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Directors and Staff
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Our Board of Directors
 Peter Stanford - Founding Chair Emeritus
Peter Stanford, historian, was the founder of South Street Seaport Museum and is president emeritus of the National Maritime Historical Society. He continues to write about the history of the sea, and was the founding chair of the Working Harbor Committee.
 Dr. Roberta Weisbrod - Chair
Dr. Roberta Weisbrod is principal of Sustainable Ports, a consultancy working on maritime transport of people and freight, waterfront development, and improving urban freight transport. She is a member of the Harbor Ops Steering Committee, a strong advocate for the working harbor, and author of numerous articles about her maritime passion.
 Terry Walton - Vice Chair
Terry Walton is a maritime editor and owner of Rosalie Ink Publications. She has written about New York Harbor for 30 years and was the founding editor of Seaport Magazine and a founding trustee of South Street Seaport Museum.
 Gwen Billig - Secretary
Gwen Billig is a longtime wharf rat who was in charge of developing a harbor plan and municipal pier for Provincetown, MA. She was also involved in the redevelopment of the downtown waterfront area in Nashville, TN, and currently works with a number of New York maritime organizations.
 Alec Walling - Treasurer
Alec Walling, an avid recreational sailor (Cambodia, Caribbean, Connecticut), is a historic housing preservationist, townhouse renovator, and environmental entrepreneur who flies a powered parachute when it's calm.
 Capt. Betsy Frawley Haggerty
Betsy Haggerty was formerly the editor of Offshore Magazine and now works as a freelance maritime writer. She was one of the founders of the North River Historic Ship Society and recently completed an extensive research tour of the NYS Canal System.
 Bonnie A. Harken
Bonnie A. Harken, AIA & APA, is President of Nautilus International, a consulting firm focusing on urban waterfront redevelopment and downtown revitalization. She learned to walk on the deck of SS General Meigs when her parents moved from California to China just after her 1st birthday. Since then she’s lived and worked around the world and has spent her career helping cities reconnect with their waterfronts.
Capt. Peter Johansen
Peter Johansen is Chief Operating Officer for Great American Lines which operates the MV Sunbelt Spirit, a car carrier transporting Toyotas from Japan to the US. Prior to joining GALI, Pete was the Director of Operations for New York Waterway. For thirty years, Pete was a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve, rising to the rank of Captain and is a graduate of SUNY Maritime College with a BS in Marine Transportation.
Capt. Carleen Lyden-Kluss
Carleen Lyden-Kluss is the founder of Morgan Marketing & Communications which represents the marriage of marketing communications and maritime and the Executive Director of New York Maritime (NYMAR). In addition she was co-founder and Executive Director of North American Marine Environmental Association (NAMEPA) and is the President of the Propeller Club, Chapter of the Port of New York/New Jersey. Carleen was raised on an island in Michigan, and grew up as a competitive sailor dodging ore carriers on Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and St. Claire.
 Capt. John Doswell - Executive Director
Captain John Doswell was a writer, designer, producer and software developer for many years before turning his attention to NYC's waterfront. He serves on the board of several waterfront organizations and founded Friends of Hudson River Park. In addition, he is a waterfront consultant and event producer.
Our Steering Committee
Capt. Betsy Frawley Haggerty - Co-Chair
Betsy Haggerty was formerly the editor of Offshore Magazine and now works as a freelance maritime writer. She was one of the founders of the North River Historic Ship Society and recently completed an extensive research tour of the NYS Canal System.
Alec Walling - Co-Chair
Alec Walling, an avid recreational sailor (Cambodia, Caribbean, Connecticut), is a historic housing preservationist, townhouse renovator, and environmental entrepreneur who flies a powered parachute when it's calm.
Cindy Goulder - Secretary
Cindy Goulder is an ecological landscape designer working on ecological restoration projects in and around New York City and residential and civic landscapes throughout the region. Her commitment to New York Harbor began years ago when she worked for the National Maritime Historical Society on the Brooklyn waterfront.
Louis Kleinman - Backup Secretary
Louis Kleinman is the outreach and group liaison for the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. He is also a hiker, kayaker and mass transit enthusiast. He is active with many different environmental and preservationist organizations.
Mai Armstrong
Mai is a NYC advertising creative who designs branding and marketing services for mid-to-large corporations. Her work with NY/NJ ALS Association and the MDA helped to raise over $2 million for ALS research. She also volunteers with the Newtown Creek Alliance, working to reveal, revitalize and renew the polluted waterway. Mai grew up in Singapore and migrated to NY after some years in the UK and San Francisco.
Ashley
Ashley has salt water in her veins, has been a sailor from since she can't remember when. She is Vice President of the West 44th Street Better Block Association and Friends of Pier 84, which advocated for the public use of Pier 84, site of WHC’s annual tugboat race. She is active as a volunteer with WHC and other waterfront organizations such as North River Historic Ship Society. She enjoys cooking, eating and drinking and loves a good laugh or a tall story.
Capt. Jonathan Atkin
Captain Jonathan Atkin, maritime photographer, specializes in producing powerful and meticulously planned “up close and personal” aerial media for global cargo companies, cruise lines, port authorities, a wide variety of work boats including tug boats, pilot boats, and cable ships. At age 19, Jonathan sailed the Atlantic aboard a bulk carriers as an Ordinary Seaman. He is a contributing writer/photographer to various maritime publications. An unrelenting passion for ships and those who go down to sea in them, brings him to the Working Harbor Committee. He is an advocate for historic vessels and keeps his "hands wet" by commercially piloting NY Harbor small craft.
Chris Berg
Chris Berg has been lurking around the New York City waterfront since he met Mike Davis building a whitehall gig in a storefront next to the Port Authority bus terminal.Chris ran the public rowing program for Floating the Apple for a number of years (where he met his future wife), rolling gigs down 42nd Street to drop them off the edge of Pier 84.He has made himself useful in varying capacities on Frying Pan, Pier 66 Maritime, Working Harbor Committee events and City of Water Day (go MWA!).
Gwen Billig
Gwen Billig is a longtime wharf rat who was in charge of developing a harbor plan and municipal pier for Provincetown, MA. She was also involved in the redevelopment of the downtown waterfront area in Nashville, TN and currently works with a number of New York maritime organizations.
Terri Brennan
Terri Brennan is a lifelong fan of the sea having grown up on Bainbridge Island, rowing everyday, sailing Puget Sound, and traveling the waters of Alaska with her father who, in his 'retirement', captained seagoing tugs. She is active in environmental causes and consults for non-profits here and in Africa.
Barbara Brentano
Barbara Brentano is a Senior Associate at Gladstein, Neandross & Associates, one of the nation's leading environmental consulting firms specializing in emission reduction, energy and transportation policy, and market development for alternative fuel vehicles.
Barbara Brookhart
Barbara Brookhart's interest in marine and waterfront issues started with working for a marine broker in Brooklyn Heights who introduced her to Peter Stanford, president of the Maritime Museum at Fulton Ferry Landing, and Anthony Manheim, founder of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. Brookhart has worked for the Bryant Park Corporation and the 34th Street Partnership business improvement districts for the last 10 years.
RADM Joseph F. Callo, USNR (Ret.)
Joseph Callo has written three books about Admiral Horatio Nelson, and he was US editor of Who's Who in Naval History. His John Paul Jones biography was recently published. Joseph was the WHC's first "Chief of Staff" before we actually had a staff. He is a retired USNR Rear Admiral.
Nelson Chin
Nelson Chin is currently the Operations and System Administrator for University Relations and Public Affairs at New York University. His wide range of interests include aviation, photography, guitar, digital recording, architecture, carpentry and sailing. He is also an active volunteer at the South Street Seaport Museum, Portside New York – Mary A. Whalen, Fireboat John J. Harvey and a Save Our Seaport advocate. His maritime experience began in his teens working on fishing boats and small water crafts. Later his interest shifted to aviation where he was working toward his pilot license flying Cessna 172s. After discovering the Schooner Pioneer at the South Street Seaport Museum in 2009, Nelson has been a fan for tall ships and all things maritime ever since.
Cindy Collins
Cindy Collins' first job with historic ships was to compile information about South Street Seaport Museum’s fleet in 2004-2005. Since then, she has volunteered with several ships – either dockside or through sail training. She is a contributing writer for the online magazine, Suite101.com, where her writings include articles about Ernestina. Her novel, The Unicorn Tree, about a teenage girl whose brother is lost at sea aboard a historic clipper, is scheduled for release summer 2012.
Capt. John Doswell
Captain John Doswell was a writer, designer, producer and software developer for many years before turning his attention to NYC's waterfront. He serves on the board of several waterfront organizations and founded Friends of Hudson River Park. In addition, he is a waterfront consultant and event producer.
Bernard Ente (Deceased)
Bernard Ente was a professional photographer living in NYC. His work covering the area's waterways, maritime industry, railroads, bridges, and tourist attractions has appeared in many publications, and on the Internet. He has hosted dozens of informative harbor and walking tours in the NY/NJ area. Bernie was generous with his photography for the Working Harbor Committee and his work graces the WHC website as well as many WHC publications. He was loved by all WHC members and is missed beyond words.
Capt. Margaret Flanagan
Captain Margaret (Maggie) Flanagan works for Classic Harbor Lines on schooners and the classic motor vessel Manhattan. She was formerly the director of marine education at the South Street Seaport Museum and has always been an avid fan of tall ships and boats in general, particularly historic vessels. She is a licensed captain and sailor herself, and is the director of a not-for-profit called Public Trust New York, which advocates for public access and programs on the waters of New York.
Capt. Huntley Gill
Captain Huntley Gill works in architecture and preservation, both architectural and maritime. He serves on boards of several not-for-profit maritime and preservation organizations including North River Historic Ship Society and Save Our Ships New York, and is part owner and skipper of the retired historic fireboat John J. Harvey.
Capt. Sarah Greer
Captain Sarah Greer is the COO & Port Captain for Classic Harbor Line, which operates several classic schooners and motor vessels. She is the producer of the annual Parade of Light, a procession of vessels lighted and decorated for the holidays on the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving.
Susan Greer
Susan Greer also works for Classic Harbor Line, which operates several classic schooners and motor vessels. She is also the producer of the annual Parade of Light and holds a degree in Fine Arts.
Bonnie A. Harken
Bonnie A. Harken, AIA & APA, is President of Nautilus International, a consulting firm focusing on urban waterfront redevelopment and downtown revitalization. She learned to walk on the deck of SS General Meigs when her parents moved from California to China just after her 1st birthday. Since then she’s lived and worked around the world and has spent her career helping cities reconnect with their waterfronts.
Capt. Peter Johansen
Peter Johansen is Chief Operating Officer for Great American Lines which operates the MV Sunbelt Spirit, a car carrier transporting Toyotas from Japan to the US. Prior to joining GALI, Pete was the Director of Operations for New York Waterway. For thirty years, Pete was a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve, rising to the rank of Captain and is a graduate of SUNY Maritime College with a BS in Marine Transportation.
Steven W. Jones
As president/CEO and co-founder of IERC Education Foundation (IERCEF), Mr. Jones is committed to broadening the Foundation’s network to be a resource to students from out-of-school college preparatory programs to Minority-Serving Institutions and Community Colleges raising underserved student capacity in a global, flatter, world.
Capt. Carleen Lyden-Kluss
Carleen Lyden-Kluss is the founder of Morgan Marketing & Communications which represents the marriage of marketing communications and maritime and the Executive Director of New York Maritime (NYMAR). In addition she was co-founder and Executive Director of North American Marine Environmental Association (NAMEPA) and is the President of the Propeller Club, Chapter of the Port of New York/New Jersey. Carleen was raised on an island in Michigan, and grew up as a competitive sailor dodging ore carriers on Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and St. Claire.
Gretchen Mackenzie
A former English teacher and arts administrator, Gretchen Mackenzie moved to New York City in 1981 to work in ocean freight for a grain trading company. Subsequently she worked in development for several NYC art and history organizations, including the South Street Seaport Museum.
John McCluskey
John is a member of the WHC Steering Committee who narrates our annual Tug Race Spectator Boat as well as other tours.
Catherine Penfold-Waxman
Catherine Penfold-Waxman is an advertising and marketing expert. She is a writer and an art director who has worked at global advertising agencies in London and New York. She is disgustingly well-adjusted.
Virginia Perkins
Virginia is a member of the WHC Steering Committee.
Jean Preece
Jean Preece started her career as a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall, and went on to Broadway, fashion shows and corporate shows and events. Her Broadway credits include CoCo, My Fair Lady and 42nd Street. She is the co-founder of NY Windstar Connection, an environmental organization.
Wendy Range
Wendy Range is a theatre technician and lighting designer, as well as volunteer for Floating the Apple. She discovered WHC at a tugboat race and has been a WHC volunteer ever since.
Dr. Alan Rice
Dr. Alan Rice is a Research Associate of the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History, and a big fan of tall ships everywhere.
Capt. Jerry Roberts
Captain Jerry Roberts was the curator for the Intrepid Sea*Air*Space Museum for many years before leaving to become the executive director of the National Lighthouse Museum in Staten Island. He is also the creator of the annual NYC Tugboat Race and Festival and is currently executive director of the Connecticut River Museum.
Meaddows Ryan
Meaddows Ryan is a member of the NYS Marine Education Association.
Susan Schecter
Susan is a member of the WHC Steering Committee.
Peter Stanford
Peter Stanford, historian, was the founder of South Street Seaport Museum and is president emeritus of the National Maritime Historical Society. He continues to write about the history of the sea, and was the founding chair of the Working Harbor Committee.
Renee Stanley
Renee Stanley, proud daughter of a merchant mariner, is a production stage manager and an avid student of New York City. She is on the board of the West 44th St. Better Block Association / Friends of Pier 84, and thanks the WHC for their patience with her many maritime questions.
Margaret Stocker
Margaret Stocker is a trustee of the India House Foundation, and a maritime art historian and past curator of the Collection at India House. More of a sander than a sailor (as the owner of a 1960 wooden powerboat) Margaret is working on a history of the paintings, prints, ship models and Asian artifacts that document America's trade with 'The Indies', assembled at India House in 1914. Margaret also serves on the board of the Maritime Industry Museum, SUNY Maritime College (Ft. Schuyler.)
Christina Sun
Christina Sun is the founder NY Shipping Cooperative which promotes short-sea shipping in the region, and is also an artist as well as a deckhand on a working research vessel.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor grew up in Hoboken during the era of the working docks, great ocean Liners, fleets of railroad owned ferries, tugs, car floats and lighters. He has been an amateur photographer and historian from a early age. Rich is also a narrator on many WHC tours.
Erin Urban
Erin Urban is the founding executive director of the Noble Maritime Collection, a maritime museum and study center located in a former mariners' dormitory of Sailors' Snug Harbor. She is the author of several books including Hulls and Hulks in the Tide of Time: The Life and Work of John A. Noble.
Terry Walton
Terry Walton is a maritime editor and owner of Rosalie Ink Publications. She has written about New York Harbor for 30 years and was the founding editor of Seaport Magazine and a founding trustee of South Street Seaport Museum.
Mitch Waxman
Mitch Waxman grew up in Brooklyn, attended the School of Visual Arts, and spent 20 years writing and drawing comics for a variety of publishers while working in the trenches on Madison Avenue for the advertising industry. After putting down the pencil and picking up a camera, Mitch came to Newtown Creek and hasn't left since. That odd mendicant in a filthy black raincoat you often see wandering along area streets taking a photo of a manhole cover or worm eaten pilaster is probably him.
Dr. Roberta Weisbrod
Roberta Weisbrod is Principal of Sustainable Ports, a consultancy working on maritime transport of people and freight, waterfront development, and improving urban freight transport. She is a member of the Harbor Ops Steering Committee, a strong advocate for the working harbor, and author of numerous articles about her maritime passion.
Lee Wellington
Lee Wellington worked on New York City's Industrial Policy at the Mayor's Office of Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses. She later served as a Program Manager for the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance where she assisted with the organization's intergovernmental strategy and organized programs for City of Water Day. She is now working on plans for the Hudson River Foodway, an initiative to bring food to NYC from upstate provides by water.
Staff
Capt. John Doswell - Executive Director
Captain John Doswell was a writer, designer, producer and software developer for many years before turning his attention to NYC's waterfront. He serves on the board of several waterfront organizations and founded Friends of Hudson River Park. In addition, he is a waterfront consultant and event producer.
Meg Black - Development and Program Director
Meg Black was an aide to Senator Franz Leichter before becoming the first executive director of the Friends of Hudson River Park. She has been the program & development director for the Working Harbor Committee since 2005.
Mai Armstrong - Communications & Development Associate
Mai is a NYC advertising creative who designs branding and marketing services for mid-to-large corporations. Her work with NY/NJ ALS Association and the MDA helped to raise over $2 million for ALS research. She also volunteers with the Newtown Creek Alliance, working to reveal, revitalize and renew the polluted waterway. Mai grew up in Singapore and migrated to NY after some years in the UK and San Francisco.
Jhoneen Preece-Doswell - Administrative Assistant
Jhoneen Preece-Doswell, in addition to being our office manager and web-site administrator, works for United Airlines, and thus travels frequently and free all over the world, along with her parents John and Jean. In 1997 she took a cruise as part of her junior year called "Semester at Sea" and visited over 10 countries. She also has a dance company called "Us."
Consultants
Thomas J. Mahoney, CPA
Thomas J Mahoney, CPA. Is a tax specialist with over 30 years experience in NYC area. He works with many non-profit organizations, with a specialty in Maritime History, Ships, and NYC landmark properties including historic vessels.
Myra Resnick - Web Designer
Myra Resnick is a communications specialist - writing, graphic design, photography and Web development. She worked for a health institute for many years and is now a consultant in those fiel. She has exhibited photographs with the NYC Sierra Club.
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A meeting of our Steering Committee. The Committee is open to new WHC members. Go to News to see when the next meeting is scheduled, or email john@workingharbor.org
We meet tyically on the 4th Thursday of the month at 18:00 at:
Working Harbor Committee:
455 West 43rd Street - Ground Floor (#1C)
NYC NY 10036
The current Steering Committee consists of:
14 Men
31 Women
Total 45
3 Advertising/web Designers
1 Airline Employee
2 or more Artists
2 Block Association People
3 Environmental Consultants
3 Excursion Boat Operators
1 Former Rockette
1 Landscape Designer
1 Large Ship Operator
1 Lawyer
5 Maritime Consultants
4 Maritime Educators
2 Maritime Museum Executives
3 Maritime Writers
4 Not-for-profit Executives
1 Park Improvement District Executive
4 or more Photographers
2 Preservationists
2 Real Estate People
3 Theatre Professionals
3 Urban Planners
9 Captains
(5 male, 4 female)
4 or more Tall Ship Sailors
6 or more Blue Water Sailors
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Remembering
Olga Bloom, Founder of Bargemusic, Dies at 92
Olga Bloom reacts to being presented with the Working Harbor
Committee’s Distinguished Service Award in 2005 by Peter Stanford.
(Photo (c) 2005 Bernard Ente)
In 1977, Olga Bloom bought an old coffee barge, paneled it in cherry wood from Staten Island ferry boats, brought it to a falling-apart fireboat pier at the foot of Fulton Street in Brooklyn, and began offering chamber music concerts performed by Juilliard students. Bargemusic has not only withstood time and tides ever since, but flourished as a fabulous marriage of chamber music with harbor life.
Only Olga Bloom could have done this. It took her discipline as a violinist who practiced Bach every morning and Zen throughout the day, her passion for beauty, her marvel at natural wonders, her poetic manner, and her stubborn strength.
Olga is among the one-of-a-kind people who came to New York Harbor and changed it forever, making connections no others could see, having a vision and an uncanny ability to bring it to living, growing reality. She gave Fulton Ferry Landing its history-recalling name, confounded government agencies that had no regulations for floating concert halls, attracted thousands of people to the waterfront with the unlikely lure of chamber music, and redirected the course of many lives.
Olga Bloom died Thanksgiving Day, Nov 24, at the age of 92. Bargemusic will continue under its president and artistic director Mark Peskanov, who came to the Barge as a performing violinist and became like a son to Olga, the godsend who would carry on after her. Olga will be missed, but also rejoiced.
(by Cindy Goulder)
In Memoriam -
Bernard Ente
(Photo Cindy Goulder 2007)*
Bernard Ente, our friend and a friend to many others on the NY Waterfront, died Friday, 8 April 2011. Bernie brought his unique style and smile to everything he did - from his extraordinary photographs chronicling the growth of the Working Harbor
Committee over the past 7 years, to his innovative and highly successful
specialty tours: Newtown Creek, Rail to Water,
Bridges, and Circumnavigation of Staten Island. And let us not
forget his walking tours to explore those hard to reach places on
our working waterfronts.
Raining or snowing? No excuse. Wear a poncho, put on your gloves! It’s a Bernie tour!
We were all so proud to join him when the Post Office dedicated a special commemorative stamp of the historic fireboat, John J. Harvey, using the photo he took of the vessel. And that was his photo of the Bayonne Bridge featured on a poster for NYSA’s Delivering Prosperity campaign, as well as other maritime publications.
Bernie was a true friend to all in the maritime industry.
We will all
miss him, our dear friend. Oh, how he made us laugh with his wry sense of humor! We’ll miss that smile but know that our lives were made richer for having someone as special as Bernie in it.
*WHC Steering Committee member Cindy Goulder took the above photo in 2007 after an event. She sent Bernie a copy and he replied:
"I HATE being photographed, but your shot is not too bad.
You can photograph my Bar Mitzvah, too.
Bernie"
Note: Probably 90% or more of the photos on this website were
taken by and donated by Bernard Ente.
In memory of Capt. John Krevey
1948 -2011
Honored by the Working Harbor Committee
21 September 2010
(Photo Bernard Ente)
Over thirty years ago, John Krevey had a vision of bringing historic, educational, and excursion vessels to our waterways and providing free public access to our waterfronts. John took his vision and made it a reality. We are so grateful to John for all he accomplished and the impact he had on our lives. He was truly an inspiration and his legacy will live on
for generations to come.
See a video of John Krevey accepting his
Working Harbor Committee 2010 award here
Walter Cronkite
Honorary Chair Emeritus
4 November, 1916 – 17 July, 2009
A Tribute
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