RED HOOK — Following the massive five-alarm fire ripped through the Beard and Robinson Warehouse Stores at 481 Van Brunt St. on Sept. 17, which was the home of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition for 35 years, the organization is looking for a new space.

BWAC is an artist-run, non-profit that provides opportunities for artists to show their work, develop professionally and engage the public in the experience of art. Each season, they have hosted a new exhibit.

Firefighters battled a massive Red Hook warehouse blaze on Sept. 17, 2025.

Photo by Marc A. Hermann

President Alicia Degener and its members had hoped that the art group would be able to return to the gallery space as they said the two-floor gallery was in the section of the building that sustained the least amount of damag

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