PortSide NewYork seeks to breathe life into the relationship between landside communities and the bassador in this mission is the tanker Mary Whalen.Our approach is to create activities and spaces that benefit both groups, nurture economic connections between the two, foster their mutual appreciation, and make the waterfront neighborhood they share a better place to live, work and visit. PortSide NewYork will develop and operate a Maritime Hub including a museum exploring contemporary maritime practices; host recreational, educational and cultural programs and retail services; and run a maritime career center. PortSide NewYork manifests a new vision for how to revitalize New York City’s waterfront and create waterside public spaces without displacing the maritime functions essential to the city’s transportation infrastructure.

The Toy Museum of NY

First established in 1999 as The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC, the not-for-profit educational museum changed its name to The Toy Museum of NY in Spring 2009 in celebration of its 10th anniversary. The new name reflects the Museum’s coveted distinction, by the New York State Department of Education, as the holder of the only New York Charter for a toy museum.

The exhibitions are set up using the Museum’s innovation and ingenuity, and proven success displaying toys – along with informative signage – to educate children about historic events such as the Invention of the Airplane, Automobiles, Child’s Past and Immigration, just to name a few.

Since its founding, the Museum has curated many successful touring exhibitions that have been visited by thousands of children, parents and teachers. These exhibitions have been on display through partnerships with the New York Transit Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum as well as many other prominent museums throughout the USA and libraries in New York City.

Tabla Rasa Gallery

Tabla Rasa is an acclaimed art gallery that profiles works of emerging, mid- career, and established artists of Brooklyn, New York, and the United States. Located in a turn of the century carriage house in industrial Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Tabla Rasa presents solo and group exhibitions in a wide range of styles, themes and media.Artist/Directors Audrey Frank Anastasi and Joseph Anastasi are committed to the visual arts as an expression of the human spirit and a voice for social issues. Bringing their ongoing experience with nonprofit art organizations, they are committed to presenting an accessible, friendly, non-intimidating, yet high quality art viewing venue.

UrbanGlass

UrbanGlass is a leading resource for both aspiring and established artists wishing to create with glass. We foster innovative art and advance the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium. We offer a variety of classes, workshops and open houses, along with the display of various intriguing exhibits throughout the year.

Waterfront Museum

A “floating museum and showboat barge” housed aboard the last remaining covered wooden barge lovingly restored and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A National Park Service “National Maritime Education Initiative” Award Winner. Visitors learn first hand the geography of the New York Harbor, the history of the Tug and Barge “Lighterage Era” (1860-1960) and how food true free to use hookup apps for married and commercial goods were transported prior to today’s bridges and tunnels. Also experience the exciting story of the rescue of Barge #79 by a clown and juggler and enjoy the captain’s showboat performance. Current 2008 Exhibition: “SHOWBOAT -‘Round the Bend!” produced in partnership with The Theater Museum tells the history and story of the American Floating Theatres along our nation’s waterways including those in NY State. ALSO: Great views of Statue of Liberty, NY Harbor, and the ever-popular Kinetic Ball Machine Sculpture by artist George Rhoades.