@NYCMayor we like how you’re fixing problems reported on social media. Here’s one: please resolve PortSide’s real estate saga and bring #economicjustice to RedHook. We won an EDC RFP of 2007, and they promised us a permanent home but did not deliver. It’s a long story, but in terms of your focus: the EDC continually creates impediments with the kind of red tape and abusive landlord treatment you want to change. Recently, the EDC put out an RFEI to do something they have blocked us from doing for years: create a pipeline to marine careers for NYCHA residents from #RedHook and #Gowanus. PortSide should get the space to do this because the EDC promised a permanent PortSide as a community benefit to Red Hook. Because we are best suited to make this pipeline since we are close to this community and to the working waterfront. We educate K-20 already. Because the maritime community has offered us curriculum and partnership many times over the years to create this career pipeline. We have partners now. Because there’s space available where the EDC promised us a permanent home, the Pier 11 shed in Atlantic Basin, next to our historic ship #MaryWhalen. DutchX moved out. Because we are award-winning. Innovative. Impactful. Respected. Beloved. Time to fix this story of economic injustice. Thanks. Standing by. @DMJulieSu @linamkhan @TonyShorris @CMShahanaHanif @CMAlexaAviles @MMitaynes @JoAnneSimonBK52 @RepJerryNadler @NydiaVelazquez @DanWiley1

WHAT a Saturday! The first of our fall #ShipworkSaturdays with kids and adults, experienced and not, from Red Hook and beyond. 🍕Pizza and hang out at the end. 🎵 a concert in the middle of that by Ukrainian Village Voices ⚓️ members of the public stopping in to enjoy #TankerTime 🎂 a crew birthday celebration 📽 Tanner Stallbaumer shooting a documentary of all of it!  🐈‍⬛️ #ShipcatChiclet was so busy monitoring it all. You can pitch in on ShipworkSaturdays 12-5pm through November 21. Please RSVP to Chiclet(at)portsidenewyork.org. If we have balmy weather in December, we will resume shipwork after Thanksgiving weekend. #historicpreservation #historicships #MaryWhalen #RedHook #Brooklyn – at Brooklyn, NY

Here's sound check for Ukrainian Village Voices starting soon! Come enjoy gorgeous voices and support a fundraiser for Ukraine! It's a gorgeous day on the deck of historic ship, tanker #MaryWhalen, next to NYC Ferry #RedHook stop

Shipwork and Ukrainian village voices choir at the same time instagram.com/p/DeIgLg_uPvL/… – at Brooklyn, NY

New "Battery to Bridges" coalition for lower east bank of the East River, advocating for waterfront, maritime, resiliency solutions. #RedHook and Columbia Waterfront, let's build bridges - metaphorically - with them. We share having the EDC has manager of a major part of our waterfronts. ebroadsheet.com/they-cover-t…

We're running #ShipworkSaturdays from this weekend 10/24 through the weekend before Thanksgiving, 11/21. Please RSVP with an email to chiclet(at)portsidenewyork.org. We have to do quiet projects this Saturday 2-3pm since the Ukrainian Village Voices choir will be singing then, so you get to hear maritime songs in Ukrainian at the same time! #HistoricShips #MaryWhalen #historicpreservation #maritime #RedHook

❤ The Red Boats of Red Hook! Tomorrow, Saturday, 10/17/26 is THE only @ohny day with #RedHook sites. 😮 TWO historic ships are open for tours on a drop-in basis. ⚓ The ONLY historic ships run by nonprofits in Brooklyn! 🚶‍♀️ Just 9 short blocks of Conover Street between the two. ⛴ Our ship is to NYC Ferry at the north end of Conover. 🔺12-5pm, see our Mary A. Whalen, home of PortSide NewYork 🔺12-4pm, see Lehigh Valley 79 barge of @MuseumBarge 💩 There ARE subway issues with F/G at Smith/9th Street. 💩 Coney Island-bound F runs express from Jay St-MetroTech to Kings Hwy 💩 G is not stopping between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts & Church Av Manhattan-bound F/G is OK. #HistoricShips #maritimehistory #OHNYwknd #NewYorkisOpen #UnlocktheCity – at Brooklyn, NY

We called the @USACE_NY again. All this rain leads to floating hazards that they will pick up. We put a line on that beast with the bolts until the USACE could pick it up. Doing our part to keep the #NYCFerry lane clear. #RedHook #maritime #workingwaterfront #USACE

TOMORROW #SonsoftheAmericanRevolution, Battle of #Brooklyn Chapter, invite all to commemoration of Prison Ship Martyrs of the #AmericanRevolution. Sat, Oct 10, 2026 12-1:30pm #FortGreene Park @ Monument Plaza RSVP zeffy.com/.../prison-ship-ma… More than 11,500 men and women are memorialized at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument. "This event will also recognize the broader story of those who contributed to the American cause—including the vital support of France, Spain, the Netherlands; the Irish and Irish Americans; and the service and sacrifice of free and enslaved Black men and women whose stories form an important part of our Revolutionary history." "Together, these stories remind us that the struggle for American independence crossed national, racial, and cultural boundaries and was sustained by people from many different backgrounds." #AmericanHistory #RevolutionaryWar #prisonships See less

In this frame, #RedHook #Brooklyn bargeport of @HFirms & Reinauer Transportation. Their tenant NYPD evidence lot on the left. Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse in background. – at Vineyard Haven, MA

Our October 5 newsletter: • BMT updates • NYC needs a maritime agency again • 9/11 anniversary – importance of local maritime • Action items • PortSide impact • Our October programs bit.ly/PSNYnews10-5-26 – at Brooklyn, NY

𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! Fri 10/9, 6-9pm, join us at opening of Rusty Zimmerman's #RedHook #FreePortraitProject, at Strong Rope Brewery, 175 Van Dyke St, BK 11231 (enter Barnell St side of building) The next 4 are on our ship, the tanker #MaryWhalen, west end of Pioneer St, 202 Clinton Wharf, next to Red Hook NYC Ferry stop. Sat 10/10, 6-10pm, last 2026 SecondSaturdays #TankerTime potluck BBQ! Ends with a tough trivia game by Nicolas Anderson Sat, 10/17, 12-5pm #TankerTours of tanker #MaryWhalen for @ohny weekend. Come volunteer! Wed, 10/21, 6-7:30pm Sally Frances book reading "Carroll Gardens Story," a Halloween-themed whodunit set in late 1990s Carroll Gardens. Rain date Thurs, 10/22. Sat, 10/24, 2-3pm #TankerTunes concert: Ukrainian Village Voices choir, a #fundraiser for #Ukraine. With Red Hook's own Jennifer Stepanyk! Max audience of 60. UVV will set up an RSVP link soon.

The Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) could serve as such a staging area for repair of the BQE cantilever – at Jersey City, NJ

How can we get people to do a better job of keeping litter off our streets?! Here's what the water around the #MaryWhalen looks like around midday Tuesday 9/29/26 after last weekend's nor'easter. During storms, litter blows directly into the harbor or goes down into street storm drains and out into the harbor because of our combined sewer system. #microplastics #streetlitter #flooding #stormwatermanagement #RedHook #Brooklyn – at Jersey City, NJ

@inBKLYN @KPBrend @Annie_McDonough @JCColtin @samarkhurshid @jangelooff @TheIndypendent @GiniaNYT @SamSifton @WinnHu @erinmdurkin @RedHookStar @katie_honan @davidbrand @HannahKliger @gregmocker @jwalkreporter @MaraGay @CiaraReports @sallygold

Best seat in the house! Not! Another reminder that the EDC thinks it's a good idea to put thousands of condos in BMT.. 💦 in a flood zone 🚨 on subsiding 19th century fill ⚠️ with drainage problems 💩 where there's a lack of sewer, water, and electrical capacity ⚓️ We think what should be in BMT is maritime because we need more space for it AND because it MUST to be on the waterfront. Mon, 9/28/26, 6-8pm, Sacred Hearts Church, come to a maritime-focused BMT Community Forum *How the BMT can benefit Brooklyn* #flooding #BrooklynMarineTerminal #maritime #resiliency – at Brooklyn, NY

Breaking! Speakers revealed for Monday’s BMT community forum. 👏 Special remarks from Congresswoman “la Luchadora” @RepVelazquez This BMT nonsense would not have occurred if she and @RepJerryNadler had not been redistricted out of here. Panel “The Maritime Voice” ⚓️ Jim Tampakis, Marine Spares ⚓️ Geoff Uttmark, TransTech, ShipShares, naval architect ⚓️ Phaedra Thomas, BK industry expert, ex-ED of SBIDC PortSide is one of the community sponsors. We’ll be there tabling. Monday, 9/28/26, 6-8pm, Sacred Hearts & St Stephens Church, 125 Summit Street RSVP at bit.ly/BMTforum #maritime #BrooklynMarineTerminal #redhook #columbiawaterfront #Brooklyn – at Brooklyn, NY

These videos were shot from the Mary Whalen around high tide this morning (8:20am). The compilation explains flooding, CSOs, tides, and how to get free data from our Davis Weather weather station. See also, the resiliency section in our virtual museum RedHookWaterStories. Today, the wind gusts are also high enough to blow big debris and take down branches and trees, so take care going out or avoid that unless really necessary. #resiliency #flooding #RedHook #Brooklyn #stormwatermanagement – at Brooklyn, NY