In a 19th-century port district with restaurants, shops and bars, the museum has two galleries, a maritime crafts center and eight historic vessels.
In a 19th-century port district with restaurants, shops and bars, the museum has two galleries, a maritime crafts center and a fleet of eight historic vessels.
In this 19th-century port district with restaurants, shops and bars, the museum has two galleries, a maritime crafts center and a fleet of eight historic vessels.
Manhattan: Deep in the heart of downtown Manhattan, hard by the once-dicey, now-toney boutique- and restaurant-filled Meatpacking District, and a stone's throw from some of the city's most avant-garde art galleries, THE MARITIME HOTEL is poised to open this month.
EMPTYING THE BILGE Nonprofit groups devoted to American maritime history but lacking in gallery space have been culling their collections severely in the last year.
There is also a 14th-century Armenian church, an ethnographic museum, and a gallery dedicated to the maritime paintings of Ivan Ayvazovsky.
On Oct. 10, Swann Galleries in Manhattan will offer maritime documents from the Johnson collection (mostly with estimates of a few hundred dollars per lot).
Many see the plaza as a lift for a downtown that has a half-dozen art galleries, excellent restaurants, several historic maritime buildings and a concert hall.
And they join the summer crowds strolling the narrow streets near Little Tub, the other harbor, where seasonal stores compete to supply the requisite T-shirts and maritime knickknacks while higher-end shops and galleries sell fine ceramics and limited-edition prints of lighthouses.
Around the stage is a gallery hung with ropes and other maritime paraphernalia; the actors and a small troupe of precise, lively dancers use staircases to make quick entrances and exits.
