revival of a waterfront-Welcome to Brooklyn’s New Shipping Hub 5/12/10
gCaptain Maritime Monday Re-Purposed Tanker Mary Whalen Enjoys Second Life 2/16/10
Honoring Dutch Vessels 9/3/09
A Flotilla to Celebrate Quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's Voyage 9/8/09
Word on Columbia Street Going Dutch: Dutch ships on the BK waterfront 9/7/09
Frogma Speaker Series at Waterfront Museum 7/29/09
Bowsprite blog happy 70th birthday, Mary Whalen! 12/7/08
Brooklynite on the Ice 613 Tons of Homelessness 2/20/08
Tugster Mary Whalen Moves Part I and Part II 2/20/08
Lost City Christmas on the Open Sea 12/25/07
Tugster Operation Christmas Cheer 12/25/07
Roosevelt Islander Operation Christmas Cheer 12/20/07
Gowanus Lounge Brooklyn Gift Guide 12/13/07
Gowanus Lounge Whalen moves to Navy Yard: Gabriel Cohen Kickoff Event 11/17/07
Newyorkology 'Graving Dock' launch party set for Brooklyn Navy Yard 11/15/07
Tugster Diva 9/18/07
Tugster Red Hook Opera 8/7/07
NewyorkologyHidden harbor tour: big ships, tugs and decay 7/18/2007
Brooklynite on the Ice The Ballad of the Mary Whalen 5/27/07
MWA Waterwire New Life for the Mary A. Whalen 3/27/07
Gowanus Lounge Group Suggests That PlaNYC 2030 "Misses the Boat" 3/19/07
QueensWest discussion board Waterborne Transportation 3/17/07
Lex’s Folly Mary Whalen 2/8/07
Gowanus Lounge Underneath 613-Ton Ship: VisIting Whalen in Drydock 1/29/07 Brookvid: trip to bottom of Navy Yard Drydock
Gowanus Lounge PortSide’s Mary Whalen in Drydock 1/23/07
Stefan Falke’s Eye PortSide NewYork 1/20/07
Sail Brooklyn Red Hook Community Sailing: Get Involved 5/10/07
Tugster Second Lives 1/13/07
Gowanus Lounge Brooklyn Gift Guide 12/15/06
Society of Industrial Archeology (SIA) newsletter 12/06
NewYorkology Pre-museum Whalen towed to ship repair yard 11/28/06
Planetizen Words to Live By 9/21/06
NewYorkology On Mary Whalen for OHNY 10/7/06
ForgottenNY Open House New York Â’06 10/06
Historic Districts Council Red Hook Graving Dock Update 7/31/06
B61 Productions PortSide New York lays out blueprint for change 5/3/05