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BLDG 92 Visiting Artist Michael Miller Explores the Seen and Unseen

This Saturday, July 26 will be the summer installment of our Seasonal Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As always, the tour will be accompanied by a photo contest, …

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USS Slater Celebrates History of Destroyer Escorts

As I write this, the USS Slater, a World War II-era destroyer escort, is steaming its way (actually, being pushed by a tugboat) up the Hudson River back to its …

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USS Slater at Caddell Dry Dock. Credit: Cindy VandenBosch

Explainer: The Brooklyn Navy Yard and the National Register of Historic Places

Last month, we were so excited to learn that the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. But this raises an important question: what on earth does …

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Visitors Share Memories and Mementos

Earlier this month, we hosted a group of retirees from central New Jersey on a tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. On nearly every tour we lead, we have visitors who …

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D-Day Landings and Brooklyn Navy Yard Ships

Around the world today, people are commemorating the anniversary of D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history. The landings finally cracked open “Fortress Europe” and marked the beginning of the …

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photo Contest Winners

The Brooklyn Navy Yard, to quote a famous Brooklynite, “[is] large, [it] contain[s] multitudes.” At once a place of furious activity and industry, it still contains quiet, neglected spaces; once the …

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Thompson Reuters: Benefit Corporations: Organizing for Multiple Stakeholders

Thompson Reuters Sustainability, May 30, 2014 by Shari Helaine Littan In the last couple of years, the phrase “sustainability” seems to have touched every aspect of business. With the adoption of …

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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.

DNAinfo: WWII Boat Cruise Shows Off City’s Harbor History for Fleet Week

DNAinfo New York, May 21, 2014 by Matthew Katz A historical boat cruise will let New Yorkers get up a close look at the city’s maritime past during the World …

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The Perrys of Newport and the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Last week, Cindy and I spent our brief honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island. Even though we were told to relax, how could we resist not doing a little bit of …

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Industry, Old and New, Snapped by Spring Photographers

The submissions are in from our Spring Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As you can see below, the photographers captured a diversity of spaces, from the sealed-up structures …

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Photographers Ready For Spring

Our next Seasonal Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is just a few days away (Saturday, April 19, 11am-1pm – tickets are almost sold out!), and we are pleased …

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“The Wind Rises,” Japan Falls

The Academy Awards are tomorrow night, and nominated is a film that has only hit American cinemas in wide release this weekend, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, up for Best Animated Feature. …

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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 …

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Photographers Capture Brooklyn Navy Yard Industry in Grips of Winter

For some people, a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard is like visiting a zoo — a place showing off something rare and worth preserving. Last Saturday a group of …

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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 …

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Photographer Randy Duchaine to Judge First Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Tour of 2014

Each season, our Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard highlight a different photographer or artist who plies their trade inside the gates of the Yard. In 2013, we featured …

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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 …

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Vote In Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest

Throughout 2013, Turnstile Tours offered a series of photography tours at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in partnership with BLDG 92. These seasonal explorations took visitors all around the Yard and …

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