New York’s Seaport Museum Struggles to Stay Afloat

Update: The Seaport Museum “temporarily” laid-off another twelve staff members on Monday afternoon. More bad news from the South Street Seaport.   Last week the Seaport Museum laid off the captain of the schooner Pioneer, as well a marine educator … Continue reading

Fifth Annual Remembering Fulton Fish Market Art Exhibit 2010

A wonderful show by Naima Rauam.  It captures everything about the old market with the possible exception of the smell of fish. Fifth Annual Remembering Fulton Fish Market Art Exhibit 2010 … Continue reading

SS Normandie’s Steam Whistle Blows Again at the Seaport

Last Thursday, the mellifluous blast of the SS Normandie‘s steam whistle once gain reverberated across the piers of the South Street Seaport in New York.   The blowing of the steam whistle celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of French luxury liner to New York seventy five years … Continue reading

John Stobart and the Ships of South Street

Last year the National Maritime Historical Society (NMHS) published a fascinating booklet, John Stobart and the Ships of South Street, which features the pre-eminent maritime artist’s paintings of ships arriving or departing from New York’s South Street docks. At first the presentation struck me as odd.  The … Continue reading