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AIANY Industrial Waterfront Tour to Freshkills Park | Virtual Tour with Classic Harbor Line

Cruise through the industrial waterways of New York Harbor around Staten Island en route to Freshkills Park—formerly the world’s largest landfill, this 2,200-acre site is being transformed into one of …

Architecture
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Waterfront

Memorial Day Military History Tour of New York Harbor | Virtual Tour with Classic Harbor Line

In honor of Fleet Week New York and Memorial Day, we again worked with Classic Harbor Line to offer this special tour focusing on the military history of New York Harbor—and this time we …

Virtual Programs
Waterfront

Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom with Sara Zewde | Episode 280

Join architect Sara Zewde for this live virtual program as she shares her recent research on the impact of Frederick Law Olmsted’s journeys through the Slave States on his practice …

Prospect Park
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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 …

Prospect Park
Virtual Programs

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Inside Industry
Virtual Programs
Waterfront

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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Waterfront

Boxed in Brooklyn: Robert Gair and the Packaging Revolution | Episode 276

In 1879, Scottish-born businessman Robert Gair stumbled upon an invention that would transform packaging and consumer products forever: a fast, mechanized way to manufacture cardboard boxes. This invention would grow …

Virtual Programs
Waterfront

Fleet Week New York Celebration | Episode 275

After a two-year hiatus, Fleet Week New York is back! So to mark the day that units arrive in New York for the celebration, we will be looking at some of the …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Virtual Programs
Waterfront

Flight deck of USS Bataan during Fleet Week

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 …

Virtual Programs
Waterfront

St. George Ferry Virtual Tour | Virtual Program | Episode 273

While the Staten Island Ferry is the oldest continuously operating ferry line in New York City, the NYC Ferry to the island is the newest. Ride with us from the …

Virtual Programs
Waterfront

May Day: Labor History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 272

Waterfront workers were at the vanguard of the labor movement; the word “strike” has its origins in work stoppages on the London docks in 1768, when sailors “struck” the sails …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Virtual Programs
Waterfront

Polar Bears & Bolsheviks: American Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920 | Episode 271

Following the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia signing a separate peace with Germany, the Allied nations launched a military intervention to try to topple the new Soviet government. A small force …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Virtual Programs
World War I

My Little Chickpea: An Exploration of Falafel | Episode 270

Most of the same food carts selling the ubiquitous street meat also offer a strikingly vegan dish that is both traditional and modern. Falafel checks all the boxes from traditional, …

Street Vending
Virtual Programs

OLMSTED 200: Parks in Conversation | Virtual Tour of Prospect Park and Central Park | Episode 269

Join us for a special virtual tour in celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday that explores two of his New York City masterpieces—Central Park and Prospect Park. Built a …

Prospect Park
Virtual Programs

(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 …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Waterfront
World War II

Trains, Transit, and Tunnels: Understanding the Bay Ridge Branch and the Interborough Express | Episode 265

With the recent release of a feasibility study by the MTA on the “Interborough Express,” a little-known stretch of train tracks is suddenly in the news. The Bay Ridge Branch is a …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Virtual Programs
Waterfront

New York City’s Lost Canals | Episode 264

While New York City sat at the nexus of many important canals built in the 19th century — the Erie, Morris, and Delaware & Raritan among them — the city …

Architecture
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Virtual Programs
Waterfront

Celebrate Black History and Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 263

To celebrate the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 221st birthday, which takes place during Black History Month, we’re looking at the past and present of Black trailblazers and innovators at the Yard. …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
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