SAVE OUR SEAPORT MEETING 1/9/14

Save Our Seaport Meeting Thursday, January 9th 6:30pm St. Margaret’s 49 Fulton St. Please join us for the first Save Our Seaportmeeting of 2014, this Thursday, January 9th. We will be catching up on recent events, and planning for next week's very important Town Hall Meeting.     * * * * * CB1 Seaport Town Hall Meeting Monday, January 13th 6-8pm Pace University - 1 Pace Plaza B-level – Student Union From Community Board 1: "Community Board 1 Town Hall meeting on the Howard Hughes Corporation’s proposed development plans for the South Street Seaport including the Tin Building, New Market Building and surrounding area. All are invited to speak. For more information, call 212-442-5050." Let's be there in full force and protect the South Street Seaport Historic District from developers. You are welcome to speak publicly, as many of us will. * * * * * We hear from our friends at PortSide NewYork that they are in great (and timely) need of some volunteers to help finish the restoration of the galley on the historic tanker Mary Whalen, currently docked on the Brooklyn waterfront. There will be sanding, paint stripping, priming, painting - all those things we volunteers thrive on! If you can spare any time, please contact Carolina Salguero at 917-414-0565 or portsidenewyork@gmail.com * * * * * Speaking of volunteering, South Street Seaport Museum Waterfront Foreman Mike Weiss is looking for hands as well. His latest email to volunteers included the following: "The last Saturday of 2013 had an outstanding attendance from volunteers, and a huge amount of maintenance work was done.  In LETTIE G. HOWARD, work continued on building her cover frame, requiring plenty of ingenuity on the part of her designers, and also in the engine room and in the “Lettie Space” in AMBROSE.  In PEKING, volunteers were chipping, cleaning, and coating the focslehead, and work was happening in her tweendecks on PIONEER’s spars.  Other volunteers were learning carpentry skills, building up the soleboards in our workshop barge PROGRESS’ forward cargo hold, and yet others were scraping, sanding, and priming the wheelhouse top and cabin top of W.O. DECKER. Last year saw a huge resurgence in volunteer activity aboard our ships, and in turn so much more critical work was done.  Thank you all who came in, and with your help, we’ll make 2014 an even more fun and productive year!  Word-of-mouth brings in plenty of recruits, so tell your friends and family to come by and join you!  See if your employer has any volunteer contribution programs!  Simple donations like dust masks, nitrile gloves, chip brushes, cotton rags, contractor bags, and the like make a HUGE impact on our ability to get work done!  Memberships provide us with funds to get new materials and repairs!  So many of you have already helped out in these simple ways, and it’s because of all of you that we’re able to carry on with our important mission of preserving these ships and New York City maritime history!" Contact Mike at mweiss@seany.org Pitch in as little or as much time as you can for our beloved Museum and Ships!