In an effort to retain our talented staff and stay connected with our community, we are now offering online experiences that highlight our tours, research, and partners. We are talking with makers, street vendors, and museum staff, showing artifacts and materials from our archives, and sharing stories and research about the people and places that we love in New York City and beyond. Some sessions are free, while others are just $5 per household, which will help us support our staff so we can be ready to get back to giving tours once this difficult time has passed.
You can also sign up for a Turnstile Membership – become an Apprentice, a Steward, or a Quartermaster, and get access to live programs, our vast archive of past shows, and other members-only benefits – or organize a virtual experience for a private group.
Upcoming Programs
Below are the sessions currently available to sign up for, to which we will be adding in the days and weeks to come. | View all upcoming programs
Art and Architecture of Prospect Park Zoo | Virtual Program | Thursday, August 13, 12:30pm
Voices of World War II: Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral Histories | Free Virtual Program | Saturday, August 15, 12:30pm
What's Cooking? Haitian Cuisine with Grandchamps | Free Virtual Program | Tuesday, August 18, 4pm
The Trees of Prospect Park with Howard Goldstein | Free Virtual Program | Wednesday, August 19, 12:30pm
Images d'Épinal: Paper Models from the Turn of the Century | Virtual Program | Sunday, August 23, 12:30pm
Battle of Brooklyn: Revolutionary War Sites of Prospect Park | Virtual Program | Thursday, August 27, 12:30pm
Lighting the Way: Staten Island's National Lighthouse Museum | Free Virtual Program | Monday, August 31, 12:30pm
From Arizona to Missouri: Bookends of World War II | Virtual Program | Wednesday, September 2, 12:30pm
Brooklyn Army Terminal: Nerve Center of World War II | Virtual Program | Sunday, September 6, 11am
Past Programs
You can watch select free programs by clicking the links below, but to watch all past episodes, sign up for a Turnstile Membership.
- Race to Hunts Point: Gamifying New York's Food System | Episode 121
- U-Boats, Bootleggers, and Buoys: The History of the Coast Guard in New York Harbor | Episode 119
- Progressivism and Purified Air: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Living Machines | Episode 112
- Bowne & Co.: Letterpress Printing in 19th-Century New York | Episode 110
- An Unfree Fleet: Slavery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 106
- A Conversation with Think!Chinatown | Episode 105
- In Service to Seafarers from Titanic to Today: Seamen's Church Institute | Episode 103
- COVID-19 and Food Access: An Ongoing Crisis | Free Virtual Program
- Rocking The Boat: Changing Lives on the Bronx River | Virtual Program
- Art in Crisis: A Conversation with Charlotta Janssen | Free Virtual Program
- Virtual Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities | Free Virtual Program
- Struggle and Resilience on Manhattan's Lower East Side | Free Virtual Program
- Voices of Essex Market with Feed Me A Story | Free Virtual Program
- Virtual Visit to Williamsburg's Moore Street Market | Free Virtual Program
- "Mind the Light, Kate": New York's Most Famous Lighthouse Keeper with the Noble Maritime Collection | Free Virtual Program
- From Orchard to Essex: Street Peddlers and Market Vendors with the Tenement Museum
- A Year in Review at Essex Market | Virtual Program
- Immigrant Food for an Immigrant Nation with Nuchas Chief Empanada Officer | Free Virtual Program
- Hospital Ships and Shipwright Tools: Exploring Collections of the South Street Seaport Museum | Free Virtual Program
- Street Organizing: A Conversation with Sean Basinski | Virtual Program
- Animal History of Prospect Park | Virtual Program
- Places New Yorkers Love: In Conversation with Author and Artist John Tebeau | Virtual Program
- A Church Grows in Brooklyn: Historic Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary's | Virtual Program
- Earth Day: Ecology of Prospect Park | Virtual Program
- Explore Brooklyn's Avenue of Puerto Rico | Virtual Program
- By Land or By Sea: The Port of New York Paradox | Virtual Program
- Manufacturing in Crisis: The State of NYC Manufacturing with Adam Friedman | Virtual Program
- Exploring the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History | Virtual Program
- Census Day: Telling Brooklyn's Story Through the US Census | Virtual Program
- NYC Street Vendors: How Can We Help Them? | Virtual Program
- The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 1 | Virtual Program
- Inventions of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Virtual Program
