Loss for Seaport Museum

The South Street Seaport Museum has lost its operator. The Museum of the City of New York is pulling out of operating the financially-strapped Seaport museum, which continues to struggle in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The storm inundated the Seaport's electrical and computer systems.

City Museum President Susan Henshaw Jones tells The New York Times a huge amount of post-Sandy works in terms of dollars remains at the Seaport, and that it could take years.

In 2011, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation gave the City Museum a $2 million grant and 18 months to put the Seaport museum on solid footing. That period was extended by nine months. The city Department of Cultural Affairs says it hopes to find another entity to take over the Seaport.