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Captain Greg speaks of life on the water

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Captain Greg of 麻豆射区 speaks of life on the water.  Epic Times interviews him to get the perspective of the person behind the wheel of a yacht.  

鈥淵ou have to commune with Mother Nature, you have to deal with the elements. You鈥檙e not dealing with external forces, you鈥檙e not dealing with other people鈥攕omething happens to you, you can鈥檛 blame somebody else,鈥 Freitas says. 鈥淵ou have to be self-reliant, you have to rely on yourself. It鈥檚 just you. It鈥檚 proof of existence.鈥

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Life of a Captain

Captain of NY Harbor
Life on the water with Captain Greg

AIANY Architecture and the Lights of Gotham.

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NYC Architecture at Night

AIANY Architecture and the Lights of Gotham

Building on the successful ten-year collaboration between AIANY and 麻豆射区, this new architecture boat tour capitalizes on the remarkable skyline of Manhattan after sunset. From the time the Brooklyn Bridge was inaugurated with dazzling lights and fireworks in 1883, architects and lighting designers have understood the importance of presenting their structures in the night sky. 鈥淭he city that never sleeps鈥 is stunningly illuminated more than ever. Today鈥檚 designers have a sophisticated array of sources, colors and programs to operate their lighting systems. Take to the waters with an expert AIANY guide to see the latest in how architects and lighting designers are creating a new, more dynamic nighttime experience. View the famously mesmerizing lights of Manhattan and explore the latest trends and innovations in architectural lighting. There really is no better way to capture this view as the iconic NYC skyline reflects off the surrounding waters. This two hour-and fifteen-minute narrated cruise will depart at sunset from Chelsea Piers in Manhattan and will include the Lower Hudson River, the Upper Bay and the East River. Prominent examples include the Statue of Liberty from 1886, the Woolworth Tower in 1913, the 1931 Empire State Building, and New York City鈥檚 latest supertall building, One World Trade Center.. Duration: 2.25 hrs  Boat: Manhattan or Manhattan II  Cost: Adult $86 | Student $68

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Check out our other Architecture Tours by clicking here.

  • AIANY Around Manhattan: NYC Architecture (AIA CES 2.5 LU/HSW)
  • AIANY Around Manhattan: Bridges & Infrastructure (AIACES 2.5 LU/HSW)
  • AIANY Lower Manhattan Architecture (AIA CES 1.5 LU/HSW)
  • AIANY Architecture and the lights of Gotham (AIA CES 2 LU/HSW)

Women in Architecture

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Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a special networking architecture cruise focused on a wide range of waterfront projects designed or built byWomen in Architecture NYC women. AIANY guide Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, will welcome several expert guest speakers (TBA), who collectively will provide lively narration covering architecture and engineering landmarks from all eras of the city鈥檚 history, as well as current urban planning and environmental issues impacting urban waterfronts. We鈥檒l cruise the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers, and explore women鈥檚 contributions to the recent transformation of an industrial waterfront to one of booming real estate development, ecologically-driven landscape design, and resilient infrastructure. Tour features include iconic Art Deco spires, historic engineering marvels, adaptive reuse, and progressive waterfront parks.

Featured women-led projects will include the Statute of Liberty Museum, Pier 55 (a dramatic public park and performance space in the Hudson River), Governors Island, Hudson River Park and Long Island City waterfront projects, Pier 42 (a critical missing link of public access along the shoreline), Rockefeller University, the East River Waterfront Esplanade, the new Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, the Domino Sugar Refinery Development, and American Copper Buildings.

Special guest speakers will include:

Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA: Julie is a project manager at Urban Projects Collaborative, an owner鈥檚 representative firm representing mission-driven organizations. As a founding member of the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee, Julie helped develop the AIANY boat and walking tour programs and has guided a variety of tours across both platforms.

 Signe Nielsen, FASLA: Signe is a Principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, and has been practicing as a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978. Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work and play in the urban realm. 

Cameron Ringness: Cameron is an architect, artist and poet originally from Cleveland, Ohio, living and working in New York City. She was the lead designer of the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island with FXCollaborative Architects and is currently the lead designer for the new Children’s Museum of Manhattan to be completed in 2021.

Hayes Slade: Hayes is the 2019 AIANY Chapter President and a Principal at Slade Architecture, which creates thoughtful and impactful architecture based on a considered examination of program potential, user perspective, and material sensibility. She co-authored Design Guidelines for NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and Slade Architecture has been part of the NYC Design Excellence Program at the NYC Department of Design and Construction for four terms. 

Ayumi Sugiyama: Ayumi is the Director of Cultural Projects at SHoP Architects, and has expertise in the design and delivery of complex urban projects with significant public space programs and complicated stakeholder groups. Ayumi has acted as project director for several of the firm鈥檚 most prominent and award-winning projects, including the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn and the American Copper Buildings and the New Academic Building at FIT in New York.

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Statute of Liberty Museum: 

https://www.fxcollaborative.com/projects/175/Statue%2520of%2520Liberty%2520Museum/

Pier 55, Governors Island, Hudson River Park, and Long Island City waterfront projects, Pier 42 and Rockefeller University:  

https://www.mnlandscape.com/projects

East River Waterfront
SHoP鈥檚 14 million sf plan for the East River Waterfront Esplanade and Pier 15 brings an innovative approach to the integration of the city and its post-industrial urban edge, capitalizing on the opportunity to function as a recreational space totally unique to Manhattan. Unable to be rooted in the picturesque tradition prevalent in parks around the city, instead the park seeks to embody the heritage of its long history as a working waterfront and at the same time embrace the many urban anomalies, such as the FDR Drive. The design takes a systematic approach to revitalizing an area once overflowing with waterfront activity by focusing on connecting the city to the water鈥檚 edge, activating the waterfront year-round by providing new cultural, community, commercial and recreational nodes along its entire length.

Pier 17
SHoP鈥檚 design for the new Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport re-imagines the mall to create a mix of boutique and large restaurant and retail spaces. The new 300,000 sf design echoes the typical New York streetscape, with smaller individual structures housing shops and restaurants, separated by open-air pedestrian thoroughfares. Two large floors stretch out above the small shops as a roof, each measuring 60,000 sf. Enormous glass garage-style doors descend in bad weather to seal in the lower levels of the complex, offering protection from the elements while still opening up previously blocked views of the Brooklyn Bridge. The new Pier 17 will completely transform the existing building into a vibrant destination that builds on Lower Manhattan鈥檚 commercial resurgence, continued residential growth, and evolution into a 24/7 live/work/play community.

Domino Sugar Refinery Development / 325 Kent
With Two Trees Management Company, SHoP and Field Operation鈥檚 master plan for the Domino Sugar Refinery Development replaces a city-approved 2010 plan with a new proposal that adds 60% more publicly-accessible open space on a new, highly accessible street grid; provides for a new 24/7 mix of office, residential, neighborhood retail, community facilities while retaining original commitments for affordable housing; and a new form of open architecture that connects the existing neighborhood to the new quarter-mile waterfront. The plan envisions a new skyline for Brooklyn鈥攐ne that relates to the height of the Williamsburg bridge to the south and scales down to meet the neighboring lower buildings. The buildings are porous, featuring large openings that allow light and air to penetrate through the site and into the neighborhood beyond.

325 Kent, or Site E, is the first complete building as part of SHoP鈥檚 master plan. Retail storefronts occupy the ground floor perimeter, carefully sized to encourage continuity with the neighborhood’s pattern of smaller, independent businesses. Above, the residential floors step up in terraces from the east, forming a connection to the existing neighborhood. After over a year of on-site testing to study materials that would age gracefully and contribute to the dramatic industrial character of the area, two different sheet metals were chosen for the exterior鈥攃opper for the lower floors, and zinc above. The copper panels were installed without a factory produced finish, creating a dynamic building surface that will weather and patina over time, drawing in visitors and engaging the public as it adapts over the course of its lifespan.

American Copper
Previously the location of a razed power plant on First Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets, the American Copper Buildings have become a dynamic landmark on Manhattan鈥檚 East Side. Responding to an existing master plan for the block and the constraints of an envelope described by New York City鈥檚 zoning code, the two towers, reaching to 48 and 41 stories respectively, take on their characteristic form. The three-story skybridge was then located at the point at which the two towers are closest together. Lounge and amenity spaces for tenants鈥攊ncluding the lap pool and gym鈥攁re located at the bridge level, while the roof of the north tower houses a second swimming pool and a rooftop bar overlooking the entire city. At grade, a through-block passageway opens to a new public park on the river side of the site. A structure as alive as the city it inhabits, the striking set of towers are already becoming icons on the Manhattan waterfront. The buildings鈥 fa莽ade will patina over time, transforming from the red copper they are today to a mint green that evokes the Statue of Liberty, just down the river from the project鈥檚 site. 


Woman Architecture Tour

AIANY Women in Architecture NYC Boat Tour

Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a special networking architecture cruise focused on a wide range of waterfront projects designed or built by women. AIANY guide Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, will welcome several expert guest speakers (TBA), who collectively will provide lively narration covering architecture and engineering landmarks from all eras of the city鈥檚 history, as well as current urban planning and environmental issues impacting urban waterfronts. We鈥檒l cruise the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers, and explore women鈥檚 contributions to the recent transformation of an industrial waterfront to one of booming real estate development, ecologically-driven landscape design, and resilient infrastructure. Tour features include iconic Art Deco spires, historic engineering marvels, adaptive reuse, and progressive waterfront parks.

  Duration: 2.75 hrs  Boat: Manhattan or Manhattan II  Cost: Adult $86 | Student $68

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Fleet Week Military History Tour

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Every year during Fleet Week, we partner with Turnstile Tours to offer a memorable boat cruise about the military history of New York Harbor.  We will focus on the activity of the Harbor during World War II.  We will depart from Chelsea Piers, aboard the beautiful motor yacht Manhattan and visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Army Terminal, and USS Intrepid, as well as other historic and military sites along the New Jersey and Brooklyn shores. Along the way, we share the stories of sailors, shipbuilders, longshoremen and merchant mariners who built New York Harbor into the heart of the American war effort. So step aboard and enjoy this educational cruise with us out in the Harbor.  

 

Military History Tour of New York Harbor

Military History Tour of New York Harbor

In honor of our National Holiday Weekends, 麻豆射区 and Turnstile Tours have teamed up to offer a special series of Naval Harbor History Tours! Join us on Memorial Day Weekend (and Fleet Week), for a special, in-depth tour of our rich harbor-related war history.  This special 2.5-hour tour will explore the military history of New York Harbor from the Revolutionary War to today, with special emphasis on the role of the port in World War II. We will visit historic military sites, monuments, fortifications and see historic and modern fighting ships up close (especially during Fleet Week).

  Duration: 2.5 hrs  Boat: Manhattan  Cost: Adult $68
 

An Architectural Tour Around Manhattan

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By Marian Betancourt

Photos by Bridget McFall

Most of the curious crowds visiting the repurposed Hudson Yards are on land, strolling along a foundation built over rail yards, but this newly created West Side NYC Architecture Boat Tourneighborhood makes an impressive addition to the Manhattan skyline when viewed from the water. The fittingly named art piece, 鈥淰essel,鈥 a staircase to the endless imagination, sits at center stage in an open space near the waterfront surrounded by new skyscrapers. New York has always been a city in progress and the skyline changes periodically, so it鈥檚 a good idea, even for natives, to take a water cruise around the city to get the lay of the land so to speak. 

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Gypsy Jazz Cruise

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Vive la France!The NYC Skyline from the perspective of NY Harbor on a Beautiful Sunny Day

Step aboard the Manhattan II and back in time with the 1930s-inspired French-style Gypsy Jazz as you witness the city’s beauty and elegance from the water. Guitarist Alex Simon & his trio perform the musical stylings of Django Reinhardt with dazzling technique and lyrical impressionism. It is a bright but elegant style of acoustic swing that evokes the vibrancy of cosmopolitan life and the folkloric sounds of rural Europe, originating in France.

 

From aboard this elegant classic-inspired yacht, start the evening with a slow pass by our most famous gift from France, the Statue of Liberty.  麻豆射区鈥檚 Gypsy Jazz Cruises are offered on select dates in 2019 including these French Holidays: Labour Day (May 1), Bastille Day (July 14) and Armistice Day (November 11)

 

On this cruise you may hear a combination of 1930s French Swing as well as Louis Armstrong hits. Alex Simon has performed at The Guggenheim, B.B. King鈥檚 Main Stage, The Rainbow Room, as well as world-renowned cocktail lounges such as Milk & Honey, Bathtub Gin, NoMad, The Roxy, and many other of New York City鈥檚 finest venues.

 

Key points about this cruise:

– 2 hours

– $84 per person

– French-inspired Gypsy Jazz music with guitarist Alex Simon & his trio

– Offered aboard Manhattan II

– Includes one complimentary beer, wine or champagne from the bar (additional drinks French-inspired cocktails are available for purchase)

– Seating available in climate controlled cabin or on the outer deck

– Departs from Chelsea Piers Pier 62


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Gypsy Jazz Cruise on the classic Yacht Manhattan II

Step aboard the *Manhattan* or *Manhattan II* and witness the city鈥檚 beauty and elegance, while enjoying some festive Gypsy Jazz with guitarist Alex Simon & his trio. Enjoy music of Django Reinhardt with dazzling technique and lyrical impressionism. This music is a bright but elegant style of acoustic swing that evokes the vibrancy of cosmopolitan life and the folkloric sounds of rural Europe, originating in France. Cruise New York City鈥檚 famous harbor aboard the 1920s-style yacht *Manhattan* or *Manhattan II* while listening to this fabulous trio. On this cruise you may hear a combination of 1930鈥檚 French Swing and Louis Armstrong hits. Alex Simon has performed at The Guggenheim, B.B. King鈥檚 Main Stage, The Rainbow Room, as well as world-renowned cocktail lounges Milk & Honey, Bathtub Gin, NoMad, The Roxy, and many other of New York City鈥檚 finest venues.

  Duration: 2 hrs  Boat: Manhattan or Manhattan II  Cost: Adult $84

World Pride 2019

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World Pride 2019: Trans New York Harbor Pride Sail for the Hetrick-Martin InstituteWorld Pride Sailing in NY Harbor

Sponsored by 麻豆射区

For the benefit of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming youth support programs of the , hosts a series of five weekend benefit sails throughout the duration of the World Pride Festival in New York City.  100% of net ticket sales goes to the Hetrick-Martin Institute.

The benefit sails are Saturdays: June 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, from 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. aboard either the schooner Adirondack or the schooner America 2.0.

Each sail will include a standard bar and mimosas as well as a triumphant flying of their nearly 400 square foot spinnaker cloth Pride Flag.  The flag will be hoisted to the aft-leaded edge of their mainsail as they glide from Chelsea Piers, south on the Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty and back.  This Pride Flag is nearly half the size of schooner 础诲颈谤辞苍诲补肠办鈥檚 mainsail and will certainly prove to be an epic and awe-inspiring experience for all those who see it. 

Take a look at 麻豆射区 is running the month of June. 

Founded in 1979, Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) is the nation鈥檚 oldest and largest nonprofit leader in LGBTQ youth service programming. Today, Hetrick-Martin LogoHMI serves more than 2,000 at-risk youth each year between the ages of 13 and 24 from more than 300 zip codes in New York and throughout the tri-state area, and an additional 8,000 young people through outreach efforts 鈥 as well as countless lives changed by our advocacy, training and capacity building work around the world.

Tickets are $75 per person.

 

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World Pride Sailing in NY Harbor

Trans New York Harbor Pride Sail for the Hetrick-Martin Institute

Celebrate World Pride Month with us and step aboard for an afternoon sail on one of our classic Schooners! 100% of net ticket sales goes to benefit transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth programs of the Hetrick-Martin Institute.  So grab your friends, soak up the sun and sail with us through the waters we proudly call home.  

  Duration: 2 hrs  Boat: Adirondack OR America 2.0  Cost: Adult $75