Pacific Standard / 82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY / July 7th / 7pm

For the first six months of 2014, Underwater New York and Trop cross-published Waterfronts, a bi-weekly series of personal essays engaging with the waterways of New York City and Los Angeles. We were thrilled to co-host a reading to celebrate the culmination of the collaboration at Pacific Standard on July 7th, 2014. Steve Mentz, Betsy Bradley, Lisa Kunik, Jess Pastore, Erin Baer and Nicole Haroutunian read their short essays. Pacific Standard represented the LA coast and ordered nautical Heavy Seas beer for the occasion! A full house came out to support the readers, including many UNY contributors. We want to thank our new friends at Trop, Alyssa Vine, Evan Allgood and Tom Dibblee for making the collaboration so successful. Here are a few photos from the event!

Steve Mentz

UNY Founding Editor Nicki Pombier Berger

Lisa Kunik

UNY Editor Helen Georgas

Betsy Bradley

Jess Pastore

Erin Baer

UNY Editor Nicole Haroutunian

Underwater New York was thrilled to co-curate Brooklyn gallery Proteus Gowanus‘s summer 2010 show, the last installment in their year-long series around the theme of Transport–an exploration of How We Get There in our never-ending journey towards our destinations. Transport III with Underwater New York was on view from June 12th to July 17th, 2010, and featured work ranging from paintings to letterpress prints to artist books to photographs to installations and more, all inspired by objects found in the waterways of NYC. Pictured above are our artworks, artifacts, stories in bottles and more as they were installed.