What are the objects that have brought you comfort, companionship, or connection? If your favorite keepsake is a product manufactured in the past 50 years, there’s a good chance that it spent part of its time getting to you inside a shipping container. During the pandemic, social media has been overrun by some of our favorite topics – sea shanties, birdwatching, and now container ships. The grounding of the 20,000-TEU Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal and roughly one-tenth of global sea trade, captured the world’s attention for six days. While this mega-ship plies the East Asia–Europe routes, and is 30% larger than the biggest ship we’ve ever had in New York Harbor, our New York City waterfront is deeply connected to the same global trading routes that were stopped up.
Turnstile Tours Releases First Annual Benefit Report
You may have seen on our website or promotional materials that Turnstile Tours is a “New York State-registered Benefit Corporation” and wondered, what on earth does that mean? To …
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Épinal Prints from World War I
Below is a selection of prints from the renowned firm Imagerie d’Épinal from the collections of the Musée de L’Image and the French Ministry of Culture. These paper dolls can …
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Oral History | Aug 2020 Member Newsletter
Oral history is such a critical part of our work because it helps to illuminate the lived experience of people in the places where we work. There are limits to …
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