General
SOS Public Meeting June 28
The City’s handover of the Seaport continues…unless we stop it.
The next public meeting of Save Our Seaport will be on Thursday, June 28 in the Southbridge Towers Community Meeting Room (just north of Squire’s Diner), 90 Beekman Street at 6:30 PM.
Please join us! All are welcome!
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SOS Public Meeting May 30
The City’s handover of the Seaport continues… unless we stop it.
SAVE THE DATE
The next public meeting of Save Our Seaport will be on Wednesday, May 30 in the Southbridge Towers Community Meeting Room (just north of Squire’s Diner), 90 Beekman Street at 6:30 PM.
Please join us! All are welcome!
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From the SOS mailbox: Pier 15
Re Pier 15:
I recall Pier 15 as a hive of activity. The Monomoy lifeboats, which where standard WWII design, were used by men's and women’s rowing teams in a network that existed on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts. I’m proud to say that the women’s team, in their first entry to the International Lifeboat Racing Competition, won second place. The New Haven Sharpie schooner had a fanatical group of devotees who sailed the heart out of her, winning places in the annual schooner race for the Mayor’s Cup, (now defunct, a whole ‘nother saga) and once ...
Pier 15
This brief is part of the WHY WE FIGHT FOR THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT series, to inform the public about the struggle to keep the Seaport historic in the face of commercial pressure.
Pier 15
Pier 15 is the two-story structure on the East River between John and Fletcher Streets where Hornblower Cruises docks its sight-seeing and party vessels. It is also home to a bar and outdoor parties.
Pier 15 had been one of the South Street Seaport Museum’s piers until the City of New York took it back, in 2008, as part of a settlement for back rent owed the city. ...
NEW MARKET BUILDING
This brief is part of the WHY WE FIGHT FOR THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT series, to inform the public about the struggle to keep the Seaport historic in the face of commercial pressure.
Fulton Fish Market – New Market Building
The fate of the New Market Building, which is not included in the Seaport Historic District, is among the most urgent issues that will determine the future character of the Seaport. Plans to demolish the building and replace it with a luxury apartment tower were abandoned in 2015, in the face of overwhelming opposition from community ...