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Author: Andrew Gustafson

Busting Myths About Street Vending

In a strange coincidence, New York City’s two tabloids, the Post and the Daily News, have unleashed a one–two punch against street vendors this week.  In depicting vendors as unsanitary …

  • Street Vending

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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

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Red Hook Crit Takes Over Brooklyn Navy Yard June 8

The Red Hook Criterium, the professional racing series of growing fame, is coming to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Saturday, June 8, for a night of competition under the lights and …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Arrested Development: Parable of Street Vending

Arrested Development is back. We’ve waited for this day for seven years, and as we look back on the show’s three incredible seasons in anticipation of the fourth, I’ve come …

  • Street Vending

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NYC Fleet Week Canceled, but USS Franklin Not Forgotten

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been a place of refuge for much of its history. During its 165-year run as a naval shipyard, it did not just send ships down …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • World War II

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LA Stories: More Than Just Food Trucks

Cindy and Andrew recently traveled to Los Angeles for a much-needed vacation.  But of course, they could not resist exploring the waterfronts, markets, and street food of Southern California.  Over …

  • Public Markets
  • Street Vending

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Vending Beyond the Street: de Royal Dinges Factory

One of the amazing things about mobile food vendors is how much they are able to cram into a tiny curbside kitchen – they’re bristling with compartments meticulously arranged to …

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Our Day at City Hall: Council Approves Package of Street Vendor Measures

As promised, Wednesday was an inspiring day, the culmination of years of hard work and campaigning by our partners, vendors, and friends. Though a seemingly small piece of legislation was …

  • Street Vending

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Presidential Visits to the Brooklyn Navy Yard

[Read part 2 of this post, where we have uncovered visits of seven more presidents to the Brooklyn Navy Yard] Despite 165 years of operating as a federal shipyard, and …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Winter Photography Tour Submissions

One week ago, we held our first Seasonal Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the submissions are in!  Several tour participants shared photos they took on the tour …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Photography

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Groundhog Day in NYC: All Politics is Local

For the fourth year in a row, we dragged ourselves out of bed at 5:30 in the morning and made the trek over the Verrazano Bridge to see New York …

  • General

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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

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Celebrate the Season: Our Favorite Holiday Songs

Last night Cindy and I kicked off our holiday season by decorating our tree, baking some treats, and turning the iTunes music library to “Christmas – shuffle.” Many of the …

  • Public Markets
  • Street Vending

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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

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

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

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Turnstile Tours at the 2012 Vendy Awards [Video]

As a street vendor we know likes to say, “Food is love.” If that’s so, then the Vendy Awards are a massive, jubilant, gut-busting celebration of that love. Each year, …

  • Street Vending

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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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Eat to Blog: FiDi Food Cart Tour With Turnstile Tours

Eat to Blog, September 14, 2012 by Donnie Tsang [I]t wasn’t just a food tour but also an educational one. I love history. I love learning about things that we …

  • Press
  • Street Vending

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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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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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