image courtesy of New York Adventure Club

What's a half-sunken yellow submarine doing in an obscure waterway of NYC?

Join New York Adventure Club for an aquatic-themed exploration at Coney Island Creek, where low tide reveals the bones of old ships, boatloads of flotsam, and a lone yellow submarine.

Sunday, June 16
1 PM - 3 PM
 

Led by Underwater New York, our two-mile hike alongside one of New York’s most elusive waterways will include: 

• An overview of Coney Island Creek and the abandoned canal system it was supposed to be a part of

• Stories and myths surrounding this one-time rumrunners’ haven, and ships & people that met their fate in the hidden inlet

• A hike along the waterway, from the ship graveyard in the northwestern section to the yellow submarine on the southern shore

• Sweeping views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Calvert Vaux Park

This excursion would make a great Father's Day gift. Bring your dads and wear long pants and boots (or thick-soled sturdy shoes), as we'll be walking across uneven terrain and through high grass at times. Don't forget your water bottle!

Click here to see pictures from one of our last trips to Coney Island Creek.

Transportation:

By Subway: Take a D, F, N, or Q train to Coney Island-Stillwell Av Station —  Home Depot is a 10-15 minute walk from the station.

By Car: Free parking is available in front of Home Depot.

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New York City is defined by water, yet many of its shorelines are largely unknown. These lyrical photographs, inspired by a Walt Whitman poem, take us on a seasonal journey past sheltered bays, under great bridges and over deep rivers to give us a moving perspective on a megacity we thought we knew so well.

Join photographer Susannah Ray for a discussion of her new book, NEW YORK WATERWAYS, and a reading of Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by poets Amber Atiya, Dena Igusti, and Kelly Sullivan. Presented by Underwater New York in connection with the 2018 Works on Water / Underwater New York artist residency on Governors Island.

Our artist residency program provides an incubator space for diverse investigations of water in the urban environment. Our open studios, performances, conversations, and exhibition feature work from around the world and invite the public into a dialogue about the emerging field of Water Art.

Saturday, September 22, 5:00 PM
Governors Island
Nolan Park, 5B
See map of the island here and ferry schedule here

Brooklyn Historical Society and Underwater New York present six New York artists and writers whose works address the history and future of our waterways. Join photographer Chester Higgins, visual artists Barry Rosenthal, Nancy Nowacek, and Francis Estrada, and poets Cynthia Manick and Wo Chan as they consider New York’s waterfront as a site of continuity and a threshold for political, social, and environmental change.

Offered in connection with the new exhibition “Waterfront” at BHS DUMBO.

For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

Current / Bodies: Art and Action on the Waterfront
with artists Chester Higgins Jr., Barry Rosenthal, Nancy Nowacek, and Francis Estrada and poets Cynthia Manick and Wo Chan, moderated by UNY editor Nicole Haroutunian

Tuesday, January 23
Doors: 6:00 pm
Event: 6:30 pm
$5 General Admission / Free for Members

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REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

Friday, January 5, 7:30 PM, reception to follow
Saturday, January 6, 3 PM & 7 PM
Sunday, January 7, 5 PM, reception to follow

Theaterlab, 357 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018

Tickets are $15 and are available here. 

A Held Posture is a solo performance by multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Hyung Seok Jeon. The piece explores the image impulse of sinking into the deep ocean. What would you see when you get to the bottom? Through a visual investigation of the abyss, the piece explores the sensation of falling and the experience of generational loss. Formal experiments, including puppetry, a live video feed, and a soundscape created with wireless headphones, guide the audience into the intimate and minimal space within the self.

Hyung Seok Jeon is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker from Seoul, South Korea. He began making films when he was 14. As a Fulbright scholar, he earned an MFA in Theatre at Sarah Lawrence College in 2017. In 2014, Jeon’s video work, including his short film Autumn (2014), was installed by the artistic director Robert Wilson at the 21st Watermill Center Annual Benefit. In 2016, he performed in a dance puppetry piece, Tough the Tough (Redux: Steve), directed by David Neumann. In October 2017, he created and performed in How a River Carries You as a part of Puppet BloK 2017 at Dixon Place. His work often centers on selfhood, slowness, and self-reflection through formal experiments with theatrical and visual language on stage.

Producer Underwater New York is a digital platform for creative work inspired by the waterways of New York City. We publish and support work across disciplines and lead programming and excursions around the city’s waterways. A Held Posture extends our scope beyond New York City and takes on the urgency of now, as currents of change—political, social, environmental—create new stakes for how (and where) we live. As it explores the sensation of movement and change, A Held Posture addresses shifting patterns of individual and communal life.

Presented as part of Theaterlab's TLabShares Program.

We are thrilled to announce this panel at the Brooklyn Historical Society; click here for tickets!

Author Jennifer Egan, whose forthcoming novel, Manhattan Beach, led her to years of research about communities on the water's edge, leads this panel in a conversation about Brooklyn's waterfronts, industrial and liminal, as an inspiration to artists.

Panelists include Nicki Pombier, co-founder of the digital journal, Underwater New York, Elizabeth Albert, author of Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: NYC's Forgotten Waterfront, Marilyn Symmes, curator of the new BHS DUMBO exhibition, Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn's Waterfront, and Nathan Kensinger, filmmaker, curator, and one of the photographers whose work is featured in Shifting Perspectives.

Inspired by the Water's Edge
Wednesday, June 21
Doors: 6:00 pm
Event: 6:30 pm
$5 General Admission / Free for Members