November 15, 2007

'Graving Dock' launch party set for Brooklyn Navy Yard

There was a time in the past when Brooklyn's waterfront was home to more than its share of dead guys.

In a way that makes the GMD Shipyard in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard the perfect place to celebrate the publication of Gabriel Cohen's new thriller, "The Graving Dock."

$10 tickets go on sale Friday for the November 27 event, which will get you rare access to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and one of its graving docks, beer and food with the shipyard workers, as well as "literary culture and industrial grit."

In addition to the book reading, there will be a sound and light show about the harbor.

The book party will also be the first event at the shipyards for PortSide NewYork, which is moving its retired oil tanker Mary A. Whalen to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (It has been docked at the Red Hook container port, where it hosted a sold-out short run of Puccini's romantic opera "Il Tabarro," staged on the deck of the tanker.)

"The Graving Dock" is the follow-up to Cohen’s Edgar Award-nominated "Red Hook."

Update/correction: This entry has been updated to make clear that the Mary Whalen hasn't yet moved from Red Hook, (but will soon.) NewYorkology talked to PortSide's Carolina Salguero who said the book reading and show will take place in the tailshaft and valve shack, (which is more like an airplane hangar,) and guests will also be able to walk to the edge of the graving dock, which is about 1,000-feet long.

Update II: Salguero sent over a picture of the Tailshaft+Valve Shop (see it after the jump) and wants to let people know that for the event, it will be "heated with industrial blowers."

Earlier: Brooklyn Navy Yard Historical Center to open in 2010
Down in Brooklyn's Dry Dock No. 1 with Mary Whalen
On board the Mary A. Whalen for Open House NY

November 15, 2007 06:43 PM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, History, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology

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