The Collectors Room
With Chester D. Hooper, Esq. Capt. James J. McNamara,
Clay Maitland and The Reverend Jean R. Smith
Thursday April 5th, 2007
12:30PM
FREE With lunch reception.


Place: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, inside the ornate Collector's Room (normally closed to the public) recently featured in Spike Lee's The Inside Man. Historically, the Collector's Room, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Studios, was where decisions on international tariffs for goods that entered the Port of New York were made. Adorned in Beaux Arts style replete with murals of major international ports of call and hand-carved woodwork, the Collector's Room is the interior crown jewel of Cass Gilbert's Custom House, which celebrates its 100th Anniversary this year.

Talk: Fitting this august legacy, Access Restricted has assembled a panel of renowned maritime experts to speak on issues of trade, smuggling, and human rights violations spanning the history of New York and the seven seas. On the agenda will be a new international trade treaty in the works at the United Nations, contemporary piracy issues, stowaway, visa, and emigrant rights both onboard and off ship, as well as, the ignominious history of New York as a port of profit on the slave trade. We will be joined by; Chester D. Hooper ESQ, partner at Holland and Knight, LLP, Capt. James J. McNamara, President of the National Cargo Bureau, Inc., Clay Maitland, Managing Partner, International Registries, Inc., and the Rev. Jean R. Smith, DD, president of the Seamen's Church Institute.

 

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