PortSide New York and Mary A. Whalen Need Help

PortSide New York, the non-profit, Red Hook based organization that owns and maintains the historic harbor tanker Mary A. Whalen, which has served as a stage for Puccini’s opera Tabarro and floating folk concerts (see photo), hoped to move to new quarters in Atlantic Basin come this June. PortSide has now been told the space will not be available for some time. This puts the organization in a serious bind, as its present location cannot support the activities PortSide has planned. Details on how you can help are at the PortSide website linked above; you can donate by following a link there. There will also be a public meeting at LICH, conference rooms A and B, next Monday, February 27, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with a gathering afterward across Atlantic Avenue at Montero’s. Video after the jump.