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PRESS RELEASE: Turnstile Tours Launches New Street Food Tour of Jackson Heights, Queens

For more than a decade, New York City-based social enterprise Turnstile Tours has been sharing the stories and flavors of Manhattan’s street food, and now they are coming to Queens.

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Designer of America & His Staten Island Roots | Episode 279

Join historian and filmmaker Laurence Cotton, originator of and consulting producer to the PBS special Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, as he shares the remarkable life and career of the …

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Virtual Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Open House New York | Episode 278

More than 50 Brooklyn Navy Yard tenants welcomed the public on Open House New York Weekend, with manufacturers, artists, designers, and eateries hosting tours and open studios. We again hosted a …

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NSMBL: Planning a trip to New York? Then this Food Cart Tour in Queens is highly recommended

About three weeks ago we visited the city that never sleeps; New York City. There is plenty to do, almost too much. Not in a negative sense, because it’s all fun.

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De Telegraaf: Up To Date in New York

De Telegraaf (Netherlands), September 24, 2022 by Babette Wieringa We will have lunch this time on the street. Walking, during a real Food Cart Tour in Midtown (bookable via turnstiletours.com). …

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The Tideshift Project: Session 3 | Episode 277

The Waterfront Museum presents the final session of The Tideshift Project, featuring stories of waterfront workers from the pre-containerization era and people working in today’s final mile shipping industry. Tideshift is …

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Barge Family Reunion Celebration: The Tideshift Project, Session 2 | Episode 274

The Waterfront Museum presents the Barge Family Reunion Celebration, stories and images from people who have lived and worked aboard barges and their families. This is the second part of The …

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Job Opening: Tour Guide and Education Specialist

We are seeking to add a new team member who is enthusiastic, responsible, reliable, inquisitive, and passionate about leading in-depth, interactive, and inclusive tour experiences for people of all ages …

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(Re)connecting Brooklyn’s History: Brooklyn’s Homefront during World War II with Brooklyn Public Library

The history and legacy of the Second World War can be seen all around us in Brooklyn. Once home to hundreds of factories, shipyards, and warehouses, and responsible for sending …

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CUNY TV: Brooklyn Navy Yard | DiverseCITY

CUNY TV, March 18, 2022 On this edition, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and its big investment in small business. Ensuring no neighbor is left out of the windfall from the …

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A Staten Island Farmer’s Travels Abroad with Justin Martin | Episode 260

Join the Friends of Olmsted-Beil House for a fascinating presentation by Justin Martin, author of Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Justin will highlight Olmsted’s travels to England while he lived …

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The Tideshift Project: Session 1 with the Waterfront Museum | Episode 246

The Waterfront Museum presents The Tideshift Project, an oral history collecting event presented live aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad No. 79 wooden lighterage barge moored in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This three-part …

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Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era | Episode 239

In colonial New York, reliable power came from muscles (human and animal), firewood, and tides. From Spuyten Duyvil to Marine Park, Wallabout Bay to Flushing Bay, settlers turned many tidal …

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Sonic Boom and Bust: Concorde in New York | Episode 230

Earlier this month, Boom Technology announced that United Airlines planned to purchase its Overture supersonic airliner, which they hope to bring into service by the end of the decade. If …

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Exploring Staten Island’s Olmsted-Beil House | Episode 226

Join us for a special panel discussion and virtual tour of Staten Island’s landmark Olmsted-Beil House, an historic farmhouse and museum where landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted began his monumental career. …

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Tours for NIA Brooklyn Families

Please use the calendar below to reserve tickets on upcoming tours, and scroll down to see more detailed descriptions of the current tour offerings. When booking, use the code provided …

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Six More Weeks of Winter | Feb 2021 Member Newsletter

As most of the country is blanketed in snow and ice, and we’re bracing for another several inches of snow in New York City, we will admit – we love …

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Means of Ready Escape | Jan 2021 Member Newsletter

“From many points of the drives, rides and walks, the eye will range over a meadow-like expanse, wherein the first definite obstruction or break in the turfy surface will be …

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