MASNY Jubilee XI Cruise

Featuring Gent Treadly and Special Guests

Boarding at 6:15 and Departure at 7:00pm

Thursday, September 23, 2021

$100 per person includes the music cruise with an open bar and delicious dinner. All contributions are fully tax deductible with all proceeds going directly to the charity.

In keeping with the new way of doing things the Gent Treadly performance will also be livestreamed for those GT fans who are not in NYC. Here's the link https://www.cliveshows.com/event/masny-gt

Purchase Tickets Here

Gent Treadly will be providing the aural extravaganza of the evening aboard The Cosmo. There will be a sumptuous feast and many drinks. Stay tuned and check back for more info on the special guests, food and more.

The Boat leaves from 23rd St. & FDR. Boarding is at 6:15pm and it sets sail at 7pm and we should be back ashore by 10:30.

It is a boat docked at Skyport Marina, at East 23rd Street and the East River. Departing from 23rd Street and FDR Drive, the boat heads south along the East River and passes underneath the 3 major bridges (Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn), then cruises through New York harbor to the Statue of Liberty, which it circles for approximately 30 minutes. It then turns around and makes the same trip again in reverse. The experience of watching the bridges pass overhead while a great band is rocking 20 feet away is not to be missed.

Officers

1. President and Founder: Gregory Koerner

2. Chair and Co Founder: Paul J. Schupf

3. Vice President: Derrick Hussey

MASNY Providing Piano Instruction at 2 Locations In Brooklyn and One In The Bronx

MASNY has launched 2 more successful private piano instruction programs this year in Brooklyn as a result of the generosity of MASNY supporters. Borahm Lee is providing piano instruction at Von King in BedStuy, Patrick McLellan in South Williamsburg and Greg Sulzer continues his work at Mary Mitchell Center in the Bronx.

The Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Program

The Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center is located in the Crotona section of the Bronx which is part of the poorest urban congressional district in the country. All the families in our program receive public assistance. The Bronx has the highest number of underperforming students in the school system and very few schools provide arts during the school day. Of the children born this year in our community, half of them will have diabetes in their lifetime and over 60% of adults in the Bronx are overweight or obese. It is a challenge to grow up in Crotona. Our program provides a healthy, hot meal, tutoring, fitness and arts activities to 60 children. We believe that our program can make a critical difference in the lives of the families that we serve. We are delighted to be able to add piano classes to the options that children have.

The piano classes started on September 28, 2010. Greg Sulzer, the musician, comes to the Center every Tuesday and gives lessons to seven children for 30 minutes each from 4:00pm to 7:30pm. Greg is an experienced teacher who is able to engage the children on a very basic level and help them feel like they can become accomplished musicians. His attention and careful instruction has really paid off. Already children are playing songs, identifying notes, learning to read music and practicing correct form for playing the piano. In just a month, the children have shown improvement and they are the envy of their peers. When we started children were wary of the opportunity, now children stop me in the hall to ask if they can take the lessons.

We asked some of the piano students what they think of the lessons and this is what they said:

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