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# Struggling Seaport Museum Gets $2M Grant
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/struggling-seaport-museum-gets-2m-grant/
- Published: 2011-09-08T01:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:48:39.000Z
- Description: Some good news for Manhattan's Seaport Museum, which has been in financial trouble for quite some time, as they received a $2 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, ABC No Rio, City Hall park, South Street Seaport Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Some good news for Manhattan’s Seaport Museum, which has been in [financial trouble](http://hyperallergic.com/?s=seaport+museum) for quite some time, as they received a $2 million grant from the [Lower Manhattan Development Corp](http://renewnyc.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com). The sum is the largest given to any one downtown Manhattan nonprofit and collectively institutions in the area received $17 million in post-9/11 recovery grants. Other notable visual arts programming that received grants went to the [River to River Festival](http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) ($700,000), the public art exhibits at City Hall Park ($250,000) and smaller amounts to ABC No Rio’s new arts center on Rivington Street and the Children’s Museum of the Arts’ new teen arts center in SoHo. \[via [DNAinfo](http://www.dnainfo.com/20110907/downtown/downtown-nonprofits-get-17m-grants?ref=hyperallergic.com)\]