Just as the South Street Seaport itself has crawled back to life after having been devastated by Superstorm Sandy, some of the artisans who are selling their wares in the Seaport this weekend and next at the Out to See festival, are exemplars of courage, grit and persistence.

Take Emily Webster and Mustafa Bagdatli, for instance, who have a business called "Tangeez," a shortened form of "Tangible Lights," which sort of describes what they're selling. These are lights that can be hooked up in varying configurations and that change color depending on how they're assembled. They're fascinating, they're fun, and although this was not the original intention, they may even be useful if the power goes out.

Webster, an architect by profession, and Bagdatli, a website designer, spent four years developing Tangeez. "We made 25 prototypes," said Bagdatli. "There were production issues." But they kept going because when they took their prototypes to local fairs, they found that people liked them.

Now things are really looking up for their enterprise. Their lights are featured on the home page of New York's Next Top Makers, a business development program for New York City entrepreneurs. A Kickstarter campaign in September 2013 netted them $51,000. They figured out how to make their lights rechargeable, and they found a manufacturer in South Dakota who is churning them out.

Webster and Bagdatli are selling their lights in the Melville Gallery at 213 Water St. during Out to See.

Lucia Liu and her associate, Levine Ching, of Luluosophy.

At a neighboring table, Lucia Liu is selling her artisanal chocolates. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in marketing, and that's what she was doing for American Express when, in March 2014, she entered a chocolate contest conducted by Smorgasburg, the Brooklyn food and flea market. The contest was decided by popular vote. She won. The prize was a stall at Smorgasburg on an ongoing basis.

On March 27, 2014, she quit her job at AmEx to become a full-time candy maker. "It's been crazy!" she said of this turn in her life.

She learned her new profession by taking two classes at the Culinary Institute and by watching candy-making videos on YouTube. "Jacques Torres was my teacher," she jokes.

She designed the packaging and branding for her confections, which she makes in a restaurant kitchen before it opens. That means that she's at the stove between 6:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Liu calls her business "Luluosophy."

"It's based on my philosophy," she said. "Life is about good food, good friends and chasing your dreams."

Recently, someone from the Park Hyatt on West 57th Street called her up and said they would like to feature her chocolates in their spa. Of course, she said yes.

Wares from By Brooklyn. (Photo: Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

Next to Liu in the Melville Gallery are wares from a shop called By Brooklyn. Everything in the store at 261 Smith St. is Brooklyn made. There are hand towels from Brooklyn decorated with charming drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge, condiments, soaps, stationary, books and more.

The founder of By Brooklyn, Gaia DiLoreto, had been working in corporate finance for 12 years when she decided she'd had enough of that. She opened her store in Carroll Gardens in April 2011. Since then, she has sold the products of hundreds of local crafts people.

Also in the Melville Gallery for Out to See are another spunky duo - Elena Liao and Frederico Ribeiro. Liao graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in economics and communications. Ribeiro is a chef. They launched their business, "Te Company," in December 2012, selling oolong - a semi-oxidized form of tea, midway between green tea and black tea, in beautiful packages that make terrific gifts.

Liao, who was born in Taiwan, grew up drinking tea. T� Company's teas also come from Taiwan. Until it closed in June 2014, Liao and Ribeiro sold their tea at the New Amsterdam Market. They started out with five kinds of tea. Now they sell 16 varieties. Their tea is available at Martha Stewart American Made and on their own T� Company website.

These are just a few of the interesting vendors at Out to See. In addition visitors will find music, art and food. Out to See continues in the South Street Seaport on Sunday, Nov. 16 and Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 22 and 23. For more information, click here.

Either Mr. Curry is ill-informed by his own company based on his off-the-cuff response about Seaport development or Mr. Curry did not want to advertise how profitable HHC's investment has proven to be in its sweetheart deal forged with EDC (New York City's Economic Development Corporation) -  so much so that HHC is therefore going to be even more aggressive in trying to appropriate additional public land for private use. 

It is apparent that Mr. Curry serves his company well. But the disservice to those of us who live, work and pay taxes in the neighborhood and who have the most to lose if the Seaport development of public land is allowed to further line the coffers of a private company merits much closer scrutiny. 

That the SEC filing and the town meeting happened on the same day are merely coincidence. But Mr. Curry's recent appearance and comments are not and therefore lead me to believe the latter of the two conclusions  - that Mr. Curry et al have repeatedly, consistently and purposely demonstrated that neither he nor his firm are dealing with us, the taxpayers and residents of the community, in good faith.  Shame on y'all!

South Street Seaport Museum

Ongoing: The National Museum of the American Indian is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free admission. It offers free films, docent-led tours of its exhibitions and tours of its premises, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, designed by Cass Gilbert. The building, which was completed in 1907, is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One Bowling Green. Phone: (212) 514-3700. For the museum's calendar, click here.

Ongoing: "Give Me Liberty," a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Sylvanus Shaw, is at the Fraunces Tavern Museum. In this site-specific exhibition, Shaw utilizes images from the Museum's permanent collection, invoking imagery of early American statehood in media ranging from oil on panel to collaged holograms, security envelopes, and other mediums.

Through March 16, 2015. Place: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St. Museum hours: Mon.-Sat., noon to 5 p.m. Admission: $7; $4 (seniors, students, children 6-8); free (children under 5 and active duty military). For more information, click here.