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The Tideshift Project: Session 3 | Episode 277

The Waterfront Museum presents the final session of The Tideshift Project, featuring stories of waterfront workers from the pre-containerization era and people working in today’s final mile shipping industry. Tideshift is …

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Waterfront

Barge Family Reunion Celebration: The Tideshift Project, Session 2 | Episode 274

The Waterfront Museum presents the Barge Family Reunion Celebration, stories and images from people who have lived and worked aboard barges and their families. This is the second part of The …

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Waterfront

St. George Ferry Virtual Tour | Virtual Program | Episode 273

While the Staten Island Ferry is the oldest continuously operating ferry line in New York City, the NYC Ferry to the island is the newest. Ride with us from the …

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Waterfront

Trains, Transit, and Tunnels: Understanding the Bay Ridge Branch and the Interborough Express | Episode 265

With the recent release of a feasibility study by the MTA on the “Interborough Express,” a little-known stretch of train tracks is suddenly in the news. The Bay Ridge Branch is a …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
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Waterfront

New York City’s Lost Canals | Episode 264

While New York City sat at the nexus of many important canals built in the 19th century — the Erie, Morris, and Delaware & Raritan among them — the city …

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Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Inside Staten Island Ferry John F. Kennedy with Engineer Angus McCamy | Episode 262

Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, and Paul Italia made waves last month when they bought retired Staten Island Ferry John F. Kennedy. While we don’t know where this future comedy club will …

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Waterfront

Economy, Access, and Resilience: Staten Island’s North Shore with the Waterfront Alliance, Part 2 | Episode 254

In the second installment of this series on the history and ecology of Staten Island’s North Shore, we are joined by Karen Imas, Senior Director of Programs at the Waterfront Alliance to …

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Waterfront

Soundview Ferry Virtual Tour | Episode 253

Take a ride to the Bronx on this virtual tour of the Soundview Route on NYC Ferry, as we discuss important landmarks of NYC’s history of housing, food, and exclusion. …

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Waterfront

The Tideshift Project: Session 1 with the Waterfront Museum | Episode 246

The Waterfront Museum presents The Tideshift Project, an oral history collecting event presented live aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad No. 79 wooden lighterage barge moored in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This three-part …

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Waterfront

A Brief History of Wire Rope: Re-Rigging the Peking | Episode 241

Wire rope helped build many New York City landmarks in the nineteenth century, most notably the Brooklyn Bridge, but it quickly became an essential tool in the maritime industry as …

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Waterfront

Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era | Episode 239

In colonial New York, reliable power came from muscles (human and animal), firewood, and tides. From Spuyten Duyvil to Marine Park, Wallabout Bay to Flushing Bay, settlers turned many tidal …

Gowanus
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Rockaway Ferry Virtual Tour | Episode 235

The fastest way to the beach is on the NYC Ferry, so join us for another virtual boat tour as we cruise the Lower New York Bay. We will pick up …

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Waterfront

Titanic Homecoming: A Quiet Sea Project with Charlie Deroko | Episode 228

In 1998, a 15-ton, 26-foot-by-12-foot section of Titanic’s hull was salvaged from the wreck. Since its raising, this powerful remnant of that ship of near-mythic status has been on exhibit …

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Waterfront

The World in a Box: The 65th Anniversary of Containerized Shipping with Marc Levinson | Episode 211

On April 26, 1956 an oil tanker customized to carry standardized metal crates left Port Newark, NJ for Houston, TX, marking the first commercially successful containerized shipment. Over the next …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
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Virtual Tour of Upper Manhattan Waterways with Classic Harbor Line | Episode 207

Join us for another virtual boat tour aboard a beautiful motor yacht with our friends at Classic Harbor Line. This time we will be heading north, exploring the very northern tip …

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Waterfront

Where is Pete Panto? Corruption and Crusaders on NYC’s Waterfront | Episode 202

New York City’s working waterfront has been widely associated with crime and corruption at least since On The Waterfront hit movie screens in 1954, but the story goes back further. Nathan …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
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Waterfront

Delaware & Raritan Canal / Camden & Amboy RR with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Episode 198

The Canal Society of New Jersey returns to our virtual program as Joe Macasek will share the history of the Delaware & Raritan Canal. While George Macculloch was working to complete his Morris …

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Waterfront

The Other Dutch in Our Region | Episode 196

Take a short trip west of New York City to explore a little-known and much misunderstood language and culture: the Pennsylvania Dutch, who aren’t Dutch at all but German. Educator …

Architecture
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