BYWAYS: Three Artists on Brooklyn’s Black Waterfront critically engages the histories and futures of the Black diaspora along Brooklyn’s waterfront. The works of poet Bernard Ferguson, fiction writer Mateo Askaripour, and visual artist Whit Harris reveal Brooklyn’s overlapping histories of leisure, labor, forced movement, and a Black middle-class. 

Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront explores the extraordinary past and present embedded in New York City's more than 600 miles of coastline through a selection of rare photographs, history, new fiction, poetry, and contemporary art.