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.

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