Virtual Programs - Turnstile Tours

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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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

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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Waterfront

(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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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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Waterfront

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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Waterfront

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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Waterfront

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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Chef Kasem’s Lobster Tom Yum | Thai Food in America Recipes

This recipe comes to us from Chef Kasem “Pop” Saengsawang, owner of the West Coast’s Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine, who made this sensational and decadent Lobster Tom Yum on our Thai …

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Chef Baobao’s Larb Isan | Thai Food in America Recipes

This recipe comes to us from Chef “Baobao” Suchanan Aksornnan, owner of Brooklyn’s Baoburg, who made larb from Thailand’s Northeast (Isan) region on our Thai Food in America series, episode …

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Amazing Thailand Uptown’s Somtam Papaya Salad | Thai Food in America Recipes

This recipe comes to us from Amazing Thailand Uptown of Minneapolis, where Chefs Kulsatree Noree and Sukie Panthialath made classic papaya salads on our Thai Food in America series, episode …

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Chef Warunee Mouthapong’s Spicy Curried Rice Salad | Thai Food in America Recipes

This recipe comes to us from Chef Warunee Mouthapong, owner of Siam Bistro-Miami, who made spicy curried rice salad or Yum Naem Kao Tod, on our Thai Food in America …

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Marnee Thai’s Pad Thai | Thai Food in America Recipes

Chef Chai Siriyan founded San Francisco’s Marnee Thai in 1986, and since then he has been serving his take on the star attraction of any Thai menu: Pad Thai. Chef …

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PRESS RELEASE: 100 Days, 100 Virtual Tours: How a Small NYC Tour Company Keeps Going During the Pandemic

On Wednesday, June 17, Turnstile Tours will broadcast their 100th “virtual tour” since the New York City lockdown began, a trivia night looking back at the highlights of the last …

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