South Street Seaport Museum 50th Anniversary

    South Street Seaport Museum

    50th Anniversary Celebration

    Dockside Benefit, Cocktails and Dinner

    Tuesday, September 19, 2017

    The South Street Seaport Museum announces the 50th Anniversary Celebration, a dockside celebration and benefit at Pier 16 featuring cocktails and dinner, on Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Tickets are $350 and $500 (VIP Experience) and are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/978255.

    6:00 pm – VIP Cocktail Reception in the Captain’s saloon and on the quarterdeck of Wavertree.

    6:30 pm – General Admission Cocktail Reception aboard the 1885 sailing ship Wavertree.

    7:30 pm – Dockside Dinner featuring catering by Cipriani.

    “Join us for a celebration of fifty years of the South Street Seaport Museum! For half a century, the Museum has highlighted and interpreted New York’s port and its seaborne connections to the world. On September 19, we mark the first five decades of the Seaport Museum and celebrate the people who have made this work possible. Through unparalleled leadership and the tireless efforts of trustees, staff,  volunteers, and friend the Seaport Museum has achieved this major milestone and we now turn our attention to the next fifty years. Join friends of the Seaport Museum for cocktails aboard the ship Wavertree, followed by a dockside dinner catered by Cipriani to toast fifty years of good work and many more to come!”

    HONORING THE BOARD CHAIRS WHO BROUGHT US THROUGH OUR FIRST 50 YEARS

    Jakob Isbrandtsen; James R. Shepley; John B. Ricker, Jr.; Robert W. McCullough; Peter A. Aron;

    Lawrence S. Huntington; Frank J. Sciame, Jr.; Robert G.M. Keating

    AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF

    The Hon. Gale A. Brewer, Manhattan Borough President and

    New York City Council Member Margaret Chin

    FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP IN LOWER MANHATTAN

    AND THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT HISTORIC DISTRICT