New York City is made up of over 40 islands. By looking to Manhattan’s seaport and its deep history of commerce and cultural exchange, professor and D.J. Tao Leigh Goffe explores how climate change has long impacted New York’s deep shorelines. Toni Morrison has written that “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” What do New York’s rivers remember? Sharing insights from her climate research lab, Dr. Goffe will draw on Black, Asian, Indigenous, and European histories to answer this question. From Lenapehoking to Chinatown to Dutch New Amsterdam to the site of the Auction Block of chattel slavery, what has the harbor and its ecologies witnessed?