Waterfront Museum
Museum · Red Hook, New York
A maritime and railroad history museum housed aboard a wooden railroad barge, open on most Thursdays from 4 to 8pm and Saturdays from 1 to 5pm for free tours.
History
The vessel is the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79, built in 1914 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places at Red Hook on June 2, 2015, after an earlier 1989 listing at a berth in New Jersey.
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290 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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