NYC’s South Street Seaport Museum Sea Chantey and Maritime Music Hybrid Sessions Continue This Sunday

South Street Seaport Museum has announced that its monthly sea-music events Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music––the original NYC chantey sing–– will continue on the first Sunday of every month. The next session will take place in-person and virtually on Sunday, … Continue reading

Free Tickets to South Street’s Windjammer Wavertree, Fri-Sun Through October 2021

The South Street Seaport Museum is offering FREE tickets to tour the 1885-built windjammer Wavertree on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through October 2021, with timed entry, from 11am-5pm at Pier 16 on Manhattan’s East River, (Fulton and South Streets).  From … Continue reading

East & West Coast Online Chantey Sings — NY’s South Street Seaport & SF’s Hyde Street Pier

We have posted previously about New York’s South Street Seaport Museum’s monthly virtual Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music events that take place on the first Sunday of every month. The next Virtual Chantey Sing is this Sunday from 2-4. Click … Continue reading

South Street Seaport Hosts an Afternoon of Online Sea Chanteys, Sunday, July 5, 202

In May, we posted about the virtual return New York’s South Street Seaport Museum‘s monthly Chantey Sing.  It was great fun. The next Seaport Chantey sing is scheduled for this Sunday, July 5th. From the Seaport press release:  South Street … Continue reading

Virtual Shanty/Chantey Sing, Part 1 — South Street Seaport

New York’s South Street Seaport Museum‘s monthly Chantey Sing is returning virtually, this Sunday, May 3rd from 2-4pm. From the Seaport announcement: From our living rooms and kitchens, and even from the deck of Wavertree, join our round-robin of shared … Continue reading

South Street Seaport Schooner Lettie G Howard Heading for Lake Erie

The South Street Seaport Museum‘s historic Georges Banks fishing schooner Lettie G. Howard will be spending the next two summers in Lake Erie at the Erie Maritime Museum in a collaboration with the Flagship Niagara League. The schooner will be partnering with … Continue reading

Windjammer Peking Returning to Hamburg from New York in the Spring

German media is reporting that sometime next spring, the historic Laeisz Flying P-Liner Peking is expected to leave New York harbor, where she has been a museum ship at the South Street Seaport Museum for over 40 years. She will be returning to … Continue reading

Peter Stanford, South Street Seaport Museum Founder, Dies at 89

Peter Stanford, an icon of maritime historical preservation in the United States, died yesterday at the age of 89. In 1967, Peter and his wife Norma founded the South Street Seaport Museum on New York City’s East River waterfront. Peter Stanford … Continue reading

Sea Shanty Sessions 20th Anniversary Celebration at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor

In the summer of 1995, a group of lovers of the music of the sea got together on the deck of the windjammer Peking at the South Street Seaport Museum on the East River in New York to sing sea shanties. … Continue reading

South Street Seaport Museum to Get $10.4 Million Federal Funding for Superstorm Sandy Repairs

Great news!  Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) and the South Street Seaport Museum announced that the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is awarding the museum $10.4 million from FEMA’s Public Assistance Program as part of federal efforts to … Continue reading

Secrets of New York: Captains, Pirates and Ghosts

“Captains, Pirates and Ghosts,” from the documentary series, Secrets of New York, hosted  by Kelly Choi.  It includes some nice shots of the South Street Seaport Museum‘s schooner Pioneer, with commentary by the museum’s Executive Director, Captain Johnathon Boulware.  Segments from the Bridge Cafe, … Continue reading

New York — A Tough Town for Historic Ships

A recent article in the TribecaTribOnline was titled, “Two Historic Sailing Ships Could Dock at Seaport This Summer.” The story is that Jonathan Boulware, the South Street Seaport Museum’s interim president, is working very hard to arrange dock space for … Continue reading

Spring Revival at the South Street Seaport Museum on the Street of Ships

This Saturday, the South Street Seaport Museum celebrated its Spring Revival with the grand re-opening of Pier 16 and the Street of Ships. The ceremony began with the ringing of the bell on the historic lightship Ambrose built in 1907. The … Continue reading

Statement on Museum of City of New York’s Oversight of South Street Seaport Museum

Many of us are still realing from the news that the Museum of the City of New York is withdrawing from managing the South Street Seaport Museum as of July 5, 2013.  The future of New York’s premier maritime museum is … Continue reading