Jon Kalish
Radio reporter and podcast producer Jon Kalish is based in Manhattan and has been a freelance contributor to WNYC since 1980. For links to radio docs, podcasts and stories by Jon Kalish, visit his Tumblr page here.
Photo Essay | A Floating Flophouse in the Rockaways
Saturday, July 09, 2011 - 12:00 AM
For $50, guests can spend a night aboard a makeshift flotilla in the Rockaways known as the Boggsville Boatel — a group of five abandoned boats tied together on a dock in an inlet off Jamaica Bay. But the maritime accommodations aren't for everyone.
The boatel is not licensed as a hotel. Its founder bills the floating flophouse as an art project, not a business, and the $50 paid per night is a donation for an art event.
Comments [5]
You can reserve a night for the Boatel through the FLux Factory website or brown paper tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/184616
If JC from NYC was REALLY from NYC, he would have said:
'squatta on wata'
anyway, if the boat owners want to come back to the bay, claim their abandoned boats, and pay to get them out in order to clean up the area, I suppose they can. I would guess they were just hoping they'd sink and be off the hook...I am sure the area is better off with this type of squatter, rather than a wreck half under water or a floating crack-house.
Squatter on water
Can anyone provide us with a phone number for the Boatel or for Constance Hockaday? We'd like to visit the Boatel.
Oh how wonderful. Such and a wonderful way to be creative and recycle!
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