Crew
In alpha order:
Jenny Kane, Oral histories
David Levine, Information Architect & Content Management
Peter Rothenberg, Historian & Curator, Education & Program Planning
Carolina Salguero, Founder & Executive Director, 917-414-0565
Dave Sheahan, longtime IT volunteer
Legal
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. “Cleary employs a team of four full-time pro bono attorneys dedicated to developing, strengthening and managing its award-winning pro bono practice, including a Director of Pro Bono who specializes in working with nonprofits and small businesses, a Pro Bono Attorney who specializes in litigation, and a Pro Bono Immigration Attorney who manages the firm’s pro bono immigration docket.” More.
Holland & Knight, represents PortSide for maritime (admiralty law) matters. More.
SNR Denton US LLP, one of the 25 largest legal services providers in the world, with lawyers and professionals in 33 countries, serves as general counsel to PortSide on non-maritime matters. Gary Goodman is our primary contact.
Ship Restoration - Training partner
District Council 9 provides major ship preservation work. Their apprentice programs use our ship MARY A. WHALEN for training. Their Local 806 (Bridge Painters) trains on the ship, or we take ship parts to their training center for sandblasting and painting. Their Metal Polishers restore metal. Their Glaziers replace porthole glass.
Crew Bios
Jenny Kane | Oral Histories
Jenny records and editing oral histories for our virtual museum. Jenny Kane received a BA in history Harvard and an MA in Media Studies from the New School. She completed an Oral History Summer Intensive workshop in Hudson, NY. She works as a union electrician in the film industry. She is PortSide’s longest running volunteer, beginning with first public tour of the MARY A. WHALEN for OHNY in October 2006. She loves hearing people’s stories and looks forward to collecting more for Red Hook WaterStories.
David Levine | Information Architect & Content Management
David joined PortSide to direct the Red Hook WaterStories content management and provide technical guidance. Our virtual museum has been praised as the greatest hack of Omeka archiving software, and the credit goes to David. A traveler, sailor, cyclist, pianist, boulevardier, David comes with a twenty-five year career in programming, software architecture, Information architecture, content modelling and content management. He has now lived more years in Brooklyn than anywhere else. He is a member of the Knickerbocker Sailing Association.
Peter Rothenberg | Historian/Curator, Education & Event Planning
Peter is a history curator and native of Brooklyn. He was the curator of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts in Madison, NJ, and prior to that of the New York City Fire Museum. He is co-author the book: FDNY: An Illustrated History of the Fire Department of the City of New York. His extensive experience working events and festivals informs his contribution to creating and running PortSide events and educational programs. He has been site crew at music festival for years, over 30 years at Clearwater, over 20 at Falcon Ridge, and 8 years at Zlatne Uste. See and hear the Tanker Gamelan he invented by hanging marine hardware for a 2nd grade field trip. He is also a consultant at educational events at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. From program design to rigging, fabrication and preservation, he does it all — inventively. Peter holds a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from Oberlin College and a Master's Degree in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware.
Carolina Salguero | Founder & Executive Director, PortSide NewYork
Carolina began life in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and spent her teen years living on the New England coast that was her first maritime inspiration. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with two majors (Art and American Studies). The social policy studies of the latter informed her journalism and ultimately PortSide. She worked around the world as an award-winning freelance documentary photographer and writer from the opening of the Berlin Wall through 9/11 where she arrived at ground zero on her own boat. Her intrepid photojournalism had her survive a hit man and Shining Path bomb in Peru, and a car-jacking at machine gun point in South Africa. Since 1998, her research, documentation and advocacy have focused on New York City's waterfront. In 2002, she completed a 2 year project on NYC tugboats for National Geographic which introduced her to the working waterfront. In 2003, she launched the first interactive community board website in NYC for Brooklyn Community Board 6 about the "Piers 6-12 Study" which attempted to shut down the Red Hook Containerport. She founded PortSide in 2005; and in 2007, supervised the haul-out of its flagship, the tanker MARY A. WHALEN. Her photos and essay in Narratively capture her maritime motivations. Carolina has received awards for her PortSide work from the Obama White House, City Lore, the Friends of George McAnaney, the National Maritime Historical Society, and others.
Chiclet | Ship Cat
We have a great ship cat named Chiclet who keeps us all motivated and keeps the ship rodent free. Read more about her here.
PortSide interns – Spring semester 2026
Working on Brookly Marine Terminal (BMT) plans – NYU Gallatin interns, Addy, Fatima, Kentaro
Addy is a student of environmental science and data science at NYU with a focus in remote sensing technologies and Lo-TEK design. Her academic interests serve to bridge the perceived divide between environmental issues and emerging technologies focusing on advancing sustainable approaches in industry and architecture. Currently, she is doing research on informal settlement formations in Sub-Saharan Africa with the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, interning at PortSide, and playing world music on the radio at WNYU. Though new to the maritime world, Addy has worked in wetland restoration with the Friends of Ballona for the last four years, engaging with the intersection of land & sea to understand the delicate nature of the communities and larger ecosystem that rely on the water as a source of subsistence.
Fatima Kaleem is a sophomore at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrates in Human Services and Social Justice. Her academic and professional interests center on structural change, inequality, and injustice, particularly within healthcare systems and the social, political, and economic forces that shape health outcomes. More broadly, she is interested in environmental justice, community advocacy, and the ways public policy and land use decisions impact the health and well-being of communities.
Kentaro Lee is a Junior Majoring in Economics and Politics at New York University. He has extensive experience in public policy and philanthropy. He served as the founder of a medical scholarship foundation, a principal researcher on a food inequality study in Hartford, a previous executive & EMT for his local ambulance Corp, and previous local head of fundraising for the American Red Cross. Harnessing his love for the water, through a lifetime of boating and fishing, Kentaro decided at PortSide NY to increase a greater understanding of maritime policy.
Working on Red Hook WaterStories
Eduardo Argandona lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I am a student at SUNY Maritime working to earn my bachelor's degree on Marine Environment Science. I like helping people, so I volunteer at Food First, handing out boxed and canned goods to people in the community. I like walking nature trails, so I volunteer at various New York City parks, collecting trash and raking leaves.
Working on creating NYC maritime topics. May get involved with BMT too
Matthew Kryger is a senior in the class of 2026 at Blauvelt High School, 20 miles upriver from NYC! He’s a four-year varsity lacrosse player. He is committed to SUNY Maritime for Marine Transportation. When not on the field or coaching youth lacrosse, he volunteers with local organizations and recently finished the North Rockland Youth Police Academy. He also loves doing sports videography and editing on the side to stay involved with the game in a creative way. He’s interested in interning at PortSide because I want to learn more about New York City’s maritime industry and how the waterfront is used. Since I am planning to attend SUNY Maritime, I think this internship is a good way to better understand maritime transportation and how organizations like PortSide help educate people and protect working waterfronts.