Brooklyn’s Shore: Tides and Time

Columbia Waterfront to Brooklyn Heights, New York Dock Company lithograph, 1911

Join the Center for Architecture for a conversation about Brooklyn’s waterfront and its relationship to local and American history. Author and curator Robert Sullivan will be in attendance. His exhibition, Sea Level, documents the contemporary state of New York City’s shoreline and the many historiesfamous, forgotten, or minor, that have gone into shaping the present.

Sullivan shows us a side of the city we could otherwise easily miss. His earlier books investigate the city’s ratscape, turn up the ruins of Penn Station in a truck park in the Meadowlands and traverse the days when the Gowanus Canal was an oyster-filled creek that served as a vital escape route for the Continental Army.

In this talk, Sullivan will ruminate on how the geography and topography of Brooklyn’s waterfront shaped the course of war, commerce, daily life and the present. This program is part of a series of programs accompanying Sea Level: Five Boroughs at Water’s Edge. Each program will examine the physical layers of the past as they relate to the historical and emotional dimensions of the city.

Price
: Free, RSVP requested.

Seaport Culture District, 181 Front Street

Center at the Seaport will be open:

Monday: 12-4pm
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-8pm











When: Mon., Oct. 5, 2015 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton St.
212-748-8600
Price: Free
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Columbia Waterfront to Brooklyn Heights, New York Dock Company lithograph, 1911

Join the Center for Architecture for a conversation about Brooklyn’s waterfront and its relationship to local and American history. Author and curator Robert Sullivan will be in attendance. His exhibition, Sea Level, documents the contemporary state of New York City’s shoreline and the many historiesfamous, forgotten, or minor, that have gone into shaping the present.

Sullivan shows us a side of the city we could otherwise easily miss. His earlier books investigate the city’s ratscape, turn up the ruins of Penn Station in a truck park in the Meadowlands and traverse the days when the Gowanus Canal was an oyster-filled creek that served as a vital escape route for the Continental Army.

In this talk, Sullivan will ruminate on how the geography and topography of Brooklyn’s waterfront shaped the course of war, commerce, daily life and the present. This program is part of a series of programs accompanying Sea Level: Five Boroughs at Water’s Edge. Each program will examine the physical layers of the past as they relate to the historical and emotional dimensions of the city.

Price
: Free, RSVP requested.

Seaport Culture District, 181 Front Street

Center at the Seaport will be open:

Monday: 12-4pm
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-8pm

Buy tickets/get more info now