{"id":1536,"date":"2016-11-30T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstater.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:24:47","slug":"lost-in-the-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/lost-in-the-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, after graduating from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahlawrence.edu\/writing-mfa\/\"> Sarah Lawrence\u2019s MFA program<\/a>, three New York City writers and friends\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickipombierberger.com\/\"> Nicki Pombier Berger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nicoleharoutunian.com\/\"> Nicole Haroutunian<\/a>, and Helen Georgas\u2014were casting about for ideas on what to do next, when Berger found an intriguing item in the May issue of New York Magazine.<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/56609\/\"> An article by Chris Bonanos<\/a> listed objects that had been discovered underwater in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the objects were expected (shipwrecks, dead bodies), but some were really evocative and specific: a dinette table sitting upright as if waiting to be set, a grand piano, a fleet of Good Humor ice cream trucks,\u201d recalls Georgas. Berger suggested that they imagine and write the stories behind some of the objects and hold a reading at the end of the summer. \u201cBut as we began to approach more friends\u2014writers, artists, musicians\u2014the interest in the idea began to build,\u201d Georgas says. The website<a href=\"http:\/\/underwaternewyork.com\/\"> Underwater New York<\/a> was launched that summer with a party aboard the<a href=\"http:\/\/fryingpan.com\/site\/\"> Frying Pan<\/a>, a formerly sunken lightship now stationed at Chelsea Piers.<\/p>\n<p>Today the website features objects and phenomena \u201cfrom waterways in all of New York City\u2019s boroughs, with an occasional upstate or Long Island entry,\u201d says Haroutunian, including many Hudson River items like \u201ctwo shipwrecks on top of each other, blue crabs, raw sewage, the changing currents.\u201d The scope of projects inspired by and published on the website is both wide and deep: Commuting artist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxinehenryson.com\/\"> Maxine Henryson\u2019s<\/a> photographic series,<a href=\"http:\/\/underwaternewyork.com\/archive\/2015\/9\/16\/hudson-everyday-by-maxine-henryson\"> Hudson Everyday<\/a>, views the changing riverscape through train windows; poet<a href=\"https:\/\/devingkelly.wordpress.com\/\"> Devin Kelly<\/a> and writer David Hollander (himself an upstater) both tackled the locomotive and coal car that plummeted from the raised Peekskill drawbridge in 1865; photographer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriankinlochphotography.net\/\"> Adrian Kinloch<\/a> and poet<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattheaharvey.info\/\"> Matthea Harvey<\/a> each created works inspired by a small plastic toy dubbed \u201cKangamouse\u201d found at Dead Horse Bay. A birdcage found in the Gowanus Canal inspired artist<a href=\"http:\/\/alexisneider.com\/home.html\"> Alexis Neider<\/a> to build a delicate golden birdcage that was subsequently floated in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marielorenz.com\/\"> Marie Lorenz<\/a>\u2019s Flow Pool, a body of water constructed inside a Manhattan art space.<\/p>\n<p>As a digital literary and art journal, Underwater New York is attracting national media attention to both its growing list of waterway-inspired writings and artworks and the waterways themselves. Most recently, the website\u2019s coeditors contributed a foreword to artist Elizabeth Albert\u2019s book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silentbeaches.com\/\"> Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City\u2019s Forgotten Waterfront<\/a>, in which they write of the myriad waterways comprising \u201canother landscape entirely, every bit as gritty and urgent, as lonely and cluttered, as deadly, singular, and Siren as the city itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, after graduating from Sarah Lawrence\u2019s MFA program, three New York City writers and friends\u2014 Nicki Pombier Berger, Nicole Haroutunian, and Helen Georgas\u2014were casting about for ideas on what to do next, when Berger found an intriguing item in the May issue of New York Magazine. 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