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PATCH
09/02/2019
Weird Treasures Line The Bottom Of NYC's Murky Waterways
The website Underwater New York collects oddities found in the city's waters, along with artwork inspired by them. Consider the giraffe whose corpse was reportedly found off the Brooklyn waterfront. Or the piano at the bottom of The Bronx River. Or the silver baby's rattle that washed up further south on Dead Horse Bay. How did these things sink below the surface of New York City's murky waterways — and what accompanies them there?
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Howlround
05/17/2018
The Orphan in Me: Generational Trauma in Hyung Seok Jeon’s A Held Posture
Dominick DeGaetano wrote this beautiful reflection on Hyung Seok Jeon's A Held Posture, produced by Underwater New York.
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Brick Underground
01/12/2017
Some of the Most Interesting Parts of New York City are Underwater
Lucy Cohen Blatter interviewed UNY's Nicole Haroutunian and SILENT BEACHES editor Elizabeth Albert.
Read the piece here.
Lost in the Waterways
Susan Piperato wrote an article about Underwater New York, our upstate connections, and SILENT BEACHES, UNTOLD STORIES for Upstater Magazine.
New York City's Forgotten Beaches
Brian Lehrer interviews SILENT BEACHES, UNTOLD STORIES editor and author, Elizabeth Albert, about some of NYC's forgotten waterfronts.
Listen here.
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Cityscape, WFUV.org
8/31/16
Underwater New York interviewed on Cityscapes
WFUV.org's Cityscape is a weekly program offering "an inside look at the people, places and spirit of New York City and its surroundings, with host George Bodarky." George interviewed Nicki Pombier Berger and Helen Georgas about Underwater New York.
Listen here.
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6SqFt
7/26/16
Underwater New York Offers Found Objects From NYC Waterways to Spark Imagination and Art
The collectors of curious things at Atlas Obscura bring us the work of Underwater New York, a fascinating catalogue of all the weird stuff that’s been found bobbing, sinking or washed-up from the murky depths of the city’s waterways, from a giraffe skeleton to a grand piano, with a bag of lottery tickets thrown in for good measure. In a fascinating study in what-is-it-and-where-is-it-coming from, founder Nicki Pombier Berger and the site’s editors and contributors (artists, filmmakers, musicians, photographers and other storytellers) create contexts for the curiosities that find their way to this aquatic lost and found.
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Atlas Obscura
7/20/16
A Graphic Guide to All the Weird Things in New York City's Waterways
Dead Horse Bay is a sloshing soup of forgotten ephemera. Old shoe soles, broken bottles, fractured horse bones from 19th-century rendering factories and landfills are some of the odd objects that momentarily surface before being swallowed back into the tide. To most people, this beach on the outskirts of southern Brooklyn, New York looks like a swamp of garbage, but for writer, curator, and historian Nicki Pombier Berger, Dead Horse Bay is a playground for the imagination.
Illustration by Michelle Enemark
Underwater New York Visits Seaport Museum
It was hard to imagine a more fitting venue as visitors of the South Street Seaport Museum sat huddled on a recent Thursday evening in a cool, brick-lined room, awaiting Underwater New York’s reading.
Read the rest here!
The article was also reposted on AbsoluteArts.com.
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The New York Times
9/17/2012
Underwater, a Train, a Dinette, and Don’t Forget the Chevy
“For us it’s what can you imagine from your own situation, about an imagined life” — the life of an object that ended up sharing space with the fish, Ms. Berger said.
Obscura Day 2012
UNY was featured in a special article about Osbcura Day 2012 in the April print edition of Time Out New York.
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Bomblog
8/31/2011
Underwater NY Reading at Poets House - August 2011
Underwater NY’s poetry reading on August 24—featuring Matthea Harvey, KC Trommer, Katie Naughton, Danniel Schoonebeek, Allyson Paty, and Cate Marvin—could not have anchored down a better home than at Poets House, a poetry library tucked into the east bank of the Hudson River. Underwater NY is a sort of magical organization, but magical in a dark, unsettling way, their website populated with images of found objects: purses, animal bones, and teapots. And, of course, creepy doll heads. Read the rest here!
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Hudson River Stories
8/4/2011
Gull Under Glass
Earlier this year, Brooklyn artist George Boorujy began putting renderings of ocean birds in bottles and setting them adrift in New York’s waterways in an effort to connect with other New Yorkers and gather information on their interactions with the ocean and local marine life. He recently launched one of his bottles from the deck of The Frying Pan, a lightship docked in the Hudson River, as part of an exhibition New York’s P.P.O.W. Gallery held in collaboration with Underwater New York.
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Unconsumption
6/9/2011
Bottle Vox: Bottle Beach
Dead Horse Bay happens to be the place where the found materials for the Significant Objects X Underwater New York team-up were gathered, by remarkable UNY team.
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Popsugar City
11/3/2010
Underwater New York Discovers the City’s Submerged History
No, this is not a ride at Coney Island or a spectacle to behold at Ripley’s Believe It or Not. And the organization isn’t literally submerged in, say, the Hudson River. Inspired by an early 2009 New York Magazine article about what the New York Harbor harbors beneath its surface, three women — Nicki Pombier Berger, Helen Georgas, and Nicole Haroutunian — took New York’s unexplored sunken treasures into their own hands.
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The New York Times
7/22/2010
City of Water Day Festival
With our views blocked by concrete and metal, it is easy to forget that New York is surrounded by water.
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Hudson River Stories
7/2/2010
Streams of Consciousness
Digital arts journal Underwater New York recently held a reading in Bryant Park devoted to stories inspired by objects found in New York’s waterways. They ranged from the tale of a survivalist family installing a formica dinette in their bunker to that of a peripatetic diplomat regarding a plastic flute.
See footage from the event as well as an interview with UNY editor Helen Georgas here!
Written by:
Jewcy
6/7/2010
Nicki Pombier Berger, Underwater New York
It used to be said of New York that there were “a million stories in the naked city,” but things change. New York isn’t the same crazy metropolis it once was. So where do we go to get great stories from?
Enter Underwater New York: Nicki Pombier Berger and her co-editors Nicole Haroutunian and Helen Georgas. The trio realized that while the world above ground may have become a little more tame, the stories under New York’s bodies of water are numerous, and Underwater New York are finding new and intreresting ways to tell those stories through different mediums.
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The Brooklyn Ink
4/19/2010
Dead Horse Bay, A Living Museum of Trash
At the far southeastern edge of Brooklyn sits Dead Horse Bay. The name is an evocative, and quite literal, one.
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For the Love of Brooklyn
3/29/2010
Obscura Day at Dead Horse Bay
On March 20th, twenty countries all over the world observed Obscura Day by participating in 80 events all designed to celebrate hidden treasures in their local communities. This day was orchestrated internationally by a group called Atlas Obscura, which seeks to send explorers out into the world to investigate the curious, the oddball, and the truly bizarre. Down the rabbit hole, baby.
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Fictonaut
1/10/2010
Checking In with Underwater New York
I decided because the crew is avant-garde and this interview is running on the 1st of the year, to ask the crew just 1 question.
Q (Nicolle Elizabeth for Fictionaut): What is Underwater New York?