Open House New York - Tours of the MARY A WHALEN

Open House New York – Tours of the MARY A WHALEN

Tour the MARY A WHALEN with weekend with Open House New York

Details Date: October 19, 2019 iCal
Start: 12:00 PM
End: 6:00 PM
PortSide NewYork (map)
190 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Channel 7 News report from OHNY 2016

Take NYC Ferry’s South Brooklyn Route to Red Hook to tour and explore PortSide NewYork’s historic ship, the old tanker MARY A WHALEN.

The ship is open from 12-6 pm. Learn what it means to be a bell boat, hear stories about the crew and the Supreme Court case involving the MARY, and imagine what it was like to live and work aboard the 81-year-old coastal oil tanker. This is also a way to learn more about Red Hook past and present via PortSide’s digital maritime museum at www.redhookwaterstories.org. This covers the history of the fascinating peninsula or Red Hook and contains a complete guide to the bars, restaurants, shops and transit in the Hook. Info

ABOUT OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK

Open House New York provides broad audiences with unparalleled access to the extraordinary architecture of New York and to the people who help design, build, and preserve the city. Through its year-round programs and the annual OHNY Weekend, Open House New York celebrates the best examples of design and planning throughout the five boroughs, from historic to contemporary, and helps foster a more informed conversation about how architecture and urban design sustain New York as a vibrant place to live, work, and learn. Open House New York is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more info visit ohny.org.

Each October, Open House New York Weekend unlocks the doors to New York’s most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York. From colonial to contemporary, residential to industrial, hundreds of sites across the five boroughs are open to visit, with tours, talks, performances and other special events taking place throughout the weekend. Through the unparalleled access that it enables, OHNY Weekend deepens our understanding of the importance of architecture and urban design to fostering a more vibrant civic life and helps catalyze a citywide conversation about how to build a better New York.

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