CIRCUSundays
For two showings every Sunday during the month of June, The Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge brings the circus to Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood featuring professional performers from around the globe. Each Sunday, an entirely new show packs in acts ranging from David Sharps, a devotee of classical Chinese equilibristics, flinging a 30 lb. ceramic vase into the air catching on his head to The Shinbone Alley Stilt Band, a brass combo who boogies to Dixieland, Swing, Jazz & Rock all on giant stilts.
The Waterfront Museum, the last fully restored covered wooden barge of its kind and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is both a floating classroom and showboat barge. A former captain of the abandoned vessel fortuitously reclaimed it from the mudflats off Edgewater New Jersey in 1985. Now docked at Red Hook Garden Pier 44 near Civil War-era warehouses along original cobblestone streets, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge #79 is right on New York harbor and seemingly a stones throw from the Statue of Liberty. Just five minutes from the BQE subway lines and built in 1914, it once hauled coffee, spices and other cargo between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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