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I have a big surprise below and some requests of you.
Will you join me and PortSide in opening the minds and shaping the lives and futures of children? Our work introduces them to ships and marine life, features of their city that they would otherwise not get a chance to explore.
Will you support our work saving and repurposing the MARY A. WHALEN, an oil tanker that helps people understand the timely topics of fuel distribution and consumption? Passionate fans of the MARY, young and old, near and far, new and familiar, will be so grateful if you do.
Will you help us prepare people for major floods and develop news ideas for how to do so?
Below you can see some 2019 examples of PortSide's impactful, innovative work on such topics. More coming in the next newsletter.
Please give PortSide a year-end
donation
and help us give to others all year long.
Mail checks made out to PortSide NewYork to 190 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Thanks!
As
always, thanks for your support! Please read on below.
Best,
Carolina Salguero
Founder & Executive Director
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Exciting news! Major restoration boost!
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| Part of the Fairbanks Morse 37E12 engine in our ship, built in 1938. |
On Monday, a power plant in the Midwest called and offered us a complete vintage engine whose parts will complete the cannibalized engine in our historic ship
MARY A. WHALEN!
Preservation and community development need LONG-TERM WORK, and we do it! We first contacted them in 2014 and visited in 2016. This incredible gift is the result of our 10+ years of calling around the USA chasing tips (and acquiring some parts in the past). The ship is an educational center, and the engine restoration work will be educational too. T
o support, donate here.
Education, opening horizons to youth in their own backyard
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This year's PS 676 1st graders had not heard of horseshoe crabs before classes with us.
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Talk about impact! PortSide introduced maritime programs to PS 676 one year ago. In just over a semester, we
inspired PS 676
to become Brooklyn's 1st public maritime elementary school! It's here in Red Hook, serving students who live in public housing and in shelters. We continue serving the school, developing and delivering custom curricula, living up to our mission to be "a living lab for better urban waterways," a place that is actively testing and growing uses for the harbor. See us in action in
videos
of Hermit Crab Day 1 with the 1st grade. To support, donate here.
Resiliency, our impact at local, City and federal level
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Bioluminesence, government, media, a board member, and community attended.
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We inspired the
FEMA Sandy High Water Mark program with a proposal we made while on a speaker's panel for winners of the White House "Champions of Change" award. NYC Emergency Management adopted the program. In October, with two crew dressed as bioluminesence to get the event greater attention on social media, we unveiled one of the signs at the pedestrian entrance to Atlantic Basin, where people go to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, NYC Ferry, Pier 11 and PortSide.
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Missed our last newsletter? Visit the
archive
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Looking for fascinating "did you know?" WaterStories content plus news about PortSide? Follow our social media. The liveliest portal is Facebook page
Mary A. Whalen due to how long we have developed a community there. We are on
Twitter and
Instagram too.
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PortSide NewYork is a living lab for better urban waterways.
We connect New Yorkers to the benefits of their waterfront, and advocate for better uses of the waterfront and waterways.
We bring the community ashore and community afloat closer together for the benefit of all. We bring WaterStories to life!
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