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Fleet Week NYC 2014 Calendar of Events

Celebrate Fleet Week NYC 2014 with these tours, parades, public programs, and other special events around New York City. Don’t forget to check out our special Fleet Week Harbor Tours, …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Waterfront
World War II

Adams, Jefferson, and the Unlikely Founding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Two hundred and thirteen years ago today, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was founded, the last of the six original shipyards established by the US Navy. Today we celebrate the yard’s …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Waterfront

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibit Reveals Brooklyn Navy Yard Stories of WWII

If you have not yet been to the Brooklyn Museum to see their stunning exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY, make no delay – the show closes on Sunday, February 2, when its three-city …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography
Waterfront
World War II

Where Your Presents Came From: The Port of New York & New Jersey

By now all of us who celebrate Christmas have given and received our gifts. While we all put a great deal of thought (hopefully) into finding the perfect present for …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Waterfront

Support Turnstile Turtles in Gowanus Canal Race June 15

Turnstile Tours is truly multimodal – with tours by foot, bus, and bicycle, we’re now hopping into canoes! On Saturday, June 15, our team will take to the murky, sheen-cloaked …

Waterfront

The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s “Lincoln” Photo

One of our favorite photographs of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is affectionately referred to as the “Lincoln photo.” We will be examining this photo more closely, and the scene depicted …

Architecture
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography
Waterfront

Merchant Mariners, Unsung Heroes of World War II

While developing our new tour about the World War II history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we encountered a fascinating – and largely untold – history of the oft-forgotten service …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Waterfront
World War II

Tour group standing in front of the gates of the Commandant's House with WWII veteran Paul Mager standing on the right.

Food Trucks Helping Communities Recover from Sandy

As we all know by now, the actual wind, rain, and storm surges from Hurricane Sandy this weekend were only the beginning. Thousands of people have lost their homes, and …

Street Vending
Waterfront

Pouring Concrete: The Brooklyn Navy Yard Prepares for War

Times of war have always brought the biggest transformations to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and none were bigger than those that took place during World War II. But long before …

Architecture
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Waterfront
World War II

The Life and Death of Ships: Peter Hutton’s “At Sea”

Last month UnionDocs, a collective of documentary filmmakers based in Williamsburg, opened their season, and their newly renovated screening space, with a showing of two films by Peter Hutton about …

Waterfront

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Workers walk alongside a large stone dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with two white tugboats below and a red and white crane on the right.

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