Admiral’s Row, 1864-2016
Admiral's Row, 1864-2016 evolved out of our artist residency at the Works On Water/Underwater New York project space on Governors Island in July 2019. As part of that residency, we created a video installation titled Shoreline Change with several of our short documentary films about New York's changing waterfront. One of those films documented the decay and destruction at Admiral’s Row, a collection of historic mansions inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Although the water was never visible through the forest that had grown up around Admiral’s Row during its years of abandonment, the homes there were a unique relic of New York’s nautical history, a history which is also reflected in the cracked walls of the former military houses on Governors Island in which we presented the film.
Body of Water
About the Artist
Nathan Kensinger and Nate Dorr have been documenting Brooklyn’s changing waterfront for the last 15 years, photographing and filming all of the powerhouses, sugar refineries, and other historic structures that have vanished from the landscape to be replaced by new glass towers. They started documenting inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard more than a decade ago, including Kensinger’s first visit to Admiral’s Row in 2008 and visits by both artists in 2015.