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- [Around Manhattan Architecture Cruises | Offered Daily](https://turnstiletours.com/around-manhattan-architecture-cruises-offered-daily/) - Circumnavigate Manhattan and learn about the architectural history of New York.
- [Harbor Tours to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday | July 2–8](https://turnstiletours.com/harbor-tours-to-celebrate-americas-250th-birthday-july-2-8/) - Celebrate America's 250th birthday on a cruise with the naval and tall ships assembling for this historic event.
- [Military History Harbor Tour | Monday, May 25, 10am](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-harbor-tour/) - Join us on Memorial Day for a special, in-depth tour of the rich military history of New York Harbor.
- [Open House New York Around Manhattan Cruise | Wednesday, May 20, 6pm](https://turnstiletours.com/open-house-new-york-around-manhattan-cruise-wednesday-may-20-6pm/) - Take a sunset cruise around Manhattan with Open House New York to learn about changing land use along our city's waterfront.
- [Adams, Jefferson, and the Unlikely Founding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/adams-jefferson-and-the-founding-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-213-years-ago-today/) - 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 history of shipbuilding and innovation, and its continued importance to the economy of Brooklyn as an industrial park, but it almost never existed. Its founding
- [What was the First Ship Built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard?](https://turnstiletours.com/what-was-the-first-ship-built-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - For the past two years, we have had the opportunity to work with third and fourth graders in the Brooklyn Historical Society's CASA program. These young scholars are tasked with writing a book about a place or story important to Brooklyn's history. In 2018, we helped students learning about Prospect Park, Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenpoint, and
- [Exhibition: An Ecosystem of Access: Building a More Inclusive Storm King](https://turnstiletours.com/exhibition-an-ecosystem-of-access-building-a-more-inclusive-storm-king/) - Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor sculpture museum in New York’s Hudson Valley, has transformed its approach to accessibility from isolated accommodations to a comprehensive “ecosystem of access” that integrates physical improvements, staff training, and community partnerships.
- [Frommer's New York City 2026: Turnstile Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/traveller-australia-ten-of-the-worlds-greatest-food-experiences-right-now/) - This means that a lot of what you'll learn on their history-rich outings comes from direct research, not from reading someone else's books, making the tours unusually compelling. Turnstile is the sole tour operator of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Army Terminal; it also offers food-cart tours and Prospect Park tours.
- [Air New Zealand: Queens for a Day](https://turnstiletours.com/air-new-zealand-queens-for-a-day/) - “Peel back Queens’ food landscape and you’ll find successive waves of immigrants – from Ireland and Bhutan to Ecuador and Lebanon – who’ve brought their rich culinary heritage with them,” says Amanda Adler-Brennan, guide on a food walking tour of Jackson Heights, the Queens suburb with the largest foreign-born population (and an impressive array of food trucks).
- [Podcast: Unifying Connections During COVID-19](https://turnstiletours.com/podcast-unifying-connections-during-covid-19/) - Since the WHO has categorized COVID-19 as a pandemic, the global economy has suffered, and millions of people are filing for unemployment. There are several webinars that are designed to help brands and companies stay relevant, but several lack the fundamental issue for most small business owners (i.e. restaurants, cafes, etc.), which is, how do I get money into my business now.
- [Crain's: Mom-and-pop shops faced red tape—or silence—from PPP lenders](https://turnstiletours.com/the-telegraph-the-20-greatest-ways-to-see-new-york-copy/) - For small-business owner Cindy VandenBosch, who runs Turnstile Tours from her office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the lack of communication from JPMorgan Chase on the status of her Paycheck Protection Program loan prompted her to take desperate measures. When she couldn’t get a single Chase representative on the phone for days, VandenBosch said she rented a Citi bike, donned a mask and gloves, and rode to a branch in Sunset Park for answers.
- [PRESS RELEASE: 100 Days, 100 Virtual Tours: How a Small NYC Tour Company Keeps Going During the Pandemic](https://turnstiletours.com/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 three months. The small Brooklyn-based tour company – which develops and operates tours in partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, NYCEDC, Street Vendor
- [Crain's: Brooklyn tour company has found new life online](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-city-sightseeing-is-slowly-returning-with-creative-tours-2-2/) - When the Covid-19 pandemic threatened to shut down their Brooklyn tour-guide business—Turnstile Tours—husband-and-wife team Cindy VandenBosch and Andrew Gustafson reinvented their nine-year-old company on the fly. Founded in 2012, Turnstile Tours’ unofficial motto is “We share stories of how New York City works.” By taking customers behind the scenes of different aspects of city life, especially in Brooklyn, the company aims to highlight the work of ordinary New Yorkers.
- [WCBS 880: NYC tour company grows revenue with new profitable services](https://turnstiletours.com/nyc-tour-company-grows-revenue-with-new-profitable-services/) - Cindy VandenBosch and Andrew Gustafson are the husband and wife duo at the helm of Turnstile Tours. Both of them have decades of experience in history, museums and tourism. Over the past 10 years, they've built a diverse portfolio of programs with unique New York stories at historic sites such as the South Street Seaport, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
- [Insight Vacations: Mixing Business and Pleasure](https://turnstiletours.com/insight-vacations-mixing-business-and-pleasure/) - On Best of Eastern Canada & USA, join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience and immerse yourself in market life. Run by Cindy and Andrew of Turnstile Tours & Studio, meet vendors, enjoy a live cooking demonstration and learn how this nonprofit run market contributes to countless programs aimed to provide quality, affordable food to the community.
- [Yahoo! Australia: 'Ridiculous prices' called out as Australia copies U.S. favourite: '$19 plus surcharge'](https://turnstiletours.com/yahoo-australia-ridiculous-prices-called-out-as-australia-copies-u-s-favourite-19-plus-surcharge/) - In fact, food trucks are so central to the city's existence that you can do a tour of them in Jackson Heights, Queens with a company called Turnstile Tours (and, just quietly, I strongly recommend you do).
- [Society for Industrial Archeology: Death of an Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/society-for-industrial-archeology-death-of-an-army-terminal/) - On Aug. 8, 2021, New York Harbor was shaken by an explosion, and 1.5 million sq. ft. of historic structures came tumbling down. The Military Ocean Terminal Bayonne (MOTBY) was originally conceived as a commercial facility, a 440-acre manufactured peninsula for rail and maritime shipping.
- [Building Knowledge Networks to Increase Accessibility in Cultural Institutions](https://turnstiletours.com/building-knowledge-networks-to-increase-accessibility-in-cultural-institutions/) - A Project Access White Paper with Art Beyond Sight, 2013 by Danielle Linzer and Cindy VandenBosch Abstract: While museums and cultural institutions have had a clear legal obligation to make their programs, services, and facilities accessible to people with disabilities for decades, educational and professional development opportunities for staff working in the realm of accessibility
- [Meetings Today: A Different Perspective on NYC, From the Water](https://turnstiletours.com/meetings-today-a-different-perspective-on-nyc-from-the-water/) - After 36 years living in NYC, the city is as familiar as my hand. Fresh looks are always rejuvenating, though, such as my recent Classic Harbor Line experience. Based at historic Chelsea Piers.
- [Canberra Times: Where to eat delicious food like a local in the city that never sleeps](https://turnstiletours.com/canberra-times-where-to-eat-delicious-food-like-a-local-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps/) - Turnstile Tours offers several food cart tours in New York but this is the newest and arguably most interesting - a chance to sample dishes you simply can't find in other boroughs.
- [AARP: 10 Top Walking Tours Across the U.S.](https://turnstiletours.com/aarp-10-top-walking-tours-across-the-u-s/) - From 1801 to 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard served as a shipbuilding and repair facility. During World War II, more than 70,000 people worked at the yard. Today, it is owned by New York City and is home to more than 550 businesses.
- [Waterwire: Andrew Gustafson’s NYC History in 10 Boats](https://turnstiletours.com/waterwire-andrew-gustafsons-nyc-history-in-10-boats/) - What can we learn about New York City and its waterfront from its boats? Waterwire is inviting people from the maritime world and beyond to share their perspectives on NYC History in 10 Boats. Below is our 14th installment, with Andrew Gustafson.
- [Explore Sunset Park During Open House New York Weekend 2025](https://turnstiletours.com/explore-sunset-park-during-open-house-new-york-weekend-2025/) - Explore one of the premier destinations during Open House New York Weekend, Oct 17–19, 2025, where there will be tours, galleries, studios, and fabrication spaces open to the public.
- [Thirty Years After Famed Show, Art Carries On At Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/thirty-years-after-famed-show-art-carries-on-at-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - It was supposed to rival the Armory Show, billed as "potentially the most controversial and innovative exhibition" since that groundbreaking moment in 1913. Thirty years ago this month, "Terminal New York" opened, and 400 artists filled the abandoned space of the Brooklyn Army Terminal with a vast and riotous display of art that could hardly
- [Italian Service Units in the New York Port of Embarkation](https://turnstiletours.com/italian-service-units-in-the-new-york-port-of-embarkation/) - During World War II, nearly half a million Axis prisoners of war were held in the United States. The vast majority of these POWs were German, and a small number (less than 1%) were from Japan, but the remainder were Italian, and they fell into a special category. 34,000 Italian soldiers were allowed to work
- [From Fulton to Constellation: The Worst Accidents in the History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/worst-accidents-in-the-history-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Today marks the 57th anniversary of perhaps the darkest day in the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To commemorate the fire on board the USS Constellation, we are going to look back at some of the most notable and deadliest accidents in the history of the Yard. Shipbuilding is a dangerous business (even today),
- [Reclamation and Renewal: A Weekend at the Olmsted Network Conference](https://turnstiletours.com/reclamation-and-renewal-a-weekend-at-the-olmsted-network-conference/) - On the last sunny weekend in September, I had the privilege of attending a conference filled with people passionate about landscapes. The Olmsted Network is a national organization using advocacy, education, and stewardship to champion parks across the country with connections to Frederick Law Olmsted and the firm he founded with his sons, F.L.O., Jr.
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Frederick Louis Riefkohl](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-frederick-lois-riefkohl/) - Frederick Louis Riefkohl (1889–1969) The histories of Puerto Rico and of the US military are deeply intertwined, and much of that history runs through the career of Frederick Louis Riefkohl, the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the US Naval Academy, to win the Navy Cross, and to achieve the rank of rear admiral. Normally we would not consider
- [Archtober Podcast: Brooklyn Grange Farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/archtober-podcast-brooklyn-grange-farm-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Throughout AIA NY's Archtober – New York Architecture Month – each day has a "Building of the Day," which is highlighted with tours and other programming. This year, three of the 29 featured sites are located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including New Lab, the Naval Cemetery Landscape, and on October 3, the Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm. As
- [Turnstile Newsletter | July 2024](https://turnstiletours.com/turnstile-newsletter-july-2024/) - Our visit under Battleship NJ, Prospect Park & Lefferts House, Disability Pride Month Tour of Brooklyn Navy Yard, and OHNY's special port cruise.
- [International Placemaking Week Resources](https://turnstiletours.com/placemaking/) - Brooklyn Navy Yard Tours Brooklyn Army Terminal Tours Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation Brooklyn Army Terminal (NYCEDC) Inclusive Best Practices for Guided Tours Open House New York Public Engagement Guide "Bringing Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront to Life Through Guided Tours" presentation slides
- [Guide to the Ships of Fleet Week New York 2024](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-to-the-ships-of-fleet-week-new-york-2024/) - Our favorite week of the year has arrived—it's Fleet Week! This year's visitors will include 11 ships from the US Navy, US Coast Guard, and the German Navy, which will be docking on Manhattan's West Side and at Staten Island's Homeport pier. There is one important change to note: most of the ships in Manhattan
- [Meet Our Team: Amanda Adler Brennan](https://turnstiletours.com/meet-our-team-amanda-adler-brennan/) - Over the next several weeks, we will be sharing brief profiles about our wonderful and talented team at Turnstile Tours & Studio. Next up is our Food Tours Manager Amanda Adler Brennan. Brian, Where are you from originally? I was born right here in New York City, and we lived just a few blocks from
- [From USS Wrangell to Turnstile Tours, "The Saga of Salty Sam" Continues](https://turnstiletours.com/from-uss-wrangell-to-turnstile-tours-the-saga-of-salty-sam-continues/) - Update, February 20, 2024: Sadly, we lost Salty earlier this year, but she will forever live on in our hearts. Last month, we at Turnstile Tours had the pleasure of adding a new member to our team – Salty. She is an Australian Cattle Dog mix (we think), and we adopted her from our nearby
- [New York Food Trucks Battle Boston Food Trucks This Weekend](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-food-trucks-battle-boston-food-trucks-this-weekend/) - The first ever Food Truck Throwdown is happening this weekend in Boston. Some of our favorite trucks, including Wafels & Dinges (which is featured on almost every single one of our food cart tours) are heading down to Beantown to have a friendly food fight with some of Boston's most popular food trucks. The match
- [The Life and Death of Ships: Peter Hutton's "At Sea"](https://turnstiletours.com/the-life-and-death-of-ships-peter-huttons-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 life - of men and ships - at sea. The screening was following by a discussion moderated by filmmaker Jem Cohen. The first film, "Images
- [Turnstile Tours at the 2012 Vendy Awards [Video]](https://turnstiletours.com/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, vendors from across New York City are brought to Governors Island not so much to compete, but the share their food and stand up for
- [Pouring Concrete: The Brooklyn Navy Yard Prepares for War](https://turnstiletours.com/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 the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into the global war, US military planners saw the need to expand the country's navy in order to
- [Food Trucks Helping Communities Recover from Sandy](https://turnstiletours.com/food-trucks-helping-communities-recover-from-sandy/) - As we all know by now, the actual wind, rain, and storm surges from Hurricane Sandy this weekend were only the beginning. Thousands of people have lost their homes, and whole swaths of neighborhoods have been destroyed. As the weather gets colder this week, it's more important than ever for those without shelter and power
- [Food to Eat Hosts a Downtown Relief Food Crawl](https://turnstiletours.com/food-to-eat-hosts-a-downtown-relief-food-crawl/) - Our friends at Food to Eat, an online ordering service for food carts and trucks, have been very involved with both street vendors and restaurants - from both a business standpoint and as advocates. This weekend they're helping out many restaurants who suffered losses and damages from Hurricane Sandy. Their Downtown Relief Food Crawl will
- [Neighborhood Women: Tour Consulting](https://turnstiletours.com/tour-consulting-neighborhood-women/) - Technical assistance in walking tour development for neighborhood placemaking initiative // 2012 Turnstile founder Cindy VandenBosch provided support to Neighborhood Women, a non-profit organization based in North Brooklyn, to help shape and develop a walking tour based on the stories of female community leaders as part of a place-marking initiative. Cindy provided feedback to the tour
- [Eat to Blog: FiDi Food Cart Tour With Turnstile Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/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 normally overlook or just don’t have the time to notice. I also love the chance to chat with the vendors themselves and to hear from
- [Celebrate Jackson Heights with Jeff Orlick and the 82nd Street Partnership](https://turnstiletours.com/celebrate-jackson-heights-with-jeff-orlick-and-the-82nd-street-partnership/) - Our good friend Jeff Orlick, who runs food tours in Queens, is working with the 82nd Street Partnership to organize a free festival in Elmhurst/Jackson Heights on Friday called Viva La Comida! The event will showcase the exciting diversity in the community and celebrate the food, music, craft, and culture of the area. In addition
- [Merchant Mariners, Unsung Heroes of World War II](https://turnstiletours.com/merchant-marines-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 branch, the Merchant Marine. While the wartime exploits of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Army Air Corps are often celebrated, merchant seamen have received short
- [Navy Yard Manufacturer IceStone Uses Crowdsourcing to Recover from Sandy](https://turnstiletours.com/manufacturer-icestone-recovers-from-sandy-with-crowdsourcing/) - We all know that glass is made of sand, but Hurricane Sandy was no friend to recycled glass countertop manufacturer IceStone. The Brooklyn Navy Yard tenant was hit hard by the storm, with their manufacturing and warehouse floor submerged by almost four feet of water, causing damage to their facility and materials. The East River
- [Celebrate the Season: Our Favorite Holiday Songs](https://turnstiletours.com/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 songs you'll find on that playlist we have learned about, and come to love, from our experiences researching, developing, and giving tours in New York.
- [The Brooklyn Navy Yard's "Lincoln" Photo](https://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-navy-yards-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 in it, on Saturday's Seasonal Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As far as we know, the man pictured in the foreground with the
- [Street Vendors Need Lower Fines, Not Shake Downs from City](https://turnstiletours.com/street-vendors-need-lower-fines-not-shake-downs-from-city/) - A small item in the mayor's draft budget that was released today caught our attention, because it may have big impacts on the street vendors we work with. Mayor Bloomberg wants to try to collect the millions of dollars in unpaid fines issued to vendors, and he wants to do it by spending $580,000 of
- [Groundhog Day in NYC: All Politics is Local](https://turnstiletours.com/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 City's only weather predicting rodent, Staten Island Chuck. Usually it is Mayor Michael Bloomberg who listens to Chuck and decodes his Groundhogese, and for the
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Winter Photography Tour Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/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 on Instagram, and now we are sharing them with you. Professional photographer (well known for his work at National Geographic) and Navy Yard tenant Robert
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard a Photo Haven for Every Season of Photographer](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-a-photo-haven-for-every-season-of-photographer/) - New York City is a fine place for a photographer, offering eternal photographic fodder for both inspiration and subject matter. Because of the camera, our city’s rise to urban stardom has been well-documented. Our people and places come and go, but photographs freeze them in time and excite a special part of our intellect. That
- [Presidential Visits to the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/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 at one time being the largest shipyard in the entire world, relatively few sitting US presidents have paid a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- [City Council Set to Vote to Lower Fines on Street Vendors](https://turnstiletours.com/city-council-set-to-vote-to-lower-fines-on-street-vendors/) - Wednesday is a big day for New York City's street vendors. After months of stalling, the speaker of the City Council (and mayoral candidate) Christine Quinn has finally promised to bring to a vote legislation to reduce and simplify fines imposed on vendors. This vote comes after years of campaigning and lobbying by the Street Vendor
- [Our Day at City Hall: Council Approves Package of Street Vendor Measures](https://turnstiletours.com/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 approved by the New York City Council (and it's not law yet, as the mayor has promised to veto it), it is something that will
- [Vendy Awards Roll into New Orleans March 13](https://turnstiletours.com/vendy-awards-roll-into-new-orleans-march-13/) - On this wintry Friday in New York City, our thoughts are with the many street vendors slinging hot dogs and chicken over rice in the snow and slush. But we are also daydreaming of milder climes, where vendors don't need to warm themselves by the flattop, and ungloved fingers aren't frozen making change. That magical
- [Next Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard April 20](https://turnstiletours.com/next-photography-tour-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-april-20/) - As springtime eases into our consciousness, photographers around New York City emerge from hibernation and dust off their lenses, and photos of brightness arising from drab cityscapes begin to fill the memory cards of phones and cameras (and for some still, actual film). But what can photographers do to breathe new life into typical process
- [Vending Beyond the Street: de Royal Dinges Factory](https://turnstiletours.com/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 deliver and often complex menu to customers quickly and efficiently. But what you see on the street is often only a fraction of the operation.
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photography Tour Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-spring-photography-tour-submissions/) - We recently held our second installment of our Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and to all those who participated in the photo contest, we salute you! Not only were the submissions diverse and vibrant, but we had over 50 entries! Three winning photos will be chosen next week by Yard-based artist Thomas Witte.
- [National Geographic Intelligent Travel: Hyper-Local Tours in NYC](https://turnstiletours.com/national-geographic-intelligent-travel-hyper-local-tours-in-nyc/) - This very atypical tour was well worth the effort — for my family, and for others who want to dig a little deeper while they’re in New York. Best of all, if you’re in the city with the kids, besides maybe saving you some money, you won’t have to worry about finding a family-friendly restaurant and keeping the kids entertained – at least for one afternoon.
- [Atlas Obscura: Realm of Wounded Soldiers: Abandoned Brooklyn Naval Hospital](https://turnstiletours.com/atlas-obscura-realm-of-wounded-soldiers-abandoned-brooklyn-naval-hospital/) - Since it was decommissioned in 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has morphed into a thriving center for independent industry and creative businesses, with many of its old military complexes and ship-building facilities being transformed into offices and studios. However, there are still areas of this massive area that once was a hub of naval ship construction that remain abandoned, and there it's easiest to descend quickly into the Brooklyn Navy Yard's history.
- [Meet Our Team: Sustainability Guide Doug Chapman](https://turnstiletours.com/meet-our-team-sustainability-guide-doug-chapman/) - Meet Doug Chapman, head of Sustainability Programming and leader of our Sustainability Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- [LA Stories: More Than Just Food Trucks](https://turnstiletours.com/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 the coming weeks, they will be sharing some of their experiences. Confession: we travelled all the way to Los Angeles, and we did not eat
- [Spring Photography Tour Offers New Perspective on Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/spring-photography-tour-offers-new-perspective-on-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - The photos we’ve collected from our Spring Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard reflect the huge variety of material in the yard. Over thirty photographers packed the bus on the morning of Saturday, April 20, and for two hours we buzzed about the industrial waterfront. An overcast day provided good, diffused light for the group,
- [NYC Fleet Week Canceled, but USS Franklin Not Forgotten](https://turnstiletours.com/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 the ways and off to war; it took in ships in the most desperate, hopeless shape, and put them back into fighting order. During World
- [Arrested Development: Parable of Street Vending](https://turnstiletours.com/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 to one conclusion: at its heart, this is a show about street vending. As the show follows the long, meandering downfall of the Bluth family, I
- [Support Turnstile Turtles in Gowanus Canal Race June 15](https://turnstiletours.com/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 waters of Brooklyn's beloved canal for the Gowanus Challenge canoe race. The event is put on by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club to raise money
- [Red Hook Crit Takes Over Brooklyn Navy Yard June 8](https://turnstiletours.com/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 cranes of the yard. Spectators are welcome into the yard for this event, which will feature a 5k run and qualifying races, as well as
- [Summer Photography Tour Shows Navy Yard in Full Bloom](https://turnstiletours.com/summer-photography-tour-shows-navy-yard-in-full-bloom/) - The next installment of our year-long series of Seasonal Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is coming up next week (Saturday, July 20, 11am-1pm), with a new perspective on the yard and a new yard-based photographer who will judge our photo contest. If you're unfamiliar with these tours, here's how it works: we meet
- [Busting Myths About Street Vending](https://turnstiletours.com/post-daily-news-perpetuate-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 scofflaws and freeloaders, these articles use a few atypical examples to mislead the public and turn opinion against vendors. The Post got things started on
- [Summer Brooklyn Navy Yard Photos Span the Ages](https://turnstiletours.com/summer-brooklyn-navy-yard-photos-span-the-ages/) - While looking through the submissions from the participants on our Summer Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I was reminded of one of the grandest works of art we have right here in New York City, Thomas Cole's Course of Empire, which is housed at the New-York Historical Society. At about the same time the
- [Meet Our Team: Tour Guide Rich Garr](https://turnstiletours.com/meet-our-team-tour-guide-rich-garr/) - Over the next several weeks, we will be posting brief interviews with all of our great team members at Turnstile Tours. From historians to actors, special education professionals to artists, our team possesses a wide range of experience and expertise that helps to make our tours well-crafted, engaging, and accessible to any audience. [Update: Rich left
- [Winning Photos from Brooklyn Navy Yard Summer Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/winning-photos-from-brooklyn-navy-yard-summer-tour/) - The results are in for our Brooklyn Navy Yard Summer Photography Tour! Contest judge and Yard-based photographer Amy Fronczkiewicz has picked her three favorite photos from this season’s Instagram submissions out of a total of 87 entries. Here they are in no particular order – drumroll please … Amy had this to say about this entry
- [Couple Celebrates Marriage with Street Vendors on Food Cart Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/couple-celebrates-marriage-with-street-vendors-on-food-cart-tour/) - We've known for a while that food carts and trucks have become a popular catering choice for modern weddings. But until now, nobody has ever celebrated their nuptials by eating on our food cart tour. Last week, we hosted Sarah and Markus, a German couple who had a destination wedding in New York. Their first
- [Turnstile Tours Releases First Annual Benefit Report](https://turnstiletours.com/turnstile-tours-releases-first-annual-benefit-report/) - You may have seen on our website or promotional materials that Turnstile Tours is a "New York State-registered Benefit Corporation" and wondered, what on earth does that mean? To answer that question, we have released our first annual Benefit Report, which we are excited to share with our partners, customers, stakeholders, and the general
- [Brooklyn Army Terminal: Fortress of Prohibition](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-army-terminal-fortress-of-prohibition/) - On May 15, 1918, ground was broken for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, a colossal warehouse and transportation hub designed to deliver American troops and supplies to the fields of Flanders. World War I would end before the complex was completed, but it would soon find a different use, fighting a different foe: alcohol. Prohibition came
- [Labor Day Weekend: New Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/labor-day-weekend-new-tours-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - This weekend, explore the Brooklyn waterfront with Turnstile Tours! From sidewalk botany to intermodal transportation to the Battle of Guadalcanal, our tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Brooklyn Army Terminal will explore historic sites and and innovative industries. Saturday kicks off with our World War II Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Based around
- [Brooklyn "B-Corps" Offer New Models for Business Success](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-b-corps-offer-new-models-for-business-success/) - Today, many of the products we buy are slapped with a dizzying array of certification labels. You’ve probably seen the USDA certification attached to organic food products, or the Fair Trade label on coffee. Sustainably-harvested wood has the Forest Stewardship Council’s FSC certification system, and Cradle to Cradle certification covers everything from raw materials and industrial products
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard-Based Photographer Davina Zagury Feinberg to Judge Fall Photo Tour Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-based-photographer-davina-zagury-to-judge-fall-photo-tour-contest/) - When Brooklyn Navy Yard-based photographer Davina Zagury Feinberg moved to Brooklyn from Israel ten years ago, she had the notion that she could make it as an artist. As we sat together in the café atop BLDG 92 in the Yard last week, it was apparent that she had done just that. We at Turnstile Tours
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Fall Photos Are In!](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-fall-photos-are-in/) - Usually a cloudy day is not ideal for a tour – but for our Fall Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the cloudy weather could not have been better. The light during the tour two Saturdays ago was diffused by the clouds, which made for an evenly-lit and crisp batch of photos. And the
- [USS Iowa: Brooklyn-Built Battleship Lives on in LA](https://turnstiletours.com/uss-iowa-brooklyn-built-battleship-lives-on-in-la/) - Earlier this year, Cindy and I had the privilege of visiting one of the largest and most decorated ships ever built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the battleship USS Iowa. Launched from the Yard in 1942, for more than a year she has resided in Los Angeles as a fantastic museum ship. Thanks to the
- [Photographers Come From All Over To Snap Brooklyn Navy Yard in Fall](https://turnstiletours.com/photographers-come-from-all-over-to-snap-brooklyn-navy-yard-in-fall/) - The three winning photographers came from three different states to explore the Brooklyn Navy Yard on our Seasonal Photography Tour on October 19. And our contest judge, photographer Davina Zagury Feinberg, came to the Brooklyn Navy Yard from Thailand (via Israel and other spots around NYC) as a tenant four years ago. It is no
- [Happy International Street Vendors Day!](https://turnstiletours.com/happy-international-street-vendors-day/) - November 14 is International Street Vendors Day, a global celebration first organized by StreetNet International in 2012. The purpose of this day is for all street vendors and advocacy organizations to express their solidarity and work together to support the hard-working vendors of the world. We have spent the last four years working with dozens
- [Discover Uncommon Gifts on Our Brooklyn Army Terminal Tour Nov. 24](https://turnstiletours.com/discover-uncommon-gifts-on-our-brooklyn-army-terminal-tour-nov-24/) - Looking for unique, memorable gifts for the holiday season? Well, this Sunday, our walking tour of the Brooklyn Army Terminal will feature a special visit to one of the facility's largest tenants, online retailer UncommonGoods, which develops, sells, and ships fantastically creative, one-of-a-kind items from their headquarters in Sunset Park. While most of our tours
- [Vote In Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/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 gave them time to capture small details up-close or step back and set up a landscape shot. From the cranes of the shipyard to the
- [Singapore Tourism Board & National Heritage Board: Guided Tour Consulting](https://turnstiletours.com/guided-tour-consulting-singapore-tourism-board-national-heritage-board/) - Guided Tour Consulting for the Attractions and Experience Development Series in Singapore // 2013 Staff from Turnstile Tours and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum were invited to Singapore by the country's Tourism Board, Association of Singapore Attractions, Workforce Development Agency, and the National Heritage Board to provide trainings and consultations on storytelling skills and developing more
- [New York Times: A Return to Duty for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-times-a-return-to-duty-for-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-hospital/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard is known for its muscular collection of industrial architecture. Here, the battleship Missouri and other warships were built and repaired until the yard closed five decades ago. The regular weekend tours of the Navy Yard cover that and more, but at the end comes an unexpected treat: the magnificent, slightly sagging Naval Hospital, a ghostly marble temple built in 1838 and empty for two decades. A new plan may sweep away the cobwebs.
- [New York Daily News: Brooklyn Army Terminal opening up for tours of the 95-year-old Sunset Park military depot](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-daily-news-brooklyn-army-terminal-opening-up-for-tours-of-the-95-year-old-sunset-park-military-depot/) - What do Elvis, Prohibition-era bootleggers and dinosaur bones all have in common? They've all spent their fair share of time at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. And now you can, too. For the first time, the city is offering regular tours of the 95-year-old former military depot on the waterfront in Sunset Park.
- [Where Your Presents Came From: The Port of New York & New Jersey](https://turnstiletours.com/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 our loved ones, we probably put considerably less into considering how that item arrived under the tree on Christmas morning (Santa-borne gifts excluded, of course).
- [See the Winners of the 2013 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/see-the-winners-of-the-2013-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - After a month of voting and deliberation, we are proud to announce the winners of the People's Choice and Photographer's Choice Awards in the first annual Brooklyn Navy Yard photography contest. All of the submitted photographs were taken on our four Seasonal Photography Tours in 2013 (the next tour is Saturday, January 18!) – we received over
- [Photographer Randy Duchaine to Judge First Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Tour of 2014](https://turnstiletours.com/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 the work of Robert Clark, Thomas Witte, Amy Fronczkiewicz, and Davina Zagury Feinberg, and each of them offered their keen eye and expertise to judge our
- [WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibit Reveals Brooklyn Navy Yard Stories of WWII](https://turnstiletours.com/warphotography-exhibit-reveals-coast-guard-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 tour will also come an end. Rather than arranging the works of journalistic, artistic, and combat photography by conflict or photographer, in this show they
- [Photographers Capture Brooklyn Navy Yard Industry in Grips of Winter](https://turnstiletours.com/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 dedicated photographers climbed aboard our bus and set about documenting the cold, damp surroundings here. The resulting batch of photos epitomizes this industrial space and
- [See the Selections of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Winter Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/see-the-selections-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-winter-photo-contest/) - A portrait, a pan, and a zoom. BLDG 92 Visiting Artist Randy Duchaine spread the love broadly to three different styles of photography in picking winners for this winter’s seasonal photo contest at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But as far as colors go, Randy was pretty specific with his choices. The winners are comprised almost
- [EcoLogic Solutions Brings Green Cleaning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/ecologic-solutions-brings-green-cleaning-to-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - When it comes to so-called "green" products, we usually expect to pay more for something that doesn’t do the job quite as well as its mainstream counterpart. EcoLogic Solutions proves that this kind of thinking is hogwash. A commercial cleaning products manufacturer based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, they make a full line of commercial-grade, plant-based, wholly biodegradable cleaning products.
- ["The Wind Rises," Japan Falls](https://turnstiletours.com/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. I had the opportunity to see the film during its limited release back in November, a three-day run that made it eligible for an Oscar
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Photographers Ready For Spring](https://turnstiletours.com/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 to announce the photo contest judge for the spring installment. Graphic designer and photographer Theresa Fitzgerald is currently a BLDG 92 Visiting Artist, and for
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Industry, Old and New, Snapped by Spring Photographers](https://turnstiletours.com/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 of the Naval Hospital, to the workings of the active waterfront facilities, to the repurposed 19th-century industrial buildings that dot the yard. Some chose to
- [Fleet Week NYC 2014 Calendar of Events](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-nyc-2014-calendar-of-events/) - Celebrate Fleet Week NYC 2014 with these tours, parades, public programs, and other special events around New York City. Don't forget to check out our special Fleet Week Harbor Tours, as well as our tours at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. All of Turnstile Tours' programs for Fleet Week are marked with [emoji black rightwards arrow] . TUESDAY
- [Thompson Reuters: Benefit Corporations: Organizing for Multiple Stakeholders](https://turnstiletours.com/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 “benefit corporation” statutes, even traditional corporate law is evolving to respond to corporate responsibility expectations of an expanding group of stakeholders, such as customers, employees,
- [DNAinfo: WWII Boat Cruise Shows Off City's Harbor History for Fleet Week](https://turnstiletours.com/dnainfo-new-york-wwii-boat-cruise-shows-off-citys-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 War II. For both Fleet Week and Memorial Day, Classic Harbor Lines and Turnstile Tours will let passengers sail from Chelsea Piers past the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Brooklyn
- [The Perrys of Newport and the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/perrys-newport-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 work while in the hometown of perhaps the most celebrated family in American naval history, the Perrys! We started our trip at the Naval War College
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photo Contest Winners](https://turnstiletours.com/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 busiest shipyard in the world, it was also home to a hospital where wounded sailors could rest and recuperate; once a hive of maritime activity,
- [D-Day Landings and Brooklyn Navy Yard Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/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 end of the war with Germany. World leaders, including President Obama, gathered in Normandy today, joined by veterans of the pivotal battle, who's numbers are shrinking
- [Celebrate Father's Day Weekend with Turnstile Tours!](https://turnstiletours.com/celebrate-fathers-day-weekend-with-turnstile-tours/) - Father's Day is often a time when people gather with their families, maybe have a cookout, and often sit inside watching sports or old war movies on cable with their dads, because that's what dads like to do. Well, we won't be spending any time indoors this weekend, as it's absolutely packed with tours. We have
- [Explainer: The Brooklyn Navy Yard and the National Register of Historic Places](https://turnstiletours.com/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 this mean, exactly? Historic preservation often involves a complicated maze of local, state, and federal legal requirements, so we thought we would explain what the
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Visitors Share Memories and Mementos](https://turnstiletours.com/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 have personal connections to the Yard – they've worked or served there, or had family members who did – but this tour was special for
- [USS Slater Celebrates History of Destroyer Escorts](https://turnstiletours.com/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 usual home in Albany. For the past 12 weeks, the Slater has been a visitor to New York City, laid up for repairs at Staten Island's
- [BLDG 92 Visiting Artist Michael Miller Explores the Seen and Unseen](https://turnstiletours.com/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, and this season's photos will be selected by another BLDG 92 Visiting Artist, painter and visual artist Michael Miller. Michael's appointment as a visiting artist at
- [Summer Submissions to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/summer-submissions-to-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-photography-contest/) - The submissions are in for the summer installment of our Seasonal Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As usual, the summer season offered some great natural beauty amidst the Yard's industrial machinery. Our intrepid group of photographers had four locations to explore – the Naval Hospital campus (currently occupied by feral cats), the FDNY Marine
- [Kicking off Lunch Rush Tours with Street Meat!](https://turnstiletours.com/kicking-off-lunch-rush-tours-with-street-meat/) - Eat Street Meat is our mantra this week as we and our friends at Midtown Lunch co-host a special month-long series of lunch rush food cart tours in Midtown and the Financial District. Break out of your lunch routine and join us for a three-course strolling lunch and we'll have you back at your desk
- [Get Your Sandwich On with Lunch Rush Tours!](https://turnstiletours.com/get-your-sandwich-on-with-lunch-rush-tours/) - Sandwiches are quintessential lunchtime eats and next week we and our friends at Midtown Lunch will be celebrating this classic midday meal as part of our month-long series of lunch rush food cart tours in Midtown and the Financial District. Break out of your lunch routine and join us for a one-hour three-course strolling lunch and we’ll have you back
- [The Port Chicago Disaster: Race and the Navy in World War II](https://turnstiletours.com/the-port-chicago-disaster-race-and-the-navy-in-world-war-ii/) - This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the tragic events of Port Chicago, California, the worst home front disaster of World War II. 320 people were killed, most of them US Navy sailors, in an explosion at a naval munitions loading station, but it was more than just a tragic accident – the events leading up to and
- [Heat Up Your Workday with Lunch Rush Tours!](https://turnstiletours.com/heat-up-your-workday-with-lunch-rush-tours/) - Is your normal lunch routine boring and uninspired? Let us help you spice it up! This week, we and our friends at Midtown Lunch will be celebrating foods that Bring the Heat as part of our month-long series of lunch rush food cart tours in Midtown and the Financial District. Break out of your lunch routine and join us for
- [ROYGBIV: Summer Photographers Uncover Unique Color Palette of Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/roygbiv-summer-photographers-uncover-unique-color-palette-of-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - On Saturday, July 26 we held the third installment of our 2014 series of Seasonal Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As part of this tour series, we give the participants the opportunity to submit their work to our photo contest. The submissions are then judged by a BLDG 92 Visiting Artist, who selects
- [Under the Waves or Under the Torch: The Fate of Brooklyn Navy Yard Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/under-the-waves-or-under-the-torch-the-fate-of-brooklyn-navy-yard-ships/) - From its founding in 1801 until its decommissioning in 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was one of the pre-eminent naval shipbuilding and ship repair yards in the country. More than 100 vessels were launched from the Yard, and literally tens of thousands were serviced by its dry docks and repair shops (including over 5,000 during
- [People and Motion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Photographer Travis Magee](https://turnstiletours.com/people-and-motion-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-photographer-travis-magee/) - When we think of contemporary images of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, its built environment tends to come to mind – cranes, dry docks, and workshops built across the centuries to drive industry forward. But the Yard has always been a "peopled" place – yes, the number of men and women occupying those buildings has fluctuated
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Fall Photo Contest Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-fall-photo-contest-submissions/) - Three weeks ago, we held the final installment of our Seasonal Photography Tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard for 2014. Thank you to all the photographers who submitted their work for our photography contest; as usual, they brought the varied landscapes of the Yard to life. In the coming weeks, three photographs from among these
- [The Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Too Close for Comfort](https://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-bridge-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-too-close-for-comfort/) - On the evening of Friday, November 7, the tanker ship Rainbow Quest collided with the Brooklyn Bridge. The collision was minor, as the ship's light tower just scraped the underside of the roadway. While the accident caused a minor sensation – and quite a few traffic delays, though no discernible damage – close encounters between ships and the Brooklyn
- [Last Chance to Visit Vendy Plaza at East Harlem's La Marqueta Sunday, Nov 23](https://turnstiletours.com/last-chance-to-visit-vendy-plaza-at-east-harlems-la-marqueta-sunday-nov-23/) - This coming Sunday, November 23, is the last weekend to attend Vendy Plaza, at least for now. For the past four Sundays, our friends at the Street Vendor Project and the Vendy Awards have turned East Harlem's historic La Marqueta public market into a gathering place for outdoor food vendors, music, and culture. La Marqueta was originally
- [Winners of the Fall 2014 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/winners-of-the-fall-2014-brooklyn-navy-yard-photography-contest/) - The submissions are in, photographer Travis Magee has made his selections, and we have rounded out the 12 finalists for this year's Brooklyn Navy Yard photo contest. We had a narrow field of photographs this season – interestingly, though the October tour was sold out, it included a number of photographers using large-format cameras, which
- [Vote in the 2014 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/vote-in-the-2014-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - For the second year running, Turnstile Tours and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 led a series of photography tours at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During each season of 2014, we led intrepid photographers on two-hour explorations, cameras in hand, of the Yard's industrial and natural landscapes, from working shipyard cranes to areas of the Yard
- [Edible Brooklyn: Worth the Trip: The Moore Street Market](https://turnstiletours.com/edible-brooklyn-worth-the-trip-the-moore-street-market/) - Edible Brooklyn, Winter 2014 by Betsy Bradley “Welcome to the Island of Fried Pig Parts!” Cindy VandenBosch, eyes twinkling, has just secured a spot at the bustling formica counter that comprises the first stop on her Immigrant Foodways tour of East Williamsburg — a tiny, blue-and-white luncheonette named La Isla Cuchifritos. >> Read More
- [DNAinfo: How Young New York City Businesses Mix Philanthropy and Profit](https://turnstiletours.com/dnainfo-how-young-new-york-city-businesses-mix-philanthropy-and-profit/) - DNAinfo New York, September 4, 2014 by Serena Solomon Turnstile’s philanthropic efforts may appear to be an extra burden to add to the usual hardships of starting a small business — about 50 percent of businesses survive only five years, according to the Small Business Administration — but VandenBosch said “we factored it in from
- [Curbed New York: At 95, The Repurposed Army Terminal Still Impresses](https://turnstiletours.com/curbed-ny-at-95-the-repurposed-army-terminal-still-impresses/) - Four million square feet of indoor space. Thirty-two elevators. Ninety-five years old. Sunset Park's Brooklyn Army Terminal is massive, unusual, and wholly unexpected. Originally built in 1919 to transfer copious quantities of manpower and supplies from land to sea and back again, these days parts of the complex have been converted into office space. But its architecture—with arches everywhere and one awesome atrium, designed by Cass Gilbert of Woolworth Building fame—remains a marvel.
- [Mayor LaGuardia and the War on Sidewalk Christmas Tree Sellers](https://turnstiletours.com/mayor-laguardia-and-the-war-on-sidewalk-christmas-tree-sellers/) - It’s that time of year again – we’ve had our first snow in New York City, Christmas music is playing in every shop and store, and Christmas tree stands line the sidewalks. While most Americans buy their Christmas trees from places like hardware stores, garden centers, churches, or Wal-Mart, New Yorkers rely on a somewhat
- ["We Need Your Skills": Pearl Harbor and the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/we-need-your-skills-pearl-harbor-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard is 5,000 miles from Pearl Harbor, and though the reverberations of the events there on December 7, 1941 were felt across the globe, they hit especially hard on this small stretch of the Brooklyn waterfront. Already 140 years old at the time, the Brooklyn Navy Yard had established itself as one of
- [See the Winners of the 2014 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/see-the-winners-of-the-2014-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard attracts photographers. This 300-acre secure industrial park offers a varied mix of natural and industrial landscapes, historic and innovative buildings, aging elements infused with new energy. While the Yard remains a vibrant and growing industrial park, and it is a popular site for professional film productions and movie shoots, for the past two
- ["Find Something Just For You": TaraFawn Marek Offers Advice for Photographing Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/find-something-just-for-you/) - Having just crowed winners of our 2014 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest, we're ready to dive into the 2015 season – the first tour is thus Sunday, January 25 at 11am, departing from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. • Get tickets for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tour, Sunday, January 25,
- [Extraordinary Journey to Bring Camels to US Began at Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/extraordinary-journey-to-bring-camels-to-us-began-at-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - This past weekend, I was perusing the US Naval Institute website (probably one of my favorite websites), when I came across an article, "Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy." Featured in the article were seafaring oddities like the world's smallest nuclear sub, a concrete-hulled refrigerated barge used to supply sailors with ice cream in World
- [The Fall of Singapore, 1942](https://turnstiletours.com/the-fall-of-singapore-1942/) - February 15 marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic and shocking moments in the Second World War, the fall of the "Gibraltar of the East," Singapore, in 1942. While Singapore is very, very far away from the places that we give tours, we have a special connection to that country, and to the people there
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard in Winter, 2015](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-in-winter-2015/) - Thank you to the small group of photographers who braved the winter weather and joined us for our Winter Photo Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard last month. The submissions are in, and we have a beautiful selection of 21 photographs from across the Yard – the haunting hospital campus draped in snow, the piers and
- [BLDG 92 & Brooklyn Historical Society: Brooklyn Navy Yard STEM and Sustainability Research](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-stem-and-sustainability-research-bldg-92-brooklyn-historical-society/) - Research and content development for STEM-based K–12 programs // 2014 Turnstile was commissioned by the Brooklyn Historical Society (now known as the Center for Brooklyn History at the Brooklyn Public Library) and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 to create a research document about STEM and sustainability-related topics, both historical and contemporary, at
- [New York Times: Next Phase of Renovation to Begin at a Vast Military Remnant in Brooklyn](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-times-next-phase-of-renovation-to-begin-at-a-vast-military-remnant-in-brooklyn/) - “Drive slow — 8 M.P.H.,” the signs say along the South Brooklyn waterfront, between 59th and 63rd Streets. Nothing exceptional about them, except that they are posted on the sixth floor.
- [News 4 New York: Pearl Harbor Day](https://turnstiletours.com/news-4-new-york-pearl-harbor-day/) - “We’re especially proud of the fact that the Brooklyn Navy Yard built the USS Arizona, which was sunk on December 7, 1941, with the loss of 1,177 sailors aboard. We also built the USS Missouri, which is where the peace treaty that ended World War II was signed, so we have the bookends of the war that were built here at the Navy Yard.”
- [The Brooklyn Reader: Take a Tour of the Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-reader-take-a-tour-of-the-navy-yard/) - The Brooklyn Reader, January 27, 2015 by C. Zawadi Morris The Brooklyn Reader took a photo tour of the facility with Turnstile Tours, which offers a variety of tours at the Navy Yard, to learn more about this re-developing historical landmark, located right in our backyard. First stop: Building 92 (BLDG 92). BLDG 92 is, for
- [Atlas Obscura: Ruins and Revitalization at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/atlas-obscura-ruins-and-revitalization-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Earlier this month, the New York Obscura Society embarked on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to explore the rich history of the vast 300-acre property. Led by Andrew Gustafson of Turnstile Tours, the tour chronicled the Yard's evolution, which originally served as a shipyard from 1776 to 1965 and is now an industrial park with thriving manufacturing and commercial activity where over 200 businesses employ more than 5,000 people.
- [Inside Industry: Space Suit Maker Final Frontier Design at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/visit-space-suit-maker-final-frontier-design-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-feb-27/) - Inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the fifth floor of the cavernous Building 280, sits a small studio with very large ambitions. Inside you will find bolts of high-tech fabrics, spools of nylon chord, helmets and gloves of all varieties, and a small team of designers. This is the home of Final Frontier Design, a company that designs and
- [Snowy Streets of the Navy Yard: Winter Photography Tour Finalists](https://turnstiletours.com/streets-of-the-navy-yard-winter-photography-finalists/) - This winter has not been kind to the streets of New York. Since the beginning of the year, snow has been a permanent fixture, whether in fluffy blankets covering everything, or pushed aside into growing snowbanks that preserve the wintry landscape between storms. Those snowbanks don't just hold snow, however; garbage bags get lost in there,
- [Digital Technology Augments Craftsmanship at Scott Jordan Furniture](https://turnstiletours.com/digital-technology-augments-craftsmanship-at-scott-jordan-furniture/) - One of the hallmarks of the companies that we feature on our Making It In NYC tour series at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is that they wed traditional crafts with advanced technology to create unique, innovative, and competitive products. Scott Jordan Furniture is a perfect example of this union. Founded in 1980, the company has had
- [Natacha Mankowski Brings Out What Goes On Inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/natacha-mankowski-brings-out-what-goes-on-inside-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Each season, we offer a special opportunity for photographers to explore the Brooklyn Navy Yard with us. Our next Seasonal Photography Tour is taking place this Sunday, April 19 at 11am, departing from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, and visiting sites including the Naval Hospital Campus, one of the Yard's working dry docks,
- [Cinnamon Snail Debuts Cookbook, Rolls Out Food Truck Tonight at Powerhouse Arena](https://turnstiletours.com/cinnamon-snail-debuts-cookbook-rolls-out-food-truck-tonight-at-powerhouse-arena/) - Just over two months ago, Adam Sobel of The Cinnamon Snail – one of New York City's most popular food trucks and the reigning Vendy Cup champion – made the shocking announcement that they would be calling it quits from the streets of New York. Cinnamon Snail had won four Vendy Awards for their big, bold, vegan flavors,
- [Explore Traditional Letterpress Printing at Woodside Press on an Inside Industry Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/explore-traditional-letterpress-printing-at-woodside-press-on-an-inside-industry-tour/) - Woodside Press is one of our featured Brooklyn Navy Yard tenants on our Making It In NYC: Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard tour series. This past winter, we visited the letterpress printshop to learn about their company and the unique services they offer. Woodside was founded back in 1993 by Andy Birsh in Woodside, Queens (hence the
- [Fleet Week Ships Carry Strong NYC Connections](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-ships-carry-strong-nyc-connections/) - On Wednesday, May 20, a small flotilla of US Navy and Coast Guard ships will steam under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to mark the beginning of a week-long, city-wide celebration of our country's Sea Services. The ships will be coming from different commands and homeports, but many of them have strong historic and contemporary connections
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photography Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-spring-photography-submissions/) - I have nothing but sympathy for Natacha Mankowski, this season's judge of our Seasonal Photography Tour submissions. I say that because we had a remarkable day last month for the tour – not only was the weather spectacular, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard was also visited by a some very impressive ships and some very
- [Press Release: Turnstile Tours Honored as ‘Best for Community’, Creating Most Overall Positive Community Impact](https://turnstiletours.com/turnstile-tours-honored-as-best-for-community-creating-most-overall-positive-community-impact/) - Joins 113 Companies From 21 Countries and 46 Industries to Set Gold Standard and Challenge All Businesses to Measure and Manage Impact236 Companies Honored as ‘Best for the World’, Best for the Environment’, and ‘Best for Workers’ April 14, 2015 -- Today, Turnstile Tours was recognized for creating the most positive overall community impact by the nonprofit
- [Gothamist: Behind The Scenes At The Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/gothamist-behind-the-scenes-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - For the past seven years, the staff at Turnstile Tours has been offering two-hour bus and bicycle tours of the typically off-limits Brooklyn Navy Yard, a sprawling 300-acre property that includes a whole lot more than woodworking studios and the Brooklyn Grange. For starters, there's an 1856 eagle-topped monument tucked away there, commemorating the Battle of the Barrier Forts, an assault led by the U.S. Navy against Qing Dynasty citadels on China's Pearl River, during the Second Opium War. Who could forget!
- [Press Release: Turnstile Tours & Classic Harbor Line Launch World War II Harbor History Tours in Honor of Fleet Week and Memorial Day](https://turnstiletours.com/press-release-turnstile-tours-classic-harbor-line-launch-world-war-ii-harbor-history-tours-in-honor-of-fleet-week-and-memorial-day/) - "Fighting Ships & Working Waterfronts" Tour Will Feature Historic Highlights and Modern Navy, Coast Guard Ships, May 22-25 Preview Cruise for Press and Fleet Week Servicemembers, Wednesday, May 20, 6:30pm May 15, 2015, New York, NY -- For the second consecutive year, Turnstile Tours and Classic Harbor Line are leading a special series of tours
- [Carrier Catapult Tests Once a Common Sight at Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/carrier-catapult-tests-once-a-common-sight-at-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Last month, the US Navy began testing of its new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, aboard the first ship that will deploy the system, the carrier USS Gerald Ford, currently under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. EMALS is the latest innovation in aircraft carrier catapult systems, which are designed to assist aircraft
- [From the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Mars: Honeybee Robotics](https://turnstiletours.com/from-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-to-mars-honeybee-robotics/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard has a long tradition of exploration. For 165 years, the Yard built, outfitted, and repaired ships that traveled millions of miles around the world, including building the first US Navy ship to circumnavigate the globe (USS Vincennes, 1826-30), dispatching the groundbreaking US Exploring Expedition (1838-42), and receiving the Navy's first nuclear
- [Robin Michals Documents Change Along Brooklyn's Waterfront](https://turnstiletours.com/robin-michal-documents-change-along-brooklyns-waterfront/) - Each season, we offer a special opportunity for photographers to explore the Brooklyn Navy Yard with us. Our next Seasonal Photography Tour is taking place this Saturday, July 18 at 11am, departing from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, and visiting sites including the Naval Hospital Campus, one of the Yard’s working dry docks, and
- [Cranes and Cabanas: Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Finalists, Spring 2015](https://turnstiletours.com/cranes-and-cabanas-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-finalists-spring-2015/) - We are already well into summer – and the Summer Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is this Saturday! – but we wanted to share with you the finalists from our spring tour, selected by BLDG 92 Visiting Artist Natacha Mankowski. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all the photographers who submitted
- [Press Release: Turnstile Tours and Classic Harbor Line launch new tour series, Brooklyn Waterfront: Past & Present](https://turnstiletours.com/press-release-turnstile-tours-and-classic-harbor-line-launch-new-tour-series-brooklyn-waterfront-past-present/) - Turnstile Tours and Classic Harbor Line launch new tour series, Brooklyn Waterfront: Past & Present 2-hour cruises of Brooklyn waterfront depart Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5 every Saturday at 11am, August 8 – October 10 Each tour to feature expert speakers, including representatives from Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, New York Environment Report, New York Aquarium July 15,
- [Highlights of the Harbor: Shipyards](https://turnstiletours.com/highlights-of-the-harbor-shipyards/) - For more than 150 years, shipbuilding was a pre-eminent industry in New York City. Shipyards building clipper ships, steamboats, and naval frigates once engulfed the shoreline of Lower Manhattan in the early 19th century, bearing names like Brown, Bergh, Westervelt, and Webb, eventually spilling onto the Brooklyn side to form a massive shipbuilding complex on the
- [New York Environment Report's Emily Manley Joins Brooklyn Waterfront Tour August 15](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-environment-reports-emily-manley-joins-brooklyn-waterfront-tour-august-15/) - For each of our Brooklyn Waterfront, Past & Present Tours, our guides will be joined by different guest speakers who have worked in some capacity along the New York City waterfront, sharing their perspectives on topics ranging from industry and manufacturing to resiliency planning to marine ecology. For our tour on Saturday, August 15, our guest
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Summer Photography Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-summer-photography-submissions/) - The forecast called for rain on July 18, and more than half of the participants in the tour decided that they would rather take a photography tour of the Navy Yard on another day. Luckily, by 11:05 or so, the weather broke, and those left standing had a spectacular tableau of clouds and rain puddles
- [Noah Chesnin of NY Aquarium Joins Brooklyn Waterfront Tour August 22](https://turnstiletours.com/noah-chesnin-of-ny-aquarium-joins-brooklyn-waterfront-tour-august-22/) - We are now three weeks in to our Brooklyn Waterfront Past & Present Tour series, and our guest speakers so far have been spectacular. Nate Kensinger was able to recall how almost every inch of the Brooklyn, Greenpoint, and Newtown Creek waterfronts have changed over the 10 years that he has been photographing, filming, and
- [From Perry To MacArthur: Flag Links Historic US Visits to Japan, in Peace and War](https://turnstiletours.com/from-perry-to-macarthur-flag-links-historic-us-visits-to-japan/) - September 2 marks the 70th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War, when Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945. While we are marking the event today, the actual anniversary took place at around 8pm on September 1, Eastern Standard Time. The largest celebration of the event in the
- [Brooklyn Greenway Initiative's Naval Cemetery Landscape](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-greenway-initiatives-naval-cemetery-landscape/) - With all the major development projects underway at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (the Green Manufacturing Center, Wegman's, Building 77, Steiner Studios expansion – the list goes on ...), it is easy to forget a very exciting, if comparatively modest, project in a quiet corner of the Yard. For the last several years, the Brooklyn Greenway
- [Another Successful and Satisfying Vendy Awards](https://turnstiletours.com/another-successful-and-satisfying-vendy-awards/) - Here's a video capturing the great time had by all at this year's Vendy Awards this past Saturday. 2015 NYC Vendy Awards Amazingly, the rain held off on Saturday as food lovers and street vendors congregated on Governor's Island for the 11th annual Vendy Awards. Every year, the Street Vendor Project brings together the best
- [Turnstile's Hockey Guide to NYC: Watching](https://turnstiletours.com/turnstiles-hockey-guide-to-nyc/) - Yesterday marked the beginning of the new NHL season, so we have put together a season preview that not only gives you a short run-down on the local top-tier teams (Rangers, Islanders, Devils), but also the many opportunities to watch minor league and college hockey within a short distance of the city, tips on how to get
- [Longtime Yard Photographer John Bartelstone to Judge Fall Photo Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/longtime-yard-photographer-john-bartelstone-to-judge-fall-photo-tour/) - Each season, we offer a special opportunity for photographers to explore the Brooklyn Navy Yard with us. Our next Seasonal Photography Tour is taking place this Saturday, October 10 at 11am, departing from BLDG 92. For this special tour, we'll be exploring the industrial and maritime features of the waterfront at the Yard, including close-up views of the many ships
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Summer Photography Tour Finalists](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-summer-photography-tour-finalists/) - This summer, a small but dedicated crew of photographers braved the July showers to photograph the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and they shared their work with us. From those photos, BLDG 92 Visiting Artist Robin Michals selected her three favorites, which will be displayed in BLDG 92 in 2016. Robin's work has been focused around the
- [Isabelle Garbani's "Post-War Blues" Brightens Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/isabelle-garbanis-post-war-blues-brightens-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - If you walk the length of the atrium of the Brooklyn Army Terminal's Building B during this weekend's Open House New York, you will encounter a remarkable piece of art – Isabelle Garbani's "Post-War Blues." Made up of more than 5,000 hand-crocheted and knitted flowers, the installation cascades from the train car parked on the
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Fall Photography Contest Submissions](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-fall-photography-contest-submissions/) - Just over a week ago, we had our final installment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tour for 2015. Thank you to the five participants who sent in their photos, and to the 20 or so people who came out with thus to explore the working waterfront areas of the Yard. As we do
- [Makansutra:  Eating In New York](https://turnstiletours.com/makansutra-eating-in-new-york/) - Makansutra, September 20, 2015 by KF Seetoh I was taken on a food and heritage spin around Brooklyn, “to places where tourist would look out of place” ironically by Cindy Vandenbosch, founder of Turnstile Tours (www.turnstiletours.com), and her husband Andrew Gustafson, offering a range of tours and have 7 guides under their fold specialising in
- [Essex Street Market: A Look Back at Opening Day, 1940](https://turnstiletours.com/essex-street-market-a-look-back-at-opening-day/) - The Essex Street Market opened for business on the morning of January 9, 1940 in what the New York Times described as, “one of the shortest dedication ceremonies on record.” Beckoned by the celebratory music of the Parks Department band, a crowd of over 3,500 residents gathered on this blustery winter morning out front of
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Fall Photo Finalists Capture NYC's Working Waterfront](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-fall-photo-finalists-capture-nycs-working-waterfront/) - As winter approaches, it means another year of Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tours is in the books, and we're happy to announce the final set of three finalists in our annual photo contest, chosen from the submissions from our fall tour earlier this month. These three will join the winter, spring, and summer selections in a gallery
- [Fishmongers of the Essex Street Market](https://turnstiletours.com/fishmongers-of-the-essex-street-market/) - Whether you’re looking for salmon, tilapia, porgy, or mussels, fishmongers at the Essex Street Market have got you covered. Step inside the market today and you find two stalls selling fish, Rainbo Fish and New Star Fish Market, both of which are family-owned and operated with roots in the market going back decades. And like
- [Thanksgiving Shopping at the Essex Street Market](https://turnstiletours.com/thanksgiving-shopping-at-the-essex-street-market/) - In preparation for Thanksgiving, we've put together a shopping guide so you can find unique, delicious, and affordable items right in the Lower East Side's Essex Street Market. But when it comes to market shopping guides, we have big shoes to fill. Starting in 1934, WNYC began hosting a daily five-minute segment at 8:25 a.m.,
- [Vote in the 2015 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/vote-in-the-2015-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - Earlier this year, we completed our third series of special photography tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and once again, the Yard proved to be a compelling and multi-faceted tapestry for photographers in all four seasons. These two-hour explorations were led in partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, but we also had help
- [Chocolate & Cheese: Launching Businesses at the Essex Street Market](https://turnstiletours.com/chocolate-cheese-launching-businesses-at-the-essex-street-market/) - Owned and operated by the city, the Essex Street Market provides a diverse array of fresh, high-quality, and affordable food options to local residents, as well as opportunities for new food entrepreneurs to set up shop with more reasonable rents than are usually found in New York City. In this week's post, we profile two women who grew their businesses
- [Bakeries at New York's Public Markets: A Bread and Butter Industry for the City](https://turnstiletours.com/bakeries-at-new-yorks-public-markets-a-butter-and-bread-industry-for-the-city/) - In this two-part blog series, we’ll be highlighting the stories behind baking businesses - wholesale and retail, profit and nonprofit - that are located inside New York’s public markets and how each contributes to the culinary and manufacturing landscapes of the city. We begin by featuring the stories behind Davidovich Bakery and Pain D’Avignon, two businesses with
- [Wall Street Journal: Brooklyn ‘Annex’ to Bring Back Manufacturing](https://turnstiletours.com/wall-street-journal-brooklyn-annex-to-bring-back-manufacturing/) - During World War II, the Administration Building at the Brooklyn Army Terminal directed a hive of activity. Supply depots and barracks down the East Coast were all controlled by staff in the Sunset Park neighborhood. “You had literally an army of people managing all the soldiers passing through every supply depot and every camp within a couple hundred miles of New York City,” said Andrew Gustafson, vice president of Turnstile Tours.
- [Gothamist: Deep Inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/gothamist-deep-inside-the-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - The federal government sold the terminal to New York City in 1981, and a few years later, a wholesale renovation began. It's come a long way since then—notable tenants now include such diverse neighbors as the NYPD's intelligence division, the chocolatier Jacques Torres, the New York City Bioscience initiative center and the Museum of Natural History.
- [Well Made, Well Done: Inside Industry with Bien Hecho](https://turnstiletours.com/well-made-well-done-inside-industry-with-bien-hecho/) - We recently had the opportunity to visit a unique business in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that will be a featured tenant on our Inside Industry Tour series, Bien Hecho, a woodworking outfit that specializes in making furniture, millwork, cabinetry, and other custom carpentry from reclaimed and sustainably-sourced wood. Founder John Randall sat down with us to talk about their
- [Presidential Visits to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Part II](https://turnstiletours.com/presidential-visits-to-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-part-ii/) - Three years ago, in celebration of Presidents Day, we wrote about the handful of times that sitting US presidents had paid visits to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At that time, we only mentioned two such visits – by William Howard Taft, once as president-elect on November 13, 1908, and as soon-to-be-ousted-president on October 30, 1912, and
- [Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2015-brooklyn-navy-yard-photography-contest/) - For the last three years, we have had the honor and pleasure to see the Brooklyn Navy Yard change through the eyes of hundreds of very, very talented photographers. Our Seasonal Photography Tour participants have chronicled this amazing landscape from season to season, from year to year, creating an incredible record of the Yard at this
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Winter Photo Submissions, 2016](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-winter-photo-submissions-2016/) - Last month, we held our first installment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tour for 2016. We had a small but dedicated group of photographers on what turned out to be a stunning day – and the photos clearly show that. Three of these photos will be selected by this season's judge, Alyssa Fridgen.
- [Homing Pigeons Return to Brooklyn Navy Yard After 115-Year Absence with "Fly By Night"](https://turnstiletours.com/homing-pigeons-return-to-brooklyn-navy-yard-after-115-year-absence-with-fly-by-night/) - After a hiatus of 115 years, a vast squadron of homing pigeons has returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This weekend marks the opening of Fly By Night, an ambitious performance piece by artist Duke Riley and produced by Creative Time. On the deck of the decommissioned naval vessel Baylander, Riley and his team have
- [Naval Cemetery Landscape Opens to Public at Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/naval-cemetery-landscape-opens-to-public-at-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Our friends at the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI) achieved a great milestone Friday when they officially opened the Naval Cemetery Landscape at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The beautifully designed 1.7-acre green space is publicly accessible along the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, a landscaped bicycle and pedestrian path that, when completed, will run 27 miles from Greenpoint to Jamaica Bay.
- [Curbed New York: Revamped Brooklyn Navy Yard Begins Its Slow Unfurling](https://turnstiletours.com/curbed-new-york-revamped-brooklyn-navy-yard-begins-its-slow-unfurling/) - For many years, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been a forbidding presence along the East River waterfront, hidden from the surrounding neighborhood behind walls and fences, with warning signs along its perimeter ... This month, however, several new projects are cracking open these barriers and granting the public access to parts of the Navy Yard that have been unseen for decades.
- [Winter Photo Contest Winners](https://turnstiletours.com/winter-photo-contest-winners/) - We're happy to announce our first batch of winners for our annual Brooklyn Navy Yard photography contest. Participants joined our Seasonal Photography Tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 30, and you can see the full set of submissions here. Alyssa Fridgen, who spent the past several months working with BLDG 92 as a
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photo Submissions, 2016](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-spring-photo-submissions-2016/) - The submissions are in from our spring photography tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This season's finalists will be selected by C'naan Hamburger, one the 2016 BLDG 92 Visiting Artists. C'naan was kind enough to chat with us a bit about her work and what drew her to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. "I liked the
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Spring Photo Finalists, 2016](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-spring-photo-finalists-2016/) - Thanks to the insights from BLDG 92 visiting artist C'naan Hamburger, we have three more finalists for our Brooklyn Navy Yard photography contest. These three photos were selected from a battery of 31 submitted from our spring photography tour back in April. After the winter submissions, we're now halfway to our goal of 12 finalist
- [Curbed: Developers Compete to Shape the Future of Brooklyn's Sunset Park](https://turnstiletours.com/curbed-developers-compete-to-shape-the-future-of-brooklyns-sunset-park/) - "The introduction of the shipping container in the late 1950s really dramatically transformed the industry," said Andrew Gustafson, who leads historical tours of the Brooklyn Army Terminal for his company, Turnstile Tours. "Basically, these enormous facilities like the Bush Terminal and the Brooklyn Army Terminal became totally obsolete for their original use. … And then you also have the decline of manufacturing spaces," said Gustafson.
- [Food Manufacturing Hub Opens at Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/food-manufacturing-hub-opens-at-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Masaki and Yukimi Momose have been making their Japanese-style salad dressings for more than three years, but now, they are finally making it in a space they can call their own. Their company, MOMO Dressing, is the first tenant in the Brooklyn Army Terminal's Annex, a former administration building for the military complex that is now
- [Press Release: Turnstile Tours Launches New Weekly Tour of Essex Street Market Sept. 25](https://turnstiletours.com/press-release-turnstile-tours-launches-new-tour-essex-street-market-sept-25/) - Turnstile Tours & Essex Street Market Vendors Association launch weekly 90-minute tasting tours of the market, every Sunday beginning September 25 Tours include 5–7 tastings and opportunities to meet the community of vendors and learn about the rich history of this Lower East Side institution September 15, 2016, New York, NY -- Weekly guided tours
- [Press Release: Brooklyn Navy Yard Launches Fall 2016 Inside Industry Tour Series](https://turnstiletours.com/press-release-brooklyn-navy-yard-launches-fall-2016-inside-industry-tour-series/) - Guided Tour Series Offers Insider’s View of Factories, Workshops, and Tech Hubs (Brooklyn, NY) -- Have you ever wondered what’s made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard? Now you can find out by joining special insider tours of some of the 330 businesses that call the thriving industrial park home. The tours will include visits to
- [Guide to Open House New York 2016](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-open-house-new-york-2016/) - Open House New York Weekend is always one of our favorite times of year, when hundreds of sites open their doors to the public on October 15 and 16. We don't get to see as much as we'd like, however, as we're almost always working – many of our partner sites are also very active
- [Fall 2016: Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/fall-2016-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - Last week we held our final Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tour of 2016 (don't worry if you missed it – our next one will be on January 22). Stay tuned because after we receive the last three finalist photos from this round, we'll be unveiling the online voting for the year-end People's Choice Award,
- [Summer 2016: Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/summer-2016-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - Thanks to all the photographers who joined our summer installment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Tour. This season, the winning photographs will be selected by an artist based in the Yard, Tatiana Arocha. Over the course of the summer, we got to know Tatiana and her work well, as she led a series of workshops
- [Vote in the 2016 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/vote-2016-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - This is year four of our photography tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and we need your help to select the best photo of the Yard of 2016. All of these photos were taken across four two-hour explorations we led in partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. We received 118 submissions from 22
- [Market Value: How Public Markets Drive the Baking Industry Forward](https://turnstiletours.com/market-talk-taste-event-nycs-baking-industry/) - An Essex Street Market "Talk & Taste" event about the baking industry in New York City Baking is literally our bread and butter in New York City making up the majority of food manufacturing businesses within the five boroughs. On December 8th, 2016 at the Essex Street Market, members of the public joined us for a taste of
- [The Lo-Down: Essex Street Market Debuts Historical Mural](https://turnstiletours.com/the-lo-down/) - The Lo-Down, January 30, 2017 by Ed Litvak If you visited the Essex Street Market this past weekend, you probably noticed this new historical mural celebrating the legacy of the 77-year-old public facility. The 20-foot display presents a timeline from 1900 through the opening of the market by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1940, up to
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: John Barry](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-who-made-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-john-barry/) - John Barry (1745–1803) Born in Ireland's southeast County Wexford, John Barry grew up with an abiding hatred for the English. When he was 12, his Catholic family was dispossessed of their land by an English landlord, forcing them to live with family nearby and beginning a period of immense hardship for the family. Barry began apprenticing
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Henry Eckford](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-henry-eckford/) - Henry Eckford (1775-1832) The long, arduous, and risky journey to America has a way of bringing to our shores the most ambitious, talented, and daring people; Henry Eckford was certainly one of those. Born and raised in the Scottish town of Kilwinning, located not far from the famous shipbuilding center along the Firth of Clyde,
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: John Ericsson](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-john-ericsson/) - John Ericsson (1803–1889) John Ericsson was perhaps more of an engineer than any man who ever lived. Of his 85 years on this earth, 75 of them were spent as an engineer, and he worked in almost every conceivable field of engineering a person could in the 19th century, spanning the apogee of the Industrial
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Peter Asserson](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-peter-asserson/) - Peter Christian Asserson (1839–1906) The Brooklyn Navy Yard has always adapted to change. Over its first 165 years, rapid changes in naval ship designs forced the adoption of new shipbuilding technologies, materials, and techniques, and the construction of new facilities. No single person did more to shepherd the Yard through these transitions than Peter Christian
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: James Diani](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-james-diani/) - James Diani (c.1833–1908) So far in this series, we have profiled commodores, admirals, and captains of industry. But the real history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is the massive collective labor of thousands of individuals coming together to accomplish extraordinary things. The Navy Yard provided opportunities for newcomers to this country to get decent-paying jobs and
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Stanislaw Kozikowski](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-stanislaw-kozikowski/) - Stanislaw Kozikowski (1895–1967) Stan Kozikowski came to fame as a young man in the First World War, but spent much of his life as an unheralded machinist in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was born in Poland – then part of the Russian Empire – in 1895 (according to his naturalization record; other records cite 1894 and
- [Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Baldev Duggal](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrants-made-brooklyn-navy-yard-great-baldev-duggal/) - Baldev Duggal (1937–2016) So far in this series, all of the individuals we have profiled worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when it was still a naval shipyard. But Baldev Duggal was an individual who played an instrumental role in the long process of transforming the Yard from a dilapidated naval facility into a thriving industrial
- [Food for Good: How Non-Profits Are Creating Change Through Food](https://turnstiletours.com/food-for-good-how-non-profits-are-creating-change-through-food/) - An Essex Street Market "Talk & Taste" event about food-based social enterprise Many organizations are recognizing the value of entrepreneurship and culinary arts to inspire young people, build their skills, and equip them for challenges ahead. At this Talk & Taste event, offered in partnership with the Essex Street Market Vendors Association, we brought together three organizations
- [The Great War and NYC: Prospect Park](https://turnstiletours.com/the-great-war-and-nyc-prospect-park/) - War has played an integral part in the history of Prospect Park. In August 1776, the future site of the Park was a battleground, as American troops tried to stop the British advance in the epochal Battle of Brooklyn. Originally conceived in 1861, the Civil War intervened; this turned out to be a blessing, as the pause
- [The Many Names of the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/many-names-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Some of the subjects we frequently have to address on our tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard are: where is it? and what is the official name? So let's start with the first question. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is located on the banks of the Wallabout Bay, a bend in the East River located opposite Manhattan's Corlears
- [The Great War and NYC: Street Vendors and Public Markets](https://turnstiletours.com/great-war-nyc-street-vendors-public-markets/) - New York City was far removed from the battlefields, occupied territories, and blockaded countries locked in the struggle of the First World War. While many of those places experienced food rationing, shortages, even deadly famines, the US was largely spared these deprivations. Nevertheless, the war was extremely disruptive to the food system of the nation
- [Guide to Fleet Week New York 2017 Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-to-fleet-week-nyc-2017-ships/) - This year during Fleet Week New York, we will be visited by more than a dozen ships and units from the US Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Military Sealift Command, and Royal Canadian Navy that will be berthed at locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Here's a brief guide to some of the
- [Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Tour of Navy Yard, old & new, ties together three 19th-century Brooklyn icons](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-daily-eagle-tour-navy-yard-old-new-ties-together-three-19th-century-brooklyn-icons/) - Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 23, 2017 by Paula Katinas Andrew Sichenze, a lawyer from Bay Ridge, has many fond memories of the first time he visited the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a fresh-faced 12-year-old boy back in 1944. It was during World War II and young Sichenze had come to the Navy Yard to witness the christening
- [The Bridge: The Brooklyn Tour Guides Who Know All the Secrets](https://turnstiletours.com/bridge-brooklyn-tour-guides-know-secrets/) - The Bridge, July 12, 2017 by Emily Nonko As Brooklyn’s tourism industry heats up, double-decker buses have crossed the river in herds, whirling visitors around Grand Army Plaza and other dramatic sights. But to paraphrase the song from Hamilton, what’d they miss? Lots, according to Brooklyn-based Turnstile Tours, which has made a name for itself with a completely different approach: depth. On a Turnstile
- [Harper's Bazaar Spain: Esto es lo que se come ahora en las calles de Nueva York](https://turnstiletours.com/harpers-bazaar-spain-esto-es-lo-que-se-come-ahora-en-las-calles-de-nueva-york/) - Harper's Bazaar Spain, May 4, 2017 by Sergio Cabrera Las calles del Midtown de Nueva York se encuentran siempre en constante ebullición. En el que bien podríamos considerar epicentro del planeta, nunca se duerme. Y mucho menos ahora, cuando el lugar más turístico por excelencia se reivindica como uno de los rincones con más novedades que
- [French Morning: Vignoble-rooftop, distillerie, entrepôts: visitez le Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/french-morning-vignoble-rooftop-distillerie-entrepots-visitez-le-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - French Morning, July 5, 2017 by Nadège Fougeras Pour cette expérience, vous allez devoir être organisés. Car vous devrez vous inscrire à une visite. Le Brooklyn Navy Yard, vous le voyez sur toutes les cartes, mais y êtes-vous déjà allés ? C’est cette friche industrielle immense au nord du pont de Manhattan, dans laquelle ont été
- [Traveller Australia: Food Truckin' in the Big Apple](https://turnstiletours.com/traveller-australia-new-york-food-cart-tour-food-truckin-big-apple/) - "What do you think was the first food sold on the streets of New York?" asks Doug, our enthusiastic guide from Turnstile Tours. Our group stands in stony silence with furrowed brows. Everyone else is from an 18-35s Contiki tour and some of them haven't been to bed yet after last night's revelry. It's a little early for quizzes.
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Summer Photography Contest Judge: Painter Jeff Britton](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-summer-photography-contest-judge-painter-jeff-britton/) - On our Brooklyn Navy Yard Photography Tours, we're always encouraging people to look for the unexpected. Even on streets we've walked down a thousand times, there may be something new, or something very old you never noticed before. Walking down the halls of the enormous Building 3, constructed in 1917 and one of the Yard's
- [Chicago Tribune: Borough with a view: Brooklyn beckons with new hotels, other perks](https://turnstiletours.com/chicago-tribune-borough-with-a-view-brooklyn-beckons-with-new-hotels-other-perks/) - Chicago Tribune, November 6, 2017 by Elaine Glusac The Brooklyn Navy Yard, an expansive, 300-acre patch of waterfront established in 1801 and the birthplace of the USS Maine, now serves as an incubator for startups. We visited the center of green entrepreneurship, hosting everything from a film studio to an eco-manufacturing center and artist studios,
- [Explore the World of Street Vending at Museum at Eldridge Street, Nov 29](https://turnstiletours.com/explore-world-street-vending-museum-eldridge-st-nov-29/) - Join us on Nov. 29 at the Museum at Eldridge Street when Cindy VandenBosch will be moderating a conversation about street vending, past and present, covering the industry's deep roots on the Lower East Side, hearing from some of today's most popular sidewalk chefs, and learning about the the many other players that support this industry. Panelists will
- [Hopkins Views from the Hill: Hopkins' Network at Work](https://turnstiletours.com/hopkins-views-hill-hopkins-network-work/) - Hopkins Views from the Hill, Fall 2017 by Judy Sirota Rosenthal and Leo Sorrel In July 2017, Andrew Gustafson hosted a student from his high school alma mater, New Haven's Hopkins School, as part of the school's Job Shadow Program. Senior Andrew Roberge joined us checking in with our street vendor partners in Midtown, working
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Fall Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-fall-photo-contest/) - For our penultimate Brooklyn Navy Yard Seasonal Photography Tour of 2017, we asked another Yard-based artist to make selections for the year-end finalists. Nick Golebiewski is a visual artist who makes large-scale gouache paintings – a type of opaque watercolor – of New York cityscapes. His “Nick’s Lunchbox Service” is daily drawing series in which he
- [PBS: Samantha Brown's Places to Love: Brooklyn](https://turnstiletours.com/pbs-samantha-browns-places-love-brooklyn/) - We were so proud to have the Brooklyn Navy Yard featured in Episode 3 of the new PBS travel program Samantha Brown's Places to Love, which explored unique sites around town including our friends at Prospect Park, Kings County Distillery, and the Gowanus Canal. Jump to 5:40 to see the segment on the Navy Yard.
- [New York Times: After the Launching (and Scrapping) of Navy Ships, a New Mission](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-times-launching-scrapping-navy-ships-new-mission/) - “One of the great things about the redevelopment of the Navy yards is that there’s been so much preservation of the historic character,” said Andrew Gustafson, who has led tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard since 2010. “The history’s a selling point. It makes the place unique and attractive.”
- [Escape: New York City Bus Tours: See a Different Side of the Big Apple](https://turnstiletours.com/escape-new-york-city-bus-tours-see-different-side-big-apple/) - Escape, January 16, 2018 by Rob McFarland Turnstile has a diverse range of tours but one of its most interesting is an exploration of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. For 165 years, this vast 120ha site south of Williamsburg was a busy naval shipyard, responsible for the construction of battleships such as the USS Arizona plus the repair of
- [PIX11 News: History of Food Carts and Vendors in NYC is Celebrated](https://turnstiletours.com/pix11-news-history-food-carts-vendors-nyc-celebrated/) - Greg Mocker of PIX 11 News not only attended our panel discussion at the Museum at Eldridge Street, which included panelists from the Street Vendor Project, 800BuyCart, Cinnamon Snail, Veronica's Kitchen, and moderated by our own Cindy VandenBosch, he also made sure that he tried some street food from Midtown's Royal Halal, one of our favorites.
- [Gabs: Supporting local small businesses in New York](https://turnstiletours.com/gabs-supporting-local-small-businesses-in-new-york/) - Gabs Photography, January 11, 2018 by Gabriela Hengeveld When we were invited to visit New York for a story about the Bronx we got in touch with Turnstile Tours an organization providing tours to visit and eat at different Food Trucks. The organization found a way of entertaining tourist whilst at the same time having
- [The Brooklyn Navy Yard and the US Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934](https://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-navy-yard-and-the-us-occupation-of-haiti-1915-1934/) - As we reflect on the deeper meaning and troubling implication of the US president describing certain foreign countries as “shitholes,” it has also opened an opportunity to think critically about how and why these places became impoverished. Often, European and American imperial intervention – or outright exploitation – played a significant role. While we celebrate the
- [Vote in the 2017 Brooklyn Navy Yard Photo Contest](https://turnstiletours.com/vote-in-the-2017-brooklyn-navy-yard-photo-contest/) - Over the course of five years of leading our photography tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we have received well over 500 photographs from 118 photographers submitted to our photo contest. For year five, we need your help to select the best photo of the Yard of 2017. All of these photos were taken across four two-hour explorations
- [Visiting the Ships of the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/visiting-ships-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Since we began working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard nearly ten years ago, the Yard has become a huge part of our lives and our identity, both as a company and as individuals. We see connections to its past and present nearly everywhere we go, and we are learning new things about it every day.
- [Made In NYC 15th Anniversary Party, May 3](https://turnstiletours.com/made-nyc-15th-anniversary-party/) - Join us at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to celebrate 15 years of remarkable work of Made In NYC, an initiative the Pratt Center for Community Development. This special evening will bring together and celebrate our city’s diverse and ever evolving manufacturing community. The program will include opening remarks from US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other elected officials, a
- [100 Years of Refuge at the Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/100-years-refuge-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - The Brooklyn Army Terminal was designed for war, a massive warehouse and port facility to receive, store, process, and ship war materiel to points around the globe. But the Terminal did not just send out troops and supplies to wage war; it has also been an important place of refuge and relief for people trying
- [Metro: The 8 essential things to do during Fleet Week in New York](https://turnstiletours.com/metro-the-8-essential-things-to-do-during-fleet-week-in-new-york/) - Metro New York, May 21, 2018 by Eva Kis Tour Military History: For Memorial Day, classic Harbor Line and Turnstile Tours have created a special Military History Tour ($68) about the city’s past from the Revolutionary War through World War II. Sail past New York’s harbor forts, see the Brooklyn Army Terminal, wave to the Statue of
- [Curbed: Exploring Brooklyn’s last remaining dry docks](https://turnstiletours.com/curbed-exploring-brooklyns-last-remaining-dry-docks/) - It’s a strange feeling to be standing in the mud 40 feet below the East River without getting wet. Even stranger is having a 119-foot-tall ship above your head, its 12,000 tons balanced out on a few concrete blocks around you. So it goes every day in the dry docks of the GMD Shipyard, Brooklyn’s last ship repair facility.
- [Guide to Fleet Week New York 2018 Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-to-fleet-week-new-york-2018-ships/) - As Memorial Day approaches, that can only mean one thing – it's Fleet Week in NYC! Here's our annual guide to some of the units that will be in town – be sure to check out the full schedule of events on the official Fleet Week NYC website. If you can't make out to all
- [Finding a World Cup Squad to Root for through Street Food](https://turnstiletours.com/finding-a-world-cup-squad-to-root-for-through-street-food/) - The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off yesterday, and we're struggling to find a team to support. So we decided to turn to some of the street food and market vendors that we work with to find a substitute for the disappointing USMNT. Of the 32 squads playing in Russia, we've whittled it down to
- [Bklyner: Brooklyn Army Terminal Celebrates 100th Anniversary, Unveils New Industrial Space](https://turnstiletours.com/bklyner-brooklyn-army-terminal-celebrates-100th-anniversary-unveils-new-industrial-space/) - Bklyner, June 1, 2018 by Pamela Wong Along with celebrating the Brooklyn Army Terminal‘s (BAT) centennial Thursday morning, the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC), Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen, and Council Member Carlos Menchaca unveiled a new 500,000-square-foot facility that will provide affordable space for up to 20 innovative businesses and create more than
- [Lakeside BKLYN at Prospect Park](https://turnstiletours.com/lakeside-bklyn-prospect-park/) - Located in the Park's southeast corner, Lakeside BKLYN offers year-round activities, dining, and special events, including roller and ice skating, boating, biking, and a summertime splash pad for kids. This is a perfect place to go after our Prospect Park tours, which end at Lakeside's home, the award-winning LeFrak Center at Prospect Park. Also visit Lakeside’s Bluestone café, featuring a
- [Curbed: Saying goodbye to the old Essex Street Market](https://turnstiletours.com/curbed-saying-goodbye-to-the-old-essex-street-market/) - One of the best ways to savor the final days of the old Essex Street Market is on the weekly walking tour offered by Turnstile Tours, which will be held until mid-September. During one of these recent walks, the diverse culinary offerings of the market were on full display,
- [Naval Cemetery Landscape](https://turnstiletours.com/naval-cemetery-landscape/) - The former Naval Hospital Cemetery at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is now a publicly-accessible green space created by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. Part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, a 14-mile bicycle and pedestrian path, this site has been designed as a natural area populated exclusively by native plant species and provides visitors with an escape
- [Five Boroughs Brewing Co.](https://turnstiletours.com/five-boroughs-brewing-co/) - Five Boroughs Brewing is a craft brewery producing 4,000 barrels of beer at annually in the heart of the Sunset Park industrial district. Their taproom is a great place to try their wide and unique selection of beers and is open to the public Thursday–Sunday (visit their website for detailed hours). The brewery is a
- [Kings County Distillery at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/kings-county-distillery-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest, largest, and premier whiskey distillery. Founded in 2010 and moved to the Brooklyn Navy Yard's 1899 Paymaster building in 2012, it was the first distillery opened in the city since Prohibition. Kings County distills, ages, and barrels all of their handmade moonshine, bourbon, and other whiskeys on
- [The Photo That Inspired NYC's Merchant Mariners' Memorial](https://turnstiletours.com/the-photo-that-inspired-of-the-merchant-mariners-memorial/) - On June 9, 2018, Reinhard Hardegen, the last surviving German submarine commander of World War II, died at the age of 105. With his passing, he joins the ghosts of American merchant mariners who still haunt Manhattan's Battery Park. Dedicated in 1991, the American Merchant Mariners' Memorial was created by sculptor Marisol Escobar as tribute
- [Rooftop Reds at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/rooftop-reds-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Rooftop Reds is a rooftop vineyard, tasting room, and outdoor event space located atop an industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, offering great views of the Yard and the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines. They host a variety of events, including movie screenings, tours, and food pairings, and the spaces is available for private events.
- [Celebrate NYC's Best Street Food at the Vendy Awards](https://turnstiletours.com/celebrate-nycs-best-street-food-at-the-vendy-awards/) - For more than a decade, the Vendy Awards have been celebrating the unique - and delicious - contributions that street vendors make to this great city. The event takes place on Governors Island, where 25 of the best vendors gather for an all-you-can-eat-and-drink extravaganza. The lineup of vendors will be announced later this summer, and
- [Brooklyn Kura Sake Brewery at Industry City](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-kura-sake-brewery-industry-city/) - Brooklyn Kura is demystifying sake and making it more accessible by brewing it right here in New York City, hand-crafted with the highest quality ingredients. Located inside Industry City in Sunset Park, the tap room offers a rotating menu of sakes on draft, along with tap room-exclusive varieties like shiboritate, moromi and orizake, and light snacks
- [Prospect Park Zoo](https://turnstiletours.com/prospect-park-zoo/) - The Prospect Park Zoo is a 12-acre zoo located along Flatbush Avenue on the eastern edge of Prospect Park, part of the Park's Children's Corner. Opened in 1935, this zoo cares for more than 400 animals, including sea lions, baboons, and their famous red pandas. Admission is only $8 for adults and $5 for kids,
- [Woodside Press at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/woodside-press-traditional-letterpress-printing-co/) - Woodside Press is a printing company located in Building 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that creates unique, high-quality printed items using traditional letterpress methods. Their workshop includes typefaces, presses, and linotype machines that have been rescued over the years as lithography and digital printing swept away the old methods. Woodside is a working print shop,
- [Daily Express: Brooklyn: Dumbo rebirth of a borough](https://turnstiletours.com/daily-express-brooklyn-dumbo-rebirth-borough/) - Daily Express, July 23, 2018 by Jane Memmler NO OTHER borough of New York has changed as much as Brooklyn in the past decade. It may be within touching distance of Manhattan, but it couldn’t be more different. While its big sister is about old money and iconic landmarks, Brooklyn bristles with creativity, passion and
- [Papermaking Studio Dieu Donné at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/papermaking-studio-dieu-donne-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Dieu Donné is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1976 by Susan Gosin and Bruce Wineberg to explore the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art medium. At their 8,000-square-foot Brooklyn Navy Yard studio, which opened in 2016, they offer residencies and workspace for individual artists, display in their gallery, and host individuals and
- [Paddle with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club](https://turnstiletours.com/paddle-with-the-gowanus-dredgers-canoe-club/) - The Gowanus Canal is one of the most polluted waterways in the country, yet that doesn't stop the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club from taking to the water. Their mission is to raise awareness and advocate for the environmental disaster area that is the canal, and to provide public access and engagement with the waterway itself. The Dredgers lead
- [Brooklyn Grange Farm](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-grange-farm-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Brooklyn Grange is a working commercial farm that also hosts events, designs and builds green roofs, and promotes sustainable living. The Grange produces over 50,000 pounds of produce annually, as well as honey and their famous hot sauce, which is sold to local restaurants, markets, and through their community-supported agriculture program. They currently operate two
- [Bush Terminal Park](https://turnstiletours.com/bush-terminal-park/) - Bush Terminal Park is a secluded natural space in the industrial section of Sunset Park, built on the footprint of the abandoned piers of the old Bush Terminal shipping port. This waterfront park offers spectacular views of Lower Manhattan and the State of Liberty, and a unique opportunity to actually get close to the waterfront,
- [Pete's Brooklyn Eats at the Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/petes-brooklyn-eats-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Pete's Brooklyn Eats has been feeding the hungry workers of the Brooklyn Army Terminal for years. Run by the Macaluso family, they serve up pizza, pasta, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and more with friendly service and at an affordable price. The restaurant is located in the lobby of Building B and is currently open Monday–Friday. We can offer
- [Take NYC Ferry to the Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/take-nyc-ferry-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - One of the fastest and easiest ways to get to our Brooklyn Army Terminal Tours is to take the NYC Ferry, which has two routes that stop there. The Rockaway route will take you there non-stop from Wall St-Pier 11 in just 20 minutes, or direct from Rockaway-Beach 108th St in 30 minutes. The South Brooklyn route runs
- [Lecture: "Naval Cartography and the Brooklyn Navy Yard," Oct. 4](https://turnstiletours.com/lecture-naval-cartography-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-oct-4/) - Continuing the fall discussion series, “Wayfinding for the Wayfarer and the Landlubber,” this talk by Andrew Gustafson investigates the significant role cartography – the art and science of drawing maps – has had in shaping world views, power, and politics. The discussion focuses on developments in navigation and cartography at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during
- [Lecture: "Wendy the Welder: Work in World War II," Oct. 15](https://turnstiletours.com/lecture-wendy-the-welder-work-in-world-war-ii-oct-15/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard reached its peak in World War II, employing 70,000 civilian workers. Desperately short of labor, the Navy employed more than 10,000 women at the Yard, in jobs ranging from seamstress to draftswoman to welder. This lecture by Andrew Gustafson will look back at the history of the Yard, and how World
- [National Manufacturing Day, Oct. 5](https://turnstiletours.com/national-manufacturing-day-oct-5/) - Celebrate National Manufacturing Day with events across the country on Friday, Oct. 5, including two events hosted by Turnstile Tours and our manufacturing partners. At 9:30am, join us at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a tour of Ferra Designs, a shop that designs and fabricates architectural metalwork and furniture. The tour will include an explanation
- [Bklyner: Jennifer Egan Discusses 'Manhattan Beach' at Brooklyn Public Library](https://turnstiletours.com/bklyner-jennifer-egan-discusses-manhattan-beach-at-brooklyn-public-library/) - Bklyner, September 18, 2018 by Robin Kaizer-Schatzlein Last night author Jennifer Egan was in the green room of the Brooklyn Public Library‘s central branch getting ready to go on stage for a talk about her book Manhattan Beach. She is a self-possessed and open woman with the look and delivery of sharp news anchor. Part
- [Brooklyn Roasting Company](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-roasting-company/) - Brooklyn Roasting Company creates and serves unique, fair trade-certified coffees from across the globe. Inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, their headquarters, distribution center, and roasting plant produce more than 1 million pounds of coffee annually, and you can them in their network of cafés across Brooklyn and Manhattan. Visit their café in the BLDG 92, or
- [BLDG 92 Visitor and Exhibition Center](https://turnstiletours.com/bldg-92-visitor-and-exhibition-center/) - BLDG 92 is home to the visitor center, museum, and employment center of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and it is the starting point for all of our Brooklyn Navy Yard Tours. Housed inside the 1857 Marine Commandant's Residence, the "Past, Present, and Future" exhibit spans three floors that explore the history and contemporary development of the
- [Eating Around the Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/eating-near-the-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Located on the border of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, the Brooklyn Army Terminal is nearby to many options for brunch, lunch, or a drink before or after your tour. If you like Mediterranean food, head to Bay Ridge for Lebanese standout Tanoreen or grab take-out from the Family Store. Industry City offers a host
- [Aircraft Carrier Visits Now a Rare Sight in NYC](https://turnstiletours.com/aircraft-carrier-visits-now-rare-sight-nyc/) - Last week, New York City was visited by the flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth. This 65,000-ton carrier has spent several weeks in the US while undergoing flight testing with the F-35B fighter, which will be the primary component of its air wing. The seven-day stopover in New York was mostly for crew
- [Eating Around the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/eating-around-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard covers 300 acres of the waterfront, touching neighborhoods from Dumbo to Fort Greene to Williamsburg. Both inside and outside the Yard's gates are a growing number of places to eat and drink. If you're traveling to the Yard via Dumbo, this neighborhood is packed with eateries for fine dining, a quick
- [Brownstoner: Fighting World War II at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/brownstoner-fighting-world-war-ii-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Brownstoner, January 22, 2019 by Susan De Vries While the Brooklyn Navy Yard is being transformed with new buildings and uses, during World War II thousands of workers toiled to keep America’s battleships and aircraft carriers ready for the troops. Learn more about the busy shipyard and its role in the war with a winter
- [CBS New York: Why Prospect Park Is The Perfect Place For A Love Story](https://turnstiletours.com/cbs-new-york-why-prospect-park-is-the-perfect-place-for-a-love-story/) - CBS New York, February 14, 2019 by John Dias Some even pop the question in the park. So it doesn’t come as a shock that weddings are popular there, too, and have been since the 1920s. “The first official wedding took place in Prospect Park on June 7, 1923, and that was between Elizabeth Hoyt Senarens
- [Russ & Daughters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/russ-daughters-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Founded in 1914 on the Lower East Side by Jewish immigrant Joel Russ, Russ & Daughters is a New York institution. Now a fourth-generation business run by Joel's great-grandchildren Josh Russ Tupper and Niki Russ Federman, they have expanded from their Houston Street store to cafés on Orchard Street and at the Jewish Museum, and
- [Transit at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Past and Present](https://turnstiletours.com/transit-brooklyn-navy-yard-past-present/) - Yesterday the Brooklyn Navy Yard announced that they will be rolling out the first autonomous vehicles in New York City, which will provide a self-driving shuttle service inside the Yard's gates. This exciting announcement inspired us to look back at the history of transit in and around the Yard. Poorly served by mass transit, getting
- [Behind the Scenes at the Prospect Park Carousel](https://turnstiletours.com/behind-scenes-prospect-park-carousel/) - For opening day of the Prospect Park Carousel, Cindy went behind the scenes with the Parks Department and the carousel staff and shared some of the amazing history of this artistic masterpiece. The beautifully-carved horses, lion, and giraffe of the carousel, as well as the real, live animals in the neighboring Prospect Park Zoo, will
- [Brooklyn Designs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, May 10–12](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-designs-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-may-10-12-2019/) - Brooklyn Designs is a showcase of design, architecture, and art, celebrating the creative energy of the borough. Hosted by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, this year's design expo will be taking place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Building 77, where designers and manufacturers of furniture, lighting, tableware, art, textiles, jewelry and more will be displaying
- [Guide to Fleet Week New York 2019 Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-to-fleet-week-new-york-2019-ships/) - New York City used to be a Navy town. Sailors were a regular sight at the city's shipyards and bases, and ships made regular port calls. Now the Navy's footprint is nearly gone, so we really have only Fleet Week New York to look forward to for sailor visits. Below is our annual guide to some
- [Dutch, Canadian NATO Allies Make NYC Port Calls](https://turnstiletours.com/dutch-canadian-nato-allies-make-nyc-port-calls/) - Visits by naval vessels to New York aren't what they once were, but they do still happen, and we try to spot them whenever we can. On April 14, we stopped by Manhattan's Pier 88 to check out a pair of foreign naval vessels that had docked for port calls. HNLMS Zeeland arrived the day
- [Traveller Australia: World's 50 Best Day Tours to Take](https://turnstiletours.com/traveller-worlds-50-best-day-tours-to-take/) - Hundreds of food carts patrol New York's streets every day offering cheap, filling feeds with this two-hour tour visiting some of the best. Sample six dishes including Korean short ribs, Mexican quesadillas and Belgian waffles. You'll get to meet the vendors and understand the challenges of selling food curb-side in the Big Apple.
- [Testifying at NY City Council: Lift the Caps!](https://turnstiletours.com/testifying-ny-city-council-lift-caps/) - On April 11, the New York City Council Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing held a hearing on a package of bills affecting street vendors, most important among them a proposal that would raise the artificial cap put on the number of mobile food vendors that has been in place since 1983. For the
- [Brooklyn Paper: Tour de four: Prospect Park launches a new walk for each week](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-paper-tour-de-four-prospect-park-launches-a-new-walk-for-each-week/) - These tours make history a walk in the park. Four new walking tours will reveal Prospect Park’s rich history and uncover its hidden gems. Prospect Park Walking Tours, starting on April 28, will offer a different guided trip through the green space each Sunday, letting audiences focus on the marvels of Brooklyn’s Back Yard they find most interesting.
- [The Easter Bunny Goes to War](https://turnstiletours.com/easter-bunny-goes-war/) - While many children will be gorging themselves on chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs this morning, these treats were absent from most baskets during World War II. On December 5, 1942, the War Production Board, which supervised wartime industry, issued Conservation Order M-145, banning the manufacture of chocolate novelties, including "products manufactured in a special shape
- [Jane's Walk Around the Brooklyn Navy Yard, May 4](https://turnstiletours.com/janes-walk-around-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-may-4/) - We are hosting a special experience for Jane's Walks around the perimeter of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. For 165 years, the Yard was a leading naval shipyard, and today it is a city-owned industrial park and a center of manufacturing, technology, and craft, home to over 400 industrial and creative businesses, providing 9,000 jobs for New
- [New York City's Public Markets, Past and Present](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-citys-public-markets-past-present/) - This weekend marks the end of an era, as the Essex Street Market will be moving from the building it has occupied since 1940 into a new facility across Delancey St in the Essex Crossing development. The new Essex Market will have nearly all the same vendors as the old market, plus 15 additions, in
- [Mothballed Cargo Ships Visit Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/mothballed-cargo-ships-visit-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Wallabout Bay is currently hosting a pair of ships that harken back to the days of the New York Naval Shipyard, as a pair of mothballed ships from the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet are visiting, Cape Ann and Cape Avinof. Created after World War II, when the US had a massive surplus of merchant
- [The 1919 Brooklyn Chocolate Flood](https://turnstiletours.com/1919-brooklyn-chocolate-flood/) - For Easter, we shared the story of the military's war on the Easter Bunny and good-tasting candy, and the role played by Brooklyn's Rockwood & Company in World War II. In the course of researching that story, we came across another from 1919: The Great Rockwood Chocolate Flood, which occurred 100 years ago today. At this
- [Joining the Fleet Week Parade of Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/joining-fleet-week-parade-ships/) - Since Fleet Week returned to New York City after a sequestration-imposed hiatus in 2013, I have watched the annual parade of ships from underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which gives you a good vantage point on the Navy and Coast Guard vessels as they pass through the channel into the Upper Bay. This year, however, I
- [The Telegraph: The 20 Greatest Ways to See New York](https://turnstiletours.com/the-telegraph-the-20-greatest-ways-to-see-new-york/) - Turnstile Tours has built a reputation for offering quirky tours, from historic sites such as Brooklyn’s Army Terminal to street markets, and donates at least 5 per cent of all ticket sales to neighbourhood projects. New for this year are two-hour walking tours of Prospect Park – Central Park’s more compact sister in Brooklyn – exploring the meadows and woodlands, art and architecture and waterways. There’s also a tour of the Gowanus waffle production space for the trendy Wafels & Dinges chain. As well as meeting the chefs and learning how the business works, visitors get to make (and eat) their own waffles.
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: When Brooklyn Was Queer Tour, June 22](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-when-brooklyn-was-queer-tour-june-22/) - Queer history is linked to Brooklyn’s diversity, creativity, and vibrancy as a borough, yet this history is often forgotten or overlooked. Join us for this special tour about the queer history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, co-led by Turnstile Tours and scholar, curator, and author Hugh Ryan, as we discuss his groundbreaking book When Brooklyn
- [The Pickabacks, Unsung Heroes of D-Day](https://turnstiletours.com/pickabacks-unsung-heroes-d-day/) - Operation Neptune, the seaborne component of the Normandy invasion, required nearly 6,500 vessels to deliver the vast Allied armies and their supplies and equipment onto the continental beaches. This didn't just include warships and landing craft, but also more mundane vessels, like barges. Allied planners scoured the British Isles for craft of any kind to
- [USS Arizona, Brooklyn's Most Famous Battleship](https://turnstiletours.com/uss-arizona-brooklyns-most-famous-battleship/) - Today marks the anniversary of the launching of USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We have written about the Arizona many times before, including about the impact the sinking had on the Yard's workers half a world away, and about our visit to the memorial in Pearl Harbor. It remains one of the most
- [Saving the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Timber Shed](https://turnstiletours.com/saving-brooklyn-navy-yards-timber-shed/) - For the first time in 175 years, the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Timber Shed has emerged from behind a wall, and it is being prepared for a new life. One of the oldest buildings at the Yard, it is one of the few few surviving structures that represents the Yard's early history of wooden shipbuilding. Actually,
- [Taste the Yard: Brooklyn Navy Yard Food Tour, August 16](https://turnstiletours.com/taste-the-yard-brooklyn-navy-yard-food-tour-august-16/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard Yard is a growing community of food manufacturing businesses. On this tour, go behind the scenes at some of the Yard’s most delicious tenants! Participants will learn about different aspects of food production, distribution, and retail, while sampling treats along the way. In addition, guests will gain a better understanding about the history of theYard and learn more about the 450+ businesses that call the Yard home today. As a bonus, the tour gives visitors amazing views
- [USNS Pathfinder, Submarine Hunter](https://turnstiletours.com/usns-pathfinder-submarine-hunter/) - At the Brooklyn Navy Yard's shipyard, operated by GMD, they repair mostly commercial ships, but they also get a fair number of federal government contracts. The shipyard does not repair US Navy combat ships, but we are currently hosting nearly every other federal agency that operates ships, with vessels from the US Coast Guard, Maritime
- [USS Duluth, the End of an Era](https://turnstiletours.com/uss-duluth-end-era/) - On August 14, 1965, the Landing Platform Dock USS Duluth (LPD-6) floated out of Dry Dock No. 3 at the New York Naval Shipyard. In the preceding 145 years, this shipyard had witnessed the launch of 125 commissioned warships of the US Navy, beginning with the 74-gun ship of the line USS Ohio, and this
- [Join the Final Vendy Awards, Sep. 21](https://turnstiletours.com/join-the-final-vendy-awards-sep-21/) - The best day of the year is fast approaching: Saturday, September 21, 2019, the day of the 15th – and final – New York City Vendy Awards. For 15 years, the Street Vendor Project has been convening carts, trucks, and pop-ups to serve up the best street food New York City has to offer, in
- [National Manufacturing Day Tours, Oct. 4](https://turnstiletours.com/national-manufacturing-day-tours-oct-4/) - Celebrate National Manufacturing Day on Friday, Oct. 4 on a guided tour at the Brooklyn Navy Yard focused on interior design and fabrication The tour will begin with an introduction to the Yard’s story, with an emphasis on the diverse array of products, goods, and objects designed and manufactured on-site over the last two centuries. Next,
- [2019 Guide to Open House New York](https://turnstiletours.com/2019-guide-to-open-house-new-york/) - Open House New York Weekend is just over a week away, and with over 300 sites throwing open their doors, some careful planning is required to get the most out of it. We have created a brief thematic guide to some of our favorite sites around the city – especially ones along the waterfront –
- [NY Japan: Social Studies Tours for Adults](https://turnstiletours.com/ny-japan-social-studies-tours-for-adults/) - On a public tour, you can learn how the facility works to transform old things into modern, and to help small businesses that will support New York in the future. Part of that is gathering start-up companies, and providing space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for shared offices. For a long time, Brooklyn has been a major base for the food manufacturing industry, and beer and whiskey are still being produced in one corner of the site, and the long-established Russ & Daughters has also moved their factory to the Navy Yard this year, inside a renovated historic building that is now open to the public as a new attraction.
- [Happy Leif Erikson Day! Two Voyages Tell The Story of America](https://turnstiletours.com/happy-leif-erikson-day-two-voyages-tell-the-story-of-america/) - We couldn't let Leif Erikson Day pass without boasting that we stood in his bedroom. And not in Norway or Iceland or Greenland, but right here in North America, at L'Anse aux Meadows, a National Historic Site and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the northern tip of Newfoundland. But to understand what this place is,
- [USS Edson: From Bath to Brooklyn to Bay City](https://turnstiletours.com/uss-edson-from-bath-to-brooklyn-to-bay-city/) - On a quiet stretch of the Saginaw River just outside Bay City, Michigan, the USS Edson sits as a tribute to America's Cold War destroyer fleet. Built at Maine's Bath Iron Works in 1958, the Forrest Sherman-class ship was an all-gun destroyer (hull numbers DD), soon to be replaced by guided missile-armed ships (DDG). By the
- [Special Brooklyn Navy Yard Tour with Jennifer Egan, Mar 1](https://turnstiletours.com/special-brooklyn-navy-yard-tour-with-jennifer-egan-mar-1/) - Take a special World War II history tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard co-led by Jennifer Egan, author of the award-winning novel Manhattan Beach, and our own resident historian, Andrew Gustafson. As we explore the Yard, visiting many sites mentioned in the book, we will delve into the Jennifer's research process, discuss the materials she
- [Special Tours Mark 75 Years Since the End of World War II at the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/special-tours-mark-75-years-since-the-end-of-world-war-ii-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - World War II came to a close in 1945, and looking back 75 years, it is hard to believe that Americans on the cusp of war in 1940 were as removed from the Civil War as we are from World War II today. Imagine veterans of that war, fought with horses and muskets, still alive
- [Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Digital Fabrication, Jan 31](https://turnstiletours.com/inside-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-digital-fabrication-jan-31/) - Many of the businesses in the Brooklyn Navy Yard bring together traditional handcrafts and advanced manufacturing techniques to create unique, high-quality products. On this tour, we will go "inside industry" with designers and fabricators that use both digital tools and traditional handcrafts to make everything from furniture to tech hardware, and we will learn how companies
- [Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Love Stories and Letterpress, Feb 9](https://turnstiletours.com/inside-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-love-stories-and-letterpress-feb-9/) - Get ready for Valentine's Day on this special Sunday Inside Industry program at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We will first delve into the archives of the Yard to share stores of sailors, seamstresses, shipworkers, and entrepreneurs that have fallen in love at the Yard as we visit some of the most iconic sites of the shipyard. We
- [Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Women Welders, Past and Present, Mar 8](https://turnstiletours.com/inside-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-women-welders-past-and-present-mar-8/) - Celebrate International Women's Day by exploring the past and present of women's labor at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Learn about the history from the early nineteenth century, when women sewed flags and uniforms, to World War II, when women had the opportunity for the first time to work in the shipbuilding professions, as welders, shipfitters, and machinists.
- [Brooklyn to Belfast: Red Bull Division Were First US Overseas Troops of World War II](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-to-belfast-red-bull-division-were-first-us-overseas-troops-of-world-war-ii/) - On January 15, 1942, ships of convoy AT-10 left the Brooklyn Army Terminal to make the journey across the Atlantic. Aboard the transports USS Chateau Thierry and HMTS Strathaird were mostly soldiers of the 34th Infantry Division, aka "Red Bull," 4,058 in all. Codenamed Operation Magnet, this was the first deployment of American combat troops
- [Americal Division: Brooklyn Army Terminal Sends First US Troops to Pacific](https://turnstiletours.com/americal-division-brooklyn-army-terminal-sends-first-us-troops-to-pacific/) - Last week we looked at Operation Magnet, the scramble in the weeks after Pearl Harbor to move American forces into the European battle zone. Just one week after that, it was time to make a move in the Pacific, and the Brooklyn Army Terminal would again be key. Unlike Europe, America already had significant forces
- [Clayton Colefield and the Building of USS Missouri](https://turnstiletours.com/clayton-colefield-and-the-uss-missouri/) - They say a Navy ship has three birthdays: its keel-laying, its launching, and its commissioning. The World War II-era battleship USS Missouri has one more, its recommission in 1986 as part of President Reagan's 600-ship Navy. But one person was witness to its first two birthdays, Brooklyn Navy Yard shipfitter Clayton Colefield, who sat for an
- [Slavery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard](https://turnstiletours.com/slavery-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - After nearly 12 years of leading tours at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of the most difficult questions we get – and almost always from young people – is this: Were there slaves here? This question is vexing not just because of the complex and painful subject matter, but also because the historical record is
- [Inventions of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 1](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-session-inventions-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - For over 200 years, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been on the cutting edge of innovation, first as a leading shipyard for the US Navy, and today as a home to 500+ industrial, manufacturing, design, and technology companies. We’ll look back at inventions – some small enough to hold, some as large as ships –
- [Comfort at Sea: History of Hospital Ships in New York City](https://turnstiletours.com/comfort-at-sea-history-of-hospital-ships-in-new-york-city/) - The hospital ship USNS Comfort is en route to New York City. One of just two hospital ships in the Navy fleet, it has been dispatched from Norfolk, while its sister ship Mercy recently arrived in Los Angeles. Comfort will dock at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal (and some dredging is required to fit the converted
- [The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 1 | Episode 7](https://turnstiletours.com/the-history-of-nyc-public-markets-part-1/) - Take a deep dive into the history of New York City’s public markets, which have their origins in a vast food distribution system set up by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the 1930’s. Once encompassing 10 retail markets and nearly as many wholesale facilities, today many of the historic buildings of this era remain, and these
- [NYC Street Vendors: How Can We Help Them? | Episode 13](https://turnstiletours.com/nyc-street-vendors-how-can-we-help-them/) - There are as many as 20,000 street vendors in New York City, most of whom are immigrants. This program will focus on the impact of the current public health crisis on the lives and livelihoods of New York City’s street vendors, including an interview with Mohamed Attia, Executive Director of the Street Vendor Project, a
- [Brownstoner: Virtual Prospect Park Launches to Help Brooklynites Adhere to Social Distancing](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-prospect-park-launches-to-help-brooklynites-adhere-to-social-distancing/) - While you can still appreciate the beauty of the park for brief respites of fresh air with appropriate social distancing, the Prospect Park Alliance is encouraging visitors to head online to explore the green space with a new resource. Virtual Prospect Park includes resources from educators, historians, gardeners and others to allow a look into Brooklyn’s backyard while following the directive to stay indoors as much as possible during the crisis.
- [Census Day: Telling Brooklyn's Story Through the US Census | Episode 15](https://turnstiletours.com/census-day-telling-brooklyns-story-through-the-us-census/) - April 1 is Census Day, so we're discussing the importance of the 2020 Census, and delving into the history, from the first federal census of 1790 to the present day. First, we will speak with Kathleen Daniel, NYC Census Field Director about this year's census and what is at stake for delivering vital services and
- [Exploring the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History | Episode 17](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-reher-center-for-immigrant-culture-and-history/) - Join Sarah Litvin, former Turnstile guide and current director of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History in Kingston, New York, to learn how immigration, community, work, and bread shaped this Hudson Valley city in the mid-twentieth century. We'll virtually visit the historic Reher's Bakery, an immigrant family-run business that served the diverse working-class
- [Manufacturing in Crisis: The State of NYC Manufacturing with Adam Friedman | Episode 18](https://turnstiletours.com/manufacturing-in-crisis-the-state-of-nyc-manufacturing-with-adam-friedman/) - The COVID-19 crisis has thrust manufacturing into the national spotlight, as the city, state, and nation struggle to procure necessary medical equipment, and companies big and small pivot to produce these critical supplies. How did we get here? What do we still make in NYC? How will manufacturing businesses survive this crisis? We will tackle
- [The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 2 | Episode 22](https://turnstiletours.com/the-history-of-nyc-public-markets-part-2/) - Take a deep dive into the history of New York City’s public markets, which have their origins in a vast food distribution system set up by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the 1930’s. Once encompassing 10 retail markets and nearly as many wholesale facilities, today many of the historic buildings of this era remain, and these
- [How It's Made: Scott Jordan Furniture | Episode 46](https://turnstiletours.com/how-its-made-scott-jordan-furniture/) - Go inside industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with Scott Jordan Furniture, a manufacturer of beautiful solid-wood furniture that has been in business for more than 35 years. Founder Scott Jordan will take us on a virtual tour of his shop and his production process, which blends traditional and advanced manufacturing techniques. He will walk us
- [Places New Yorkers Love: In Conversation with Author and Artist John Tebeau | Episode 48](https://turnstiletours.com/places-new-yorkers-love-in-conversation-with-author-and-artist-john-tebeau/) - Join our conversation with artist and author John Tebeau, who's book "Bars, Taverns, and Dives New Yorkers Love" features beautiful portraits and loving tributes to some of the best gathering places in neighborhoods across this great city. John will share his artwork and his favorite neighborhood spots that bring people together, and we will invite everyone to share
- [A Church Grows in Brooklyn: Historic Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary's | Episode 43](https://turnstiletours.com/a-church-grows-in-brooklyn-historic-most-holy-trinity-st-marys/) - Explore one of the most beautiful and historic churches in Brooklyn, Williamsburg's Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary. Established in 1843 as the first German Catholic parish on Long Island, the stunning cathedral-like structure was completed in 1885 and was a key location in Betty Smith's 1943 classic "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Cindy and Andrew were
- [Earth Day: Ecology of Prospect Park | Episode 38](https://turnstiletours.com/earth-day-ecology-of-prospect-park/) - Celebrate Earth Day by virtually exploring Brooklyn's largest forest with us and Prospect Park Alliance forest ecologist Howard Goldstein. We will learn about some of the park's 30,000 trees, ongoing forest maintenance and restoration projects, and how the the Alliance is adapting to challenges like climate change, invasive species, pests, and extreme weather events. Trees of Prospect
- [Virtual Visit to the Church Murals of Artist Maxo Vanka in Millvale, PA | Episode 28](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-visit-to-the-church-murals-of-artist-maxo-vanka-in-millvale-pa/) - St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, PA, just outside Pittsburgh, is home to one of the most remarkable works of church art in America, a series of 25 murals painted by celebrated Croatian painter Maxo Vanka. Painted in 1937 and 1941, the murals depict stories of immigration, war, labor, and injustice in vivid, expressive scenes
- [Dredging the Past and Present of the Gowanus Canal | Episode 31](https://turnstiletours.com/dredging-the-past-and-present-of-the-gowanus-canal/) - Best known today for its pollution and gentrification, the Gowanus Canal is an historic waterway that has seen war, industry, innovation, and reinvention play out along its banks. We will speak with poet, preservationist, and paddler Brad Vogel, captain of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and executive director of the New York Preservation Archive, about the history of
- [ARA General Belgrano: A Lost Ship, A Stolen Photograph](https://turnstiletours.com/ara-general-belgrano-a-lost-ship-a-stolen-photograph/) - At 3:57 p.m. on May 2, 1982, the British submarine HMS Conqueror fired a spread of three torpedoes at the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, located approximately 230 nautical miles southwest of the Falkland Islands. Two of the weapons found their marks, fore and aft of the ship's protective belt armor on the port side.
- [Street Organizing: A Conversation with Sean Basinski | Episode 55](https://turnstiletours.com/street-organizing-a-conversation-with-sean-basinski/) - We are thrilled to sit down with Sean Basinski, the founder and former director of the Street Vendor Project. Sean will walk us through his journey from law student to running a food cart in New York City to being an advocate and organizer of street vendors throughout the city. We'll learn about the early
- [Hospital Ships and Shipwright Tools: Exploring Collections of the South Street Seaport Museum | Episode 56](https://turnstiletours.com/hospital-ships-and-shipwright-tools-exploring-collections-of-the-south-street-seaport-museum/) - Dive into the collections of South Street Seaport Museum with Director of Collections Martina Caruso, who will share some of the highlights among the museum's 28,000+ artifacts and 55,000+ archival materials that document the rise of New York as a port city. In honor of the recent visit of the hospital ship USNS Comfort, we will look
- [Immigrant Food for an Immigrant Nation with Nuchas Chief Empanada Officer | Episode 58](https://turnstiletours.com/immigrant-food-for-an-immigrant-nation-with-nuchas-chief-empanada-officer/) - Ariel Barbouth was born and raised in Argentina and came to New York City with his wife Leni in 2009 with a dream: to bring traditional Argentine empanadas and make them mainstream in the US. Since then, their company Nuchas has opened kiosks, launched Vendy Award-winning food trucks and carts, opened an empanada factory, and soon they
- [Before Rosie: Women at the Brooklyn Navy Yard pre-World War II | Episode 59](https://turnstiletours.com/before-rosie/) - Before the celebrated images of "Rosie the Riveter" and "Winnie the Welder," women served in a variety of roles at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in uniform and as civilian workers. We will celebrate Mother's Day by looking back at the flag makers, telephone operators, nurses, and more that made the Navy Yard run, and paved
- [Wall Street's Finest Falafel: A Conversation with Adel El Nagar | Episode 60](https://turnstiletours.com/wall-streets-finest-falafel-a-conversation-with-adel-el-nagar/) - For nearly 20 years, Adel El Nagar has been serving food of his native Egypt on the streets of New York. Known for his made-to-order falafel, his cart Adel's #1 Halal was recognized as one of the best in the city when it won the 2017 People's Choice Vendy Award. Join this conversation with one
- [A Year in Review at Essex Market | Episode 63](https://turnstiletours.com/a-year-in-review-at-essex-market/) - On May 13, 2019, Essex Market moved from its 1940 building to a new home at Essex Crossing, opening a new chapter in the market's history by adding 13 new vendors, a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen, robust public seating, and tripling the market's footprint. Despite the change in venue, Essex Market remains dedicated to its mission
- [Chaos and Control: On Painting and Toys with Paul Campbell | Episode 67](https://turnstiletours.com/chaos-and-control-on-painting-and-toys-with-paul-campbell-2/) - Brooklyn Navy Yard-based artist Paul Campbell started to experiment with painting with his children’s toys in 1998 and has since explored the tension and balance between chaos and control. His abstract paintings that start with unpredictable patterns on the canvas created by the movements of toys, including remote control cars, tiny motorcycles, and koosh balls.
- [From Orchard to Essex: Street Peddlers and Market Vendors with the Tenement Museum](https://turnstiletours.com/from-orchard-to-essex-street-peddlers-and-market-vendors/) - When Essex Street Market opened in 1940, it was heralded as a new era for commerce, as the city promised to clear the streets of pushcart peddlers and provide a clean, orderly space for shoppers. Many former street vendors set up shop in the new market's 475 stalls, but New Yorkers lamented the loss of
- ["Manhattan Beach": The Brooklyn Navy Yard of World War II with Jennifer Egan | Episode 66](https://turnstiletours.com/manhattan-beach-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-of-world-war-ii-with-jennifer-egan/) - Take a virtual tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in World War II with Jennifer Egan, author of the award-winning novel Manhattan Beach, and our own resident historian, Andrew Gustafson. We will highlight many of the sites featured in the novel and delve into the Jennifer’s research process, discuss the materials she used to bring
- [Brooklyn Army Terminal: Unexpected Stories from the Archives | Episode 65](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-army-terminal-unexpected-stories-from-the-archives/) - The Brooklyn Army Terminal has served many functions over the years, including as a liquor storehouse in the 1920's, a coffee roastery in the 1930's postal sorting center in the 1960's, and a massive art exhibition space in the 1980's. In celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the Terminal's groundbreaking, we will be delving into
- [Feeding NYC: The History of the Supermarket | Episode 64](https://turnstiletours.com/history-of-the-supermarket/) - During the pandemic, supermarkets are the few public places that people still frequent, so this is a perfect time to look back at the history of grocery stores in America and New York City. From Piggly Wiggly to Whole Foods to Korean grocers, this virtual program will look at important moments in the evolution of
- ["Mind the Light, Kate": New York's Most Famous Lighthouse Keeper with the Noble Maritime Collection | Episode 70](https://turnstiletours.com/mind-the-light/) - "Mind the Light, Kate." From 1890 to 1919, Kate Walker honored this request from her dying husband as he was taken from their home, the lighthouse on Robbins Reef just off Staten Island's North Shore in New York Harbor. Megan Beck, Curator at the Noble Maritime Collection, joins us to share the story of this remarkable
- [Voices of Essex Market with Feed Me A Story | Episode 75](https://turnstiletours.com/voices-of-essex-market-with-feed-me-a-story/) - In celebration of Lower East Side History Month, join us for a conversation with Theresa Loong, Laura Nova, and Sarah Kramer about Feed Me A Story's video and audio documentation of Essex Market that explores what it means to be an American through questions like, "What is your favorite childhood food?" or "What was the
- [Eating In Translation with Dave Cook | Episode 77](https://turnstiletours.com/eating-in-translation-with-dave-cook/) - Many fairs, festivals, and food bazaars, rooted in culinary traditions from all over the world, have been postponed or cancelled this spring. New York-based photojournalist Dave Cook will lead a virtual tour through all corners of the city to look at the past, and the future, of these beloved events. Since 2005 his website Eating In Translation
- [Tales from the Archives: The Puerto Rican Experience Reflected in Federal Records | Episode 74](https://turnstiletours.com/the-puerto-rican-experience-reflected-in-federal-records/) - Government records are not just the stuff of bureaucratic nightmares. While created to serve agency functions, federal records can also reveal very personal stories. Dennis Riley, an archivist at the New York State Archives, and formerly at the National Archives in New York and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, will discuss some of the
- [Fleet Week New York, Past and Present | Episode 71](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-new-york-past-and-present/) - For just the second time in 33 years, Fleet Week New York has been cancelled this year, so instead, we will look back at Fleet Weeks and naval reviews held over the past century in New York Harbor. From the return of the victorious fleet after World War II to OpSails to ships of the
- [Vaux & Olmsted: Public Spaces, Private Lives | Episode 79](https://turnstiletours.com/vaux-olmsted-public-spaces-private-lives/) - Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted are best known for designing landmark landscapes in New York City and across the country, most notably Prospect Park and Central Park. Both men had wildly different lives and careers before their collaboration began, and yet they found incredible chemistry and creative energy together, though later their lives again
- [Struggle and Resilience on Manhattan's Lower East Side | Episode 83](https://turnstiletours.com/struggle-and-resilience-on-manhattans-lower-east-side/) - In celebration of Lower East Side History Month, this virtual program will explore how the neighborhood has weathered difficult times, including stories of mutual aid, charity, and resilience shared from the Museum at Eldridge Street’s archives and by historian Sarah Litvin. At the end of the program, we will interview staff from the LES Partnership
- [Virtual Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities | Episode 84](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-accessibility-challenges-and-opportunities/) - During the pandemic, our daily routines have largely shifted from the physical world to virtual platforms, from school and work to social gatherings and religious ceremonies. This virtual program will engage disability advocates in a roundtable conversation about the ramifications of this shift and their observations and insights on this moment's impact on the future
- [Flash and Clang: Aids to Navigation with the Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac | Episode 85](https://turnstiletours.com/aids-to-navigation-with-the-historic-lighthouse-tender-lilac/) - Unlock the mystery of maritime navigation with Mary Habstritt of the Lilac Preservation Project. At night many of our waterways become constellations of flashing lights. These Aids to Navigation (or AtoNs) keep our marine traffic moving safely, but most of us have only the vaguest idea what they mean or what it takes to establish
- [A Rose in Spanish Harlem: Gardening with Urban Garden Center | Episode 86](https://turnstiletours.com/gardening-with-urban-garden-center-video/) - Join us for a gardening demonstration and conversation with Dimitri Gatanas of the Urban Garden Center at La Marqueta, a third generation family-owned business in East Harlem. We'll hear the story of his family's business, which dates back to 1957, discuss generations of gardeners in the local community, learn some gardening tips, and virtually explore
- [The Saga of Salty Sam, Navy Mascot | Episode 82](https://turnstiletours.com/the-saga-of-salty-sam/) - In 1953, the USS Wrangell was sailing off the coast of Portugal when it encountered a fishing boat adrift; on board was just a lone fisherman, dead, a dog, barely alive. The dog was adopted by the crew and eventually brought back to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, though the mystery of "Salty Sam's" origins have
- [Exploring the Erie Canal with Will Van Dorp | Episode 78](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-erie-canal-with-will-van-dorp-video/) - Two hundred years ago New York State was in the midst of digging a canal to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie, a civil engineering project that would transform the state and the country. Canal builders followed ancient waterways, re-imagining their scale and modifying them several times in relation to evolving technology. The canal
- [Rocking The Boat: Changing Lives on the Bronx River | Episode 93](https://turnstiletours.com/rocking-the-boat/) - The Whitehall skiff, a style of boat developed in New York 200 years ago, has been changing the lives of teens in the Bronx for the last 20 years at a program called Rocking the Boat. Founder and Executive Director Adam Green joins us to discuss the Whitehall and the impact of youth development based on
- [My Wuhan with Gina Gao | Episode 91](https://turnstiletours.com/my-wuhan-with-gina-gao/) - Join us for this special virtual program that will share a different side of the historic city of Wuhan through the lens of our staff member Gina Gao, a Queens resident who grew up in this Chinese city most Americans had never heard of six months ago. She will provide an introduction to Wuhan and
- [Waterfront Workers: Finding the Harkins Family with Julie Golia | Episode 88](https://turnstiletours.com/finding-the-harkins-family-with-julie-golia/) - The waterfront has long been the epicenter of Brooklyn's economic and cultural life, yet the stories of ordinary workers in the once-bustling piers and factories can be difficult to locate. In this program, historian Julie Golia will share how one small newspaper item – a 1873 notice of the untimely death of dockworker Michael Harkins
- [COVID-19 and Food Access: An Ongoing Crisis | Episode 98](https://turnstiletours.com/covid-19-and-food-access/) - During the pandemic, as many as two million New Yorkers are struggling with food insecurity, a longstanding challenge that has been exacerbated by the crisis. In this virtual program, we will be joined by Dr. Eliza Whiteman Kinsey, Associate Research Scientist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, who will
- [In Service to Seafarers from Titanic to Today: Seamen's Church Institute | Episode 103](https://turnstiletours.com/seamens-church-institute/) - The day that news of the Titanic's sinking reached New York, dignitaries assembled at 25 South Street on the tip of Lower Manhattan to lay the cornerstone. That building would stand tall among the icons of the Port of New York and vastly improved the lives of the seafarers who helped build this port city's
- [A Conversation with Think!Chinatown | Episode 105](https://turnstiletours.com/a-conversation-with-think-chinatown/) - Manhattan’s Chinatown has been a destination for visitors from around the world seeking exotic food and curiosities for more than 100 years. Think!Chinatown works to demystify this neighborhood, while connecting people and resources to Chinatown businesses and organizations. Co-founder Yin Kong will share some of Think!Chinatown’s most recent projects, discuss their work with the community, and talk
- [An Unfree Fleet: Slavery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 106](https://turnstiletours.com/an-unfree-fleet/) - When the Brooklyn Navy Yard was founded in 1801, more than a quarter of the inhabitants of Kings County were enslaved, and 60% of households included an enslaved person. This program will look at how the institution of slavery was intricately linked to the operations of the Yard, even after New York enacted emancipation in
- [Closing Day: The Brooklyn Navy Yard Since 1966 | Episode 104](https://turnstiletours.com/closing-day-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-since-1966/) - On June 25, 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard closed its doors after 165 years of "Service to the Fleet." This virtual program with Navy Yard historian Andrew Gustafson will look at the rationale for the Yard's closure, its sale to the City of New York and reopening as a private shipyard building crude oil supertankers,
- [Lighter Life with David Sharps of the Waterfront Museum | Episode 102](https://turnstiletours.com/lighter-life-with-david-sharps-of-the-waterfront-museum-video/) - The Lehigh Valley No. 79 covered barge shuttled cargo around New York Harbor from 1914 until sometime around the mid-1970s. David Sharps rescued this wooden barge in 1985, digging it out the mud, floating it, and renovating into a museum, performance space, and the home where he and his wife raised their daughters. We take
- [Puppets, Shadows, and Shining Your Light: Conversation and Demo with Jean Marie Keevins | Episode 101](https://turnstiletours.com/conversation-and-demo-with-jean-marie-keevins/) - Jean Marie Keevins is a NYC-based, Emmy-nominated puppet supervisor, producer, writer, puppet artist, and owner of Little Shadow Productions. She is currently Puppet Supervisor for Apple TV+ and Sesame Workshop’s Helpsters, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards this year. This program will look at Keevins’ recent work on "Helpsters," as well as her co-authored plays "Zwerge"
- [A Look Back at the Vendy Awards with the Street Vendor Project's Matt Shapiro | Episode 99](https://turnstiletours.com/a-look-back-at-the-vendy-awards-with-the-street-vendor-projects-matt-shapiro/) - The Vendy Awards were an annual celebration of the best street vendors in New York City hosted by the Street Vendor Project, a project of the Urban Justice Center. It was by far our favorite day of the year, full of food, friends, and a celebration of the vibrant vendor community. After 15 years, the Vendy
- [Bowne & Co.: Letterpress Printing in 19th-Century New York | Episode 110](https://turnstiletours.com/bowne-co-letterpress-printing-in-19th-century-new-york/) - Bowne & Co., Stationers opened their doors at the South Street Seaport Museum in 1975, 200 years after Robert Bowne founded his shop across the street on Queen Lane. Today Bowne & Co., continues the tradition of 19th-century letterpress printing. This virtual program with Art Director Rob Wilson – co-hosted with Stefan Dreisbach Williams from the home of
- [Progressivism and Purified Air: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Living Machines | Episode 112](https://turnstiletours.com/progressivism-and-purified-air/) - Join our conversation with Sara Carr, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape at Northeastern University, who will discuss Frederick Law Olmsted’s origins in public health, and how his background in the US Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, and his journalistic advocacy inspired his designs of Central Park and Prospect Park. Olmsted’s prolific writings give
- [Three Generations of Conservation: The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park | Episode 109](https://turnstiletours.com/the-marsh-billings-rockefeller-national-historic-park/) - Vermont is known for its natural beauty, but the National Park Service has only one property in the state, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park. Established in 1992, the park tells the story of three men who occupied the same piece of land over time in the small town of Woodstock, and each had a unique impact
- [Shipbuilding in the US Navy Today | Episode 113](https://turnstiletours.com/shipbuilding-in-the-us-navy-today/) - One of the most frequent questions from visitors on our Brooklyn Navy Yard Tours is, where are the ships of the US Navy built today? At its height in 1966, the US Navy operated 12 shipyards that built and repaired a huge proportion of the fleet; today, it operates only four, and all ship construction is done
- [From Fufu to Cheb: Enjoying West African Cuisines in NYC with Dave Cook | Episode 111](https://turnstiletours.com/from-fufu-to-cheb-video/) - We are pleased to welcome back food photographer and writer Dave Cook of Eating In Translation to discuss a family of fascinating cuisines. Many of us might not have had the opportunity to enjoy the food of Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, or Ghana; these and many more can be found throughout New York City. Dave will share his
- [More Tales from the Archives: Puerto Rico and the US Military | Episode 108](https://turnstiletours.com/more-tales-from-the-archives-puerto-rico-and-the-us-military-video/) - Join us for part two of our conversation with archivist Dennis Riley of the New York State Archive. Dennis will share his research into the treasure trove of materials related to Puerto Rico held at the National Archives at New York, focusing on the role of the US military on the island from the Spanish-American War onward.
- [Preserving the Fleet of the South Street Seaport Museum | Episode 117](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-fleet-of-the-south-street-seaport/) - Since its founding over 52 years ago, South Street Seaport Museum has faced the daunting job of preserving its historic fleet. Join us for a photographic voyage with Director of Historic Ships Jesse Lebovics to see the challenges and remarkable efforts made for the long term preservation of 1885 ship Wavertree, 1930 tugboat W.O. Decker, 1885 schooner
- [The Melvilles and Sailors' Snug Harbor: A Story of New York | Episode 118](https://turnstiletours.com/the-melvilles-and-sailors-snug-harbor-video/) - By the time he published Moby-Dick in 1851, Herman Melville's career as a popular prose writer was almost over. While Melville was working on the docks as a customs inspector to support his family, his younger brother Thomas was across the harbor with one of the best jobs in New York City: governor of Staten
- [The Marx Brothers in NYC with Noah Diamond | Episode 114](https://turnstiletours.com/the-marx-brothers-in-nyc-with-noah-diamond-video/) - Noah Diamond is a man of many hats, including a Groucho Marx painted mustache and cigar. In addition to being a New York City tour guide, writer, performer, and designer, he is also an expert on all things Marx Brothers. On this special program, he'll walk us through the many connections Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo
- [A Brief History of NYC Street Vending with the Street Vendor Project | Episode 115](https://turnstiletours.com/a-brief-history-of-nyc-street-vending-video/) - Street vending has been a part of New York City's public life for hundreds of years, often taken up by newcomers to the country and New Yorkers excluded from the formal economy, as a means of starting a small business. For this special virtual program, Cindy VandenBosch and Andrew Gustafson will explore street vending history
- [U-Boats, Bootleggers, and Buoys: The History of the Coast Guard in New York Harbor | Episode 119](https://turnstiletours.com/the-history-of-the-coast-guard-in-new-york-harbor/) - To mark the 230th birthday of the United States Coast Guard, we're looking back at the history of the "always ready" service. Due to New York's position as one of the country's largest ports, the Coast Guard has ensured its safety and security for more than two centuries, and today they have the largest presence
- [Boatbuilding History with the City Island Nautical Museum | Episode 122](https://turnstiletours.com/boatbuilding-history-with-the-city-island-nautical-museum/) - For well over a century, City Island in western Long Island Sound was an important maritime community, not only as a destination for tourists — which it still is — but also as a center of yacht building and sail-making. As fiberglass superseded wood, the boatbuilding ceased, and the sail-making industry moved on to other
- [Coney Island Cats with Rev. Jen Miller | Episode 120](https://turnstiletours.com/coney-island-cats-with-rev-jen-miller-video/) - We are excited to welcome back artist, author and local legend Rev. Jen Miller. We last joined her for a behind-the-scenes look at her extensive collection of Troll Dolls, once the main feature of the now-shuttered Lower East Side Troll Museum. Jen will return for a discussion of her most recent project, a series of Coney
- [Voices of World War II: Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral Histories | Episode 124](https://turnstiletours.com/voices-of-world-war-ii/) - To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, we are listening to the voices of men and women who lived through the war in Brooklyn. We will share a selection of the 100+ oral histories that make up the collection in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives to bring the city at war to
- [The Trees of Prospect Park with Howard Goldstein | Episode 126](https://turnstiletours.com/the-trees-of-prospect-park-with-howard-goldstein/) - Get to know the trees of Prospect Park! Prospect Park Alliance forest ecologist Howard Goldstein joins us again for a discussion about the 30,000 trees of the park. We will look at common native and invasive tree species (and how to recognize them), the different forest types in the park, why some of our native trees are
- [Images d'Épinal: Paper Models from the Turn of the Century | Episode 127](https://turnstiletours.com/images-depinal-video/) - Papercraft modeling and dolls are as old as paper, but the art form exploded in the 19th century with new innovations in printing technology, and tiny French city of Épinal became one of the global centers of printmaking. During the pandemic, papercraft modeling has been a welcome respite, and we have found countless Épinal prints
- [White Sauce, Hot Sauce: Film Screening & Conversation to support the Street Vendor Project](https://turnstiletours.com/white-sauce-hot-sauce-film-screening-conversation-to-support-the-street-vendor-project/) - 'White Sauce Hot Sauce' is a 20-minute documentary film that follows the lives of two food vendors originally from Egypt, who have migrated to NYC and set up shop as Halal street food vendors. The food vendor narrative in New York is not a new one, but a constantly evolving one. From Kosher Hot Dogs and Pretzels,
- [Lighting the Way: Staten Island's National Lighthouse Museum | Episode 129](https://turnstiletours.com/national-lighthouse-museum/) - From the Civil War through the 1960's, a site next to the Staten Island Ferry terminal served as the central depot supplying America's lighthouses and Aids to Navigation. Join us for a virtual visit with historian Wade Goria to the National Lighthouse Museum, which tells the story of this essential service and the people, equipment, and
- [The 9/11 Boatlift: Panel Discussion with Maritime Heroes | Episode 134](https://turnstiletours.com/the-9-11-boatlift/) - Join us for this special program, presented in partnership with the Transportation Institute and the New York Council Navy League, to hear firsthand stories from the Coast Guard and maritime industry personnel who took part in the 9/11 Boatlift. As tragedy unfolded on September 11, 2001, ordinary Americans did what Americans do at their best
- [Planting for Pollinators and Native Plant Gardening | Episode 133](https://turnstiletours.com/planting-for-pollinators-and-native-plant-gardening/) - Learn how Prospect Park restores and manages habitat for pollinator conservation, why invertebrates are so important to Brooklyn, how managers choose plants, why native plants are critical to pollinator survival, and how anyone with a little bit of space can plant a pollinator-friendly native garden. We will again be joined by Prospect Park Alliance forest ecologist Howard
- [From Arizona to Missouri: Bookends of World War II | Episode 130](https://turnstiletours.com/from-arizona-to-missouri/) - To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, we are looking back at the remarkable careers of the ships where the war began and ended for the United State, both built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. USS Arizona was built in 1916, and 25 years later, it was destroyed in the attack on Pearl
- [Marnee Thai's Pad Thai | Thai Food in America Recipes](https://turnstiletours.com/marnee-thais-pad-thai/) - 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 Chai walks us through the special treatment that must be given to the ingredients to make a perfect Pad Thai, even as he makes his
- ["Every Day Is a Holiday" Film Screening and Discussion | Episode 136](https://turnstiletours.com/every-day-is-a-holiday/) - Chinese-American filmmaker Theresa Loong knew little about her father’s past. One day, she found his secret diary, written when he was a POW in a Japanese work camp during World War II. In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, we will be screening "Every Day Is a Holiday," followed by a Q&A
- [Cycling for All New Yorkers: Adaptive Bicycles with Adapt Ability | Episode 141](https://turnstiletours.com/cycling-for-all-new-yorkers-adaptive-bicycles-with-adapt-ability/) - As New Yorkers are riding their bicycles more than ever, new Brooklyn-based nonprofit Adapt Ability is on a mission to ensure that people with disabilities can enjoy cycling in the city's parks and streets. During this virtual program, we will interview Sunset Park entrepreneur Sandra Alfonzo about her journey from being a bicycle shop owner to running
- [Climate Week: Tackling Climate Change in Prospect Park | Episode 140](https://turnstiletours.com/tackling-climate-change-in-prospect-park/) - Celebrate Climate Week NYC and learn how climate change has affected Prospect Park and other natural areas in New York City and the projections for the future, including how Prospect Park Alliance and the Natural Areas Conservancy is using the best available science to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and preserve our urban forests. We will again be joined
- [Climate Week: Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Virtual Tour | Episode 137](https://turnstiletours.com/lower-manhattan-coastal-resiliency-virtual-tour/) - Like many cities around the world, New York City is facing the reality of climate change and its severe impacts on the urban environment. In Lower Manhattan, high tides with sea level rise are projected to flood multiple city blocks on regular basis in this generation. If we don’t take action, climate threats to this
- [How It's Well Made: Woodworking with Bien Hecho | Episode 139](https://turnstiletours.com/how-its-well-made-woodworking-with-bien-hecho/) - Join us for a virtual visit to Bien Hecho, a woodworking business at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that specializes in making furniture, millwork, cabinetry, public street seats, and other custom woodwork from reclaimed and sustainably-sourced wood. We'll hear the story behind John Randall's decade-old business, and how he has salvaged and transformed scrap wood, from
- [National Manufacturing Day at the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 143](https://turnstiletours.com/national-manufacturing-day-at-the-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Celebrate National Manufacturing Day by visiting one of the centers of industry in New York City, the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Located in Sunset Park, the Brooklyn Army Terminal is home to over 100 companies, ranging from food to precision machining, fashion to biotechnology. On this virtual tour, we visit with Makerspace NYC, Lee Spring, and
- [Two Centuries of Building the Navy: From Brooklyn to the Bayou | Virtual Program for the Navy League](https://turnstiletours.com/two-centuries-of-building-the-navy-from-brooklyn-to-the-bayou/) - This three-part series is presented in partnership with the New York Council Navy League, with support from Huntington Ingalls Industries. These programs look at over two hundred years of naval shipbuilding at a variety of scales, from the hyper-local of Brooklyn to the present-day landscape of America's shipbuilding industry. Part one examines shipbuilding at the Brooklyn Navy
- [How to Take a Walk in an Era of Social Distancing with Photographer Sean Carroll | Episode 144](https://turnstiletours.com/how-to-take-a-walk-in-an-era-of-social-distancing/) - In the height of the pandemic, artist Sean Carroll drew inspiration from his street and neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to create How to Take a Walk in an Era of Social Distancing: A Step-by-Step Guide, a multimedia project aimed at documenting his and his family's daily activities as a way to approach daily life in this new reality
- [Inclusive Design and Employment for People of All Abilities | Made in NYC Week | Episode 146](https://turnstiletours.com/inclusive-design-and-employment-for-people-of-all-abilities/) - In this special Made in NYC Week program, learn how New York City’s makers and manufacturers are advancing inclusion of people with disabilities through adaptive design and employment practices. In this panel discussion, we will speak with the Adaptive Design Association, which creates adaptations of expensive and non-custom commercial products for people with disabilities; learn
- [Breuckelen: Stories of Brooklyn's Dutch History and Heritage | Episode 148](https://turnstiletours.com/breuckelen-stories-of-brooklyns-dutch-history-and-heritage-video/) - In 1636, the first European settler, Willem Adriaensen Benet, was granted title to land in what is today Brooklyn. Though Dutch rule over the colony would last only 30 years, Dutch culture and language would persist in Brooklyn for well over 200 years. In this conversation with journalist and amateur genealogist Sarah Crean, who worked
- [Amazing Thailand Uptown's Somtam Papaya Salad | Thai Food in America Recipes](https://turnstiletours.com/amazing-thailand-uptowns-somtam-papaya-salad/) - 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 5, "Cooking Thai Regional Dishes: Northeast." This salad comes from Thailand's northeast Isan region, and we have included the recipe for their Thai version of
- [Chef Warunee Mouthapong's Spicy Curried Rice Salad | Thai Food in America Recipes](https://turnstiletours.com/chef-warunee-mouthapong-spicy-curried-rice-salad/) - 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 series, episode 5, "Cooking Thai Regional Dishes: Northeastern" This recipe consists of four component parts – fermented pork (naem), red curry paste, curried rice balls
- [New York City Sightseeing is Slowly Returning With Creative Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-city-sightseeing-is-slowly-returning-with-creative-tours/) - Turnstile Tours, a Brooklyn-based company, normally offers custom-made walking tours of locations like the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Essex Market, in partnership with local businesses and organizations. Today, the same ethos of community and access which animates Turnstile’s walking tours is available through its Virtual Programs.
- [Prospect Park Waterways Virtual Tour | Episode 152](https://turnstiletours.com/prospect-park-waterways/) - Join us for a virtual exploration of Prospect Park's waterways. We will look closely at the ingenious drainage system and chain of manmade streams and ponds that terminate in Brooklyn’s largest lake, follow the park’s scenic watercourse, and go inside one of the most unique features of the park: the 1869 Wellhouse, the park’s last
- [Open House New York at Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 150](https://turnstiletours.com/open-house-new-york-at-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - As Open House New York Weekend goes online this year, we are hosting a virtual visit to one of the most popular sites of the weekend, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, so join us for a live exploration of the site's architecture, history, and industry. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and built in 1918–1919, the Terminal is an architectural
- [Wall Street to Astoria Ferry Guide | Self-Guided Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/wall-street-to-astoria-ferry-guide/) - As part of Open House New York Weekend, we have created this special guide highlighting architecture, industry, and history along the Astoria Route of the NYC Ferry. Download this PDF guide and visit ferry.nyc to get updated schedules and info, and check out the rest of our OHNY 2020 programming. >> View PDF guide // Download
- [Walking the Brooklyn Navy Yard Perimeter | Self-Guided Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-perimeter/) - As part of Open House New York Weekend, we have created this map to guide you around the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the surrounding neighborhoods to explore the history, architecture, and food of this landmark of Brooklyn. Download this PDF guide and check out the rest of our OHNY 2020 programming. >> View PDF guide //
- [Open House New York at Brooklyn Navy Yard's Dry Dock 1 | Episode 151](https://turnstiletours.com/open-house-new-york-at-brooklyn-navy-yards-dry-dock-1/) - Celebrate Open House New York Weekend by joining us for a live virtual visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard's historic Dry Dock No. 1. Built in 1851, this New York City landmark is the third-oldest naval dry dock in the country, and it is still used for ship repair today. We will discuss its fascinating
- [Staten Island's Freight Rail: Back from the Brink with Don Lotz | Episode 156](https://turnstiletours.com/staten-islands-freight-rail-back-from-the-brink-with-don-lotz/) - Because New York City lacks any freight rail crossing of the Hudson River, Staten Island is the lone borough with direct access to ports and rail lines west of the Hudson. Today the rail and container facilities there are vital to the port's operations, but in the 1990s, this link was lost. Don Lotz, retired
- [Chef Baobao's Larb Isan | Thai Food in America Recipes](https://turnstiletours.com/chef-baobaos-larb-isan/) - 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 6, "The Future of Thai Cuisine." Estimated cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients: Ground pork or chicken 1 cup Oyster sauce 1 tbsp Fish sauce 2
- [Chef Kasem's Lobster Tom Yum | Thai Food in America Recipes](https://turnstiletours.com/chef-kasems-lobster-tom-yum/) - 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 Food in America series, episode 6, "The Future of Thai Cuisine." Don't be intimidated! Chef Kasem will walk you through breaking down the lobster, and
- [Potatoes: Digging in the Dirt with Agronomist Bob Leiby | Virtual Program | Episode 154](https://turnstiletours.com/potatoes-digging-in-the-dirt-with-agronomist-bob-leiby/) - Potatoes are a staple of the American diet, and a lot of them grow within commuting distance of New York City. On this program, we will connect with Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, where Bob Leiby, an agronomist for the Pennsylvania Cooperative Potato Growers, joins us to discuss what goes into producing potatoes, the challenges of climate
- [Permits and Precarity: Navigating NYC's Street Vending Regulations | Episode 155](https://turnstiletours.com/permits-and-precarity-navigating-nycs-street-vending-regulations-video/) - Due to the precarious nature of their business, New York City street vendors’ livelihoods are dependent on knowing and exercising their rights. In this virtual program, we will look at examples that illustrate how vendors navigate the city’s legal and regulatory environment, including the complex permitting process. We also examine how street vendors have engaged,
- [Exploring the East River from Wall Street to Astoria | Episode 157](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-east-river-from-wall-street-to-astoria/) - Take a virtual ride with us on the Astoria route of the NYC Ferry. We will board at Wall Street, and on this one-hour ride, we will examine the historical buildings along the waterfront of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, and learn about things to do at each of the ferry's stops. We will stop by Wallabout
- [Listening to WWII: Voices from the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 159](https://turnstiletours.com/listening-to-wwii/) - On the eve of Veterans Day, join us as we explore Brooklyn’s homefront during World War II through the experiences of those who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Center for Brooklyn History archivists Amy Lau and Mary Mann team up with Turnstile Tours’ Andrew Gustafson to lead us on an intimate journey that weaves
- [Veterans Day in Prospect Park: Commemorating the Great War | Episode 160](https://turnstiletours.com/veterans-day-in-prospect-park/) - More than 2,800 Brooklynites were killed in World War I, and Prospect Park quickly became one of the borough's key points of remembrance and commemoration. On this virtual walking tour for Veterans Day, we will explore some of the memorial sites in the park and they people they memorialize, including the memorial trees along Prospect Park West,
- [Photographer Jonathan Atkin, the ShipShooter | Episode 163](https://turnstiletours.com/photographer-jonathan-atkin-the-shipshooter/) - Renowned nautical photographer Jonathan Atkin takes us on a high-flying tour of New York's working waterfront, which he often photographs from the air to capture container ships, cruise liners, military vessels, and any other type of working craft. For every shoot, Atkin must coordinate logistics among at least 40 people in a high value, high security setting
- [International Street Vendor Day Celebration | Episode 161](https://turnstiletours.com/international-street-vendor-day-celebration/) - Join the Street Vendor Project, Queens Night Market, and Culinary Backstreets for a virtual event celebrating street food & culture in the most diverse community in the world. This virtual event will feature live interviews with vendors at their carts across the borough as they serve up cuisine from Bangladesh, China, and Mexico. You'll get the chance to test
- [Creating a New Kind of Theatre During the Pandemic with Artistic Stamp | Episode 162](https://turnstiletours.com/creating-a-new-kind-of-theatre-during-the-pandemic-with-artistic-stamp/) - Broadway is still shuttered, and theaters across the country are trying to figure out how to stay afloat during an age of social distancing. Shelley Butler and West Hyler are both acclaimed international theatre directors who have worked everywhere from Broadway to Denver to Bulgaria. Together they came up with a concept for a new
- [Thanksgiving Traditions of the Essex Market | Episode 164](https://turnstiletours.com/thanksgiving-traditions-of-the-essex-market/) - In preparation for Thanksgiving, join us for this interactive virtual program that will include live visits with vendors at the Lower East Side's Essex Market and Thanksgiving-themed trivia We will learn about the best places to get all the fixings for your Thanksgiving meal, and how different communities celebrate the holiday and infuse their own culture's
- [Stories with Children's Author Peter G. Reynolds | Episode 166](https://turnstiletours.com/stories-with-childrens-author-peter-g-reynolds/) - Join us for story-time with Canadian children’s author Peter G. Reynolds. Peter will read from his illustrated book Lost Hallway which follows the adventures of a young boy who discovers a magical world that contains all lost things, as well as selected stories from his podcast, "Musings and Other Nonsense." There will also be an “interactive story” with Peter inviting
- [Virtual Ride on the South Brooklyn Ferry | Episode 168](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-ride-on-the-south-brooklyn-ferry/) - Take a virtual ride with us on the South Brooklyn route of the NYC Ferry. We will board at Corlears Hook and examine the Brooklyn waterfront as we ride past DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Red Hook, Sunset Park, and finally end in Bay Ridge. Along the way, we will look back at the industrial history of
- [Holiday Plants at Urban Garden Center | Episode 169](https://turnstiletours.com/holiday-plants-at-urban-garden-center/) - Urban Garden Center has been a fixture of Spanish Harlem since the 1950’s, and today their beautiful shop occupies a massive two-block stretch along Park Avenue in the historic La Marqueta. We interviewed third-generation owner Dimitri Gatanas earlier this year to discuss spring plants, and now we’re back to discuss the plants that make the holiday season special. We’ll
- [“Pop-Surreal” Art and Tile Demo with Artist Ralph Almeida | Episode 171](https://turnstiletours.com/pop-surreal-tile-art-and-demo-with-artist-ralph-almeida/) - Originally from Connecticut and of Portuguese descent, New York-based artist Ralph Almeida creates colorful and imaginative “pop-surreal” works of ceramic and acrylic art that combine many influences – of indigenous and modern artists, the ancient and contemporary, nature and spirituality, and his own background as a textile designer. Ralph is perhaps best known for his painted decorative
- [Cass Gilbert's New York: Skyscrapers to Supply Depots | Episode 165](https://turnstiletours.com/cass-gilberts-new-york/) - November 24 marks the 161st birthday of the famed architect Cass Gilbert, and to celebrate, we are taking a deep dive into his body of work in New York City. We will be joined by Helen Post Curry, Gilbert's great-granddaughter, an expert on his life and work, and the founder of Woolworth Tours. Though born
- [Exploring Lake Baikal, Pearl of Siberia | Episode 167](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-lake-baikal-pearl-of-siberia/) - Lake Baikal is the world's deepest and oldest lake, containing nearly one-fifth of all the world's liquid fresh water. Located in Eastern Siberia, it is the heart of an ecologically and culturally diverse region. Turnstile Vice President Andrew Gustafson lived for more than a year in the nearby city of Irkutsk and has traveled around
- [Best New York City Books from Our Members](https://turnstiletours.com/best-new-york-city-books-from-our-members/) - At our December member happy hour, we invited participants to share some of their favorite books about New York City, in any genre – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, travel – and our members did not disappoint! Many showed off their extensive collections, and some even have entire shelves dedicated to nothing but books about the
- [Exploring the Morris Canal with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Episode 172](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-morris-canal-with-the-canal-society-of-new-jersey/) - For almost a century, New Jersey's Morris Canal fueled New York City with anthracite coal from northeast Pennsylvania, but now for nearly another century, the abandoned canal has been all but obliterated from the landscape. Join us as Tim Roth of the Canal Society of New Jersey helps uncover this lost canal, its innovative design, and its
- [Canners, Compost, Community, Art: A Special Peek Inside Sure We Can | Episode 175](https://turnstiletours.com/sure-we-can/) - You may have seen people collecting cans and bottles, dependent upon the few cent deposit for their livelihood. For the past 10 years, Sure We Can has provided a sustainable and safe space for this community to thrive. The non-profit organization is not only a recycling center, but also an art space, community center, garden, composting facility,
- [The Constellation Fire: The Accident That Changed the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 173](https://turnstiletours.com/the-constellaton-fire-the-accident-that-changed-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-video/) - On December 19, 1960, the Brooklyn Navy Yard suffered the worst accident in its history, a devastating fire aboard the USS Constellation that killed 50 workers. This fire was not only a tragedy for those who were killed and injured and their families, but it marked a turning point in the Yard's history that many
- [Virtual Walking Tour of DUMBO's Historic Architecture | Episode 178](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-walking-tour-of-dumbos-historic-architecture-video/) - The neighborhood today known as DUMBO was once the center for the agricultural hamlet of Brooklyn, and grew into a center of commerce, shipping, and manufacturing. On this virtual walk, we will look at several eras of the neighborhood's history reflected in its architecture. From the storage warehouses of the 1860s, to the reinforced concrete
- [Sustainable Manufacturing with Countertop Maker IceStone | Episode 181](https://turnstiletours.com/sustainable-manufacturing-with-countertop-maker-icestone/) - Since 2003, IceStone has been manufacturing countertops in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Made from 100% recycled glass, cement, and pigment, their unique designs and innovative production process have made IceStone a leading company in sustainable manufacturing. On this virtual tour, we will explore their products and process with Marketing Director Ashon McCollin, who will walk us through
- [Steamboat Savant: The Case of Samuel Morey v. Robert Fulton | Episode 182](https://turnstiletours.com/steamboat-savant-the-case-of-samuel-morey-v-robert-fulton/) - While New Yorkers laud native son Robert Fulton as the father of the steamboat, his achievements were built upon the work of many other innovators, among them Samuel Morey. Born in Connecticut and raised in New Hampshire, Morey was a talented engineer who designed and built a series of working paddlewheel steamboats, which became a
- [Safe Harbor? New York's Coastal Defense Forts from the Revolution to Today | Episode 180](https://turnstiletours.com/safe-harbor-new-yorks-coastal-defense-forts-from-the-revolution-to-today/) - At each of the water passages that lead to New York Harbor – from the Narrows to Hell Gate, Ambrose Channel to the Race – disused forts stand on either shore, once guarding these entrances. In this virtual program, we will explore the history of coastal fortifications in New York from the Revolutionary War to
- [Portal to Prospect Park: Restoring the Endale Arch | Episode 185](https://turnstiletours.com/portal-to-prospect-park-restoring-the-endale-arch/) - Prospect Park Alliance recently completed the restoration of the Endale Arch, one of the original portals to the park designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Get an insider's look at the restoration process, which required years of research, incredibly skilled craftspeople, and painstakingly detailed work to bring the arch back to its original splendor. We
- [Winter Birding with the Brooklyn Bird Club | Episode 186](https://turnstiletours.com/winter-birding-with-the-brooklyn-bird-club/) - While winter can seem like a slow time for birdwatching, many migratory species can be seen in New York only at this time of year. Join us for a discussion with experts from the Brooklyn Bird Club, where they will share some of the notable species currently found in the city, how to identify them, and
- [Arch Puppets: When Grand Army Plaza Had a Puppet Lending Library | Episode 183](https://turnstiletours.com/arch-puppets-when-grand-army-plaza-had-a-puppet-lending-library/) - Join us as we explore one of the most curious chapters in the history of Prospect Park, the four years (2005–2009) during which the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza housed a free lending library of puppets! Our guests will be master puppeteers Sara Peattie of the Puppeteers Cooperative and Theresa Linnihan,
- [Virtual Walking Tour of the Monuments of Manhattan's Battery | Episode 184](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-walking-tour-of-the-monuments-of-manhattans-battery/) - Over the past four centuries, the Battery at the tip of Manhattan has evolved, from a fortification to immigration station to park to National Monument. On this virtual walking tour, we will take advantage of the sweeping views of the harbor, share the history of Castle Clinton and the park, and explore some of its
- [Documenting the Gowanus Canal Cleanup with Nathan Kensinger | Episode 188](https://turnstiletours.com/documenting-the-gowanus-canal-cleanup-with-nathan-kensinger/) - In late 2020, as part of the long-overdue cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, dredging of the toxic sediment began, and photographer, filmmaker, and writer Nathan Kensinger has been there to document it. For more than a decade, Nathan has been recording images and stories of New York City's waterfront, with a special focus on the
- [Chinese New Year Traditions | Episode 193](https://turnstiletours.com/chinese-new-year-traditions/) - Celebrate the Chinese New Year with our team as we share the history, traditions, and foods of one of the world's most widely-celebrated holidays. While the actual New Year falls on February 12 this year, the celebrations stretch on for more than three weeks around the holiday. Our staff member Gina Gao will teach us
- [Downhill Skiing in America: Schussing Through History | Episode 187](https://turnstiletours.com/downhill-skiing-in-america-schussing-through-history/) - Hit the slopes with us as we explore the history of downhill skiing in the United States. We will look at the introduction of modern skiing by Norwegian immigrants, the evolution of Alpine skiing disciplines and equipment, and the explosion of the sport's popularity after World War II, thanks to veterans of the famed 10th
- [Pizza On the Go: Pizza Trucks with Scott Wiener | Episode 190](https://turnstiletours.com/pizza-on-the-go-pizza-trucks-with-scott-wiener-video/) - We are teaming up with our friend and renowned pizza expert Scott Wiener from Scott's Pizza Tours to explore the world of mobile pizza and discuss the history and culture of pizza on the street with some special guests. We will be joined by Ernie Wong of Shanghai Mobile Kitchen Solutions, one of the city's leading fabricators of
- [Staying Afloat During COVID-19: Three Stories from the Brooklyn Waterfront](https://turnstiletours.com/staying-afloat-during-covid-19-three-stories-from-the-brooklyn-waterfront/) - The Brooklyn waterfront is blessed with many cultural institutions, but three of the most unique are led by three dynamic cultural entrepreneurs. The Brooklyn waterfront is richer because of Andrew Gustafson, Carolina Salguero, and David Sharps, who lead Turnstile Tours, PortSide NewYork, and the Waterfront Museum, respectively. Join the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center for a
- [Virtual Harbor Tour with Classic Harbor Line | Episode 192](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-harbor-tour-with-classic-harbor-line-video/) - Join us for another virtual boat tour, this time aboard a beautiful motor yacht with our friends at Classic Harbor Line. Starting at Chelsea Piers, we will head down the Hudson, past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and around the northern Upper Bay. Along the way, we will discuss the evolution of the skylines
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Birthday: Celebrating 220 Years of Industry and Innovation | Episode 194](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yards-birthday-celebrating-220-years-of-industry-and-innovation/) - February 23 marks 220 years since the founding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but 2021 also marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, the non-profit organization that manages the city-owned industrial park. In this birthday celebration, we will look back at the decades-long transformation of the Yard from a
- [Black Sailors and Shipworkers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1866–1966 | Episode 195](https://turnstiletours.com/black-sailors-and-shipworkers-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-1866-1966/) - The celebrate Black History Month and the 220th birthday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we are looking at the obstacles and opportunities that Black people encountered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from the end of the Civil War through the Yard's closure a century later. The program will examine the long history of African-Americans in
- [Delaware & Raritan Canal / Camden & Amboy RR with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Episode 198](https://turnstiletours.com/delaware-raritan-canal-camden-amboy-railroad-with-the-canal-society-of-new-jersey/) - The Canal Society of New Jersey returns to our virtual program as Joe Macasek will share the history of the Delaware & Raritan Canal. While George Macculloch was working to complete his Morris Canal across the highlands of New Jersey, farther south men like Robert Stockton and Robert Stevens competed for control of a route across the narrow waist
- [The Other Dutch in Our Region | Episode 196](https://turnstiletours.com/the-other-dutch-in-our-region-video/) - Take a short trip west of New York City to explore a little-known and much misunderstood language and culture: the Pennsylvania Dutch, who aren't Dutch at all but German. Educator and entertainer Keith Brintzenhoff takes us beyond pork and sauerkraut, hex signs and distelfinks, to learn about this German immigrant community, efforts to preserve its endangered language,
- [Chocolate History of Brooklyn | Episode 197](https://turnstiletours.com/chocolate-history-of-brooklyn/) - Food manufacturing has been a cornerstone of Brooklyn's manufacturing economy for 150 years. Not only was the borough was home to some of the largest chocolate and confectionary makers in the country, but its port brought the tropical ingredients from around the globe. We will discuss some of the large and small chocolate makers that
- [Around the World in One Kitchen with Brian Hoffman | Episode 201](https://turnstiletours.com/around-the-world-in-one-kitchen-with-brian-hoffman/) - Brian and his son Sam have set an ambitious goal: to make a traditional dish from every country in the world. They've been making their way through the countries alphabetically and documenting their process in a wonderful video series featuring cooking demos, insights on ingredients and culinary traditions, and of course, Sam's taste test. Join us a for
- [Exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives | Episode 203](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-archives/) - As both an historic site and an active industrial park, with buildings and infrastructure spanning nearly 200 years, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is literally made up of layers of history. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives serves the dual function of documenting and preserving the Yard's history, while also providing historical engineering and architectural documentation that is critical
- [Where is Pete Panto? Corruption and Crusaders on NYC's Waterfront | Episode 202](https://turnstiletours.com/where-is-pete-panto-corruption-and-crusaders-on-nycs-waterfront/) - New York City's working waterfront has been widely associated with crime and corruption at least since On The Waterfront hit movie screens in 1954, but the story goes back further. Nathan Ward, author of Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront and CUNY scholar Joseph Sciorra join us to reveal the story of Pete Panto, a longshoreman who
- [Ships, Shanties, and the Shamrock: Brooklyn's 19th Century Irish Waterfront | Episode 199](https://turnstiletours.com/ships-shanties-and-the-shamrock-brooklyns-19th-century-irish-waterfront-video/) - On March 17, 1863, the gunboat Shamrock was launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an event attended by more than 5,000 onlookers and tremendous fanfare. The christening of this ship was meant to recognize the contributions of Irish troops to the Union cause, but it also represented a watershed moment during the ascendancy of the Irish in
- [Virtual Walk of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Perimeter | Episode 204](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-walk-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-perimeter/) - Explore the neighborhoods surrounding the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including Vinegar Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Williamsburg, on this walk around the Yard's long perimeter. We will explore connections between the Yard and the surrounding communities, including a peek at the landmark Commandant's House, the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, and other
- [How World War I Changed the Way New Yorkers Eat | Episode 206](https://turnstiletours.com/how-world-war-i-changed-the-way-new-yorkers-eat/) - April 6 marks the 104th anniversary of America's entry into World War I, but the impacts of this global conflict were already being felt in New York City. Starting in 1914, panicked markets, inefficient infrastructure, and marauding U-boats caused price shocks and shortages, and the war led directly to the creation of new modes of
- [Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks: Documentary and Discussion](https://turnstiletours.com/olmsted-and-americas-urban-parks/) - April 26 is Frederick Law Olmsted's birthday, and for his 199th, the National Association of Olmsted Parks is kicking off a yearlong celebration as we approach his bicentennial in 2022. The first event is a panel discussion of Rebecca Messner's 2011 documentary Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks (which prominently features Prospect Park) with TIME Magazine’s Justin Worland; Dr.
- [Great Trees of New York with Allison C. Meier | Episode 210](https://turnstiletours.com/great-trees-of-new-york-with-allison-c-meier/) - Celebrate Earth Day with some of New York City's oldest and most beautiful trees. Six years ago, writer Allison C. Meier set out to visit and learn about each of NYC Parks' official "Great Trees," and she turned her exploration of these august arbors into her recently-published The Great Trees of New York Map. Join our conversation with
- [Virtual Tour of Upper Manhattan Waterways with Classic Harbor Line | Episode 207](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-tour-of-upper-manhattan-waterways-with-classic-harbor-line/) - Join us for another virtual boat tour aboard a beautiful motor yacht with our friends at Classic Harbor Line. This time we will be heading north, exploring the very northern tip of Manhattan. We will get beautiful views of the Palisades and George Washington Bridge, then tuck inside the narrow confines of the Harlem River and
- [Spring Planting in Prospect Park | Episode 213](https://turnstiletours.com/spring-planting-in-prospect-park/) - On this virtual walk, we will join Prospect Park Alliance’s gardeners for a tour of their work doing spring plantings around the Lakeside section of the park, including on the intensive green roof garden atop the LeFrak Center skating rink. Corbin Laedlein, Lakeside Lead EcoZone Gardener for the Alliance, will walk us through the landscape
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Virtual Artists’ Studio Visits | Episode 214](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-virtual-artists-studio-visits/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard recently launched a public art exhibit with the theme Atmosphere for Invention, which reflects both the site’s history and its inventive spirit today. This live virtual program will visit the studios of artists Jackie Meier, Paul Campbell, and Tracy Wuischpard, who will be joined by curator Carli Beseau, and they will
- [The World in a Box: The 65th Anniversary of Containerized Shipping with Marc Levinson | Episode 211](https://turnstiletours.com/the-world-in-a-box-the-65th-anniversary-of-containerized-shipping-with-marc-levinson-video/) - On April 26, 1956 an oil tanker customized to carry standardized metal crates left Port Newark, NJ for Houston, TX, marking the first commercially successful containerized shipment. Over the next 30 years, containerized cargo would come to dominate the shipping industry and create a new global economy. Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping
- [Heartlands, Chokepoints, and Conflict Zones: How Geopolitics Maps the World | Episode 212](https://turnstiletours.com/heartlands-chokepoints-and-conflict-zones-how-geopolitics-maps-the-world/) - Maps hold the power to organize and explain the world beyond what we can observe with our own eyes, making them extremely powerful political tools. Maps that express a geopolitical vision of how the world works (or should work) have been hugely influential in shaping military strategy, international relations, and public opinion. In this virtual
- [Exploring the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 215](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-the-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Completed in 1919, the Brooklyn Army Terminal is a marvel of architecture and engineering. On this virtual tour, we will examine its design and construction during World War I, its 47-year service as a military supply base, and its reinvention as a hub for industry, manufacturing, and technology today. We will spend time in the
- [Renovation and Reinvention of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Building 127 | Episode 217](https://turnstiletours.com/renovation-and-reinvention-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yards-building-127/) - For NYC x Design Architecture Day, we're taking a closer look at one of the most recent adaptive reuse projects of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 127. Constructed in 1904 for fabricating wooden boats, the 95,000-square-foot building recently underwent a full gut renovation, and its high ceilings, large windows, and uncolumned spaces made it ideal for repurposing
- [Behind the Build: Bednark Studio | Episode 219](https://turnstiletours.com/behind-the-build-bednark-studio/) - Celebrate NYC X DESIGN Interior Design Day with a virtual visit to Bednark Studio, a vertically-integrated design and fabrication company that specializes in retail environments, experiential marketing, and architectural millwork. Based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bednark is a custom fabricator with manufacturing capabilities in wood, plastic, metal, print, and integrated lighting. On this virtual tour, we will
- [Made in NY Campus at Bush Terminal Virtual Tour | Episode 218](https://turnstiletours.com/made-in-ny-campus-at-bush-terminal-virtual-tour/) - Since its founding over a century ago, Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn has been a center of industry and innovation. Today, the city-owned site is being transformed into a campus for the Made in NY initiative to support cornerstone industries of the city's economy: fashion and film. On this virtual tour, we will learn how the
- [Barnet or Bust: Canals on the Connecticut River | Episode 221](https://turnstiletours.com/barnet-or-bust/) - Running from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound, the Connecticut River cuts through the heart of New England. And for a period of about 40 years, a concerted effort was made to turn the rather wild and narrow river into a transportation superhighway to rival the Hudson. Between 1792 and 1835, seven canals were
- [Exploring Staten Island's Olmsted-Beil House | Episode 226](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-staten-islands-olmsted-beil-house/) - 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. While Central Park, Prospect Park, and countless other parks across America display Olmsted's genius, beginning in 1848, this farmstead is where he developed his professional
- [Housing for All: A History of Social Housing in NYC | Episode 224](https://turnstiletours.com/housing-for-all-video/) - As we approach New York City's primary elections on June 22, housing, as always, is a key issue on the ballot. So we are looking back at the history of social housing in New York – not just the city's vast NYCHA public housing system, but also other forms of government and philanthropic intervention that
- [Race, Riots, and the Right to Learn: Black Education in Antebellum New York | Episode 227](https://turnstiletours.com/race-riots-and-the-right-to-learn/) - The formal education of Black New Yorkers began with the Manumission Society's African Free Schools, which first opened in 1787. Though the city was at the forefront of Black education, it would take decades to break down barriers to higher education, and schools, students, teachers, and benefactors were under threat of racial violence. This virtual
- [Machines and Tools: Printing Technology with Woodside Press | BCAP at Home](https://turnstiletours.com/machines-and-tools-printing-technology-with-woodside-press/) - How did people print newspapers and books before the age of computers? Join this virtual program to learn about the history of printing technology with Woodside Press at the Brooklyn Navy Yard! We’ll virtually visit their workshop, which is like stepping back in time, and see how they use tools and machinery that are over
- [Titanic Homecoming: A Quiet Sea Project with Charlie Deroko | Episode 228](https://turnstiletours.com/titanic-homecoming-video/) - In 1998, a 15-ton, 26-foot-by-12-foot section of Titanic’s hull was salvaged from the wreck. Since its raising, this powerful remnant of that ship of near-mythic status has been on exhibit at the MGM Luxor Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Charlie Deroko, marine surveyor and retired waterfront director for the South Street Seaport Museum, joins
- [Sonic Boom and Bust: Concorde in New York | Episode 230](https://turnstiletours.com/sonic-boom-and-bust/) - 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 successful, it will begin the first supersonic passenger service since the retirement of Concorde in 2003. Though a monumental engineering achievement, Concorde was always a
- [Exploring Bush Terminal Park | Episode 229](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-bush-terminal-park/) - Built on the footprint of the piers and warehouses of the historic Bush Terminal, Bush Terminal Park provided much-needed green space and waterfront access to the Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood when it opened in 2014. Join us for a virtual walk through the 22-acre park, which offers remnants of the site's maritime and manufacturing history, unique engineered
- [Ship Spotting at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | BCAP at Home](https://turnstiletours.com/ship-spotting-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - New York Harbor is bustling with boats every day, making it perfect for ship spotting, a hobby that involves seeing, learning about, and tracking ships as they come and go. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a great place to see all kinds of ships, including ferries, fireboats, tugboats, and even oyster tenders! During this program,
- [Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Russ & Daughters' Appetizing Factory | BCAP at Home](https://turnstiletours.com/behind-the-scenes-tour-of-russ-daughters-appetizing-factory/) - Take a behind-the-scenes virtual tour of Russ & Daughters' Appetizing Factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard! We'll hear the story of how this iconic New York business was started over a hundred years ago by a pushcart peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side and step inside their bakery to see how they
- [Capturing Food Carts with Photographer Maxwell Schiano | Episode 233](https://turnstiletours.com/capturing-food-carts-with-photographer-maxwell-schiano/) - Food carts are an iconic image of New York City that most New Yorkers pass every day. Even if they stop to enjoy their food, not many take in the beauty and visual appeal of food carts – that's why photographer Maxwell Schiano published a 64-page zine of his photography celebrating these icons, New York City Vibe, Volume
- [Famous and Forgotten: Street Names of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 232](https://turnstiletours.com/famous-and-forgotten-street-names-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Behind the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard lies a network of streets that are a mystery to most New Yorkers. Named for naval heroes, shipyard operations, and even a numbered grid, these streets trace the Yard's history from the War of 1812 through World War II. While new attention has been given to how
- [The Civil War and Prospect Park | Episode 234](https://turnstiletours.com/the-civil-war-and-prospect-park/) - Did you know that Prospect Park has a piece of Gettysburg's famed Little Round Top? And one of the oldest statues of Abraham Lincoln in America? While memorials to the Civil War are prominent features of the park, the war itself also shaped its design. ​Co-designer Frederick Law Olmsted spent the war directing the US
- [Rockaway Ferry Virtual Tour | Episode 235](https://turnstiletours.com/rockaway-ferry-virtual-tour/) - The fastest way to the beach is on the NYC Ferry, so join us for another virtual boat tour as we cruise the Lower New York Bay. We will pick up the ferry in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, then make our way under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, past Coney Island, and down to the Rockaways. Along the way,
- [Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era | Episode 239](https://turnstiletours.com/tide-mills-green-energy-from-the-colonial-era/) - 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 marshes across New York's vast estuary into millponds to run machinery as the water ebbed. In this virtual program, Brad Vogel of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe
- [Cross Country on a Citi Bike: The True Story of an Adventurous New Yorker | Episode 240](https://turnstiletours.com/cross-country-on-a-citi-bike/) - Take a lunch trip from NYC to LA to Tulsa and back with tour guide and travel writer Jeffrey Tanenhaus. In 2015, he took a Citi Bike and pedaled it cross-country, a wild ride chronicled in his new book, West of Wheeling: How I Quit My Job, Broke the Law & Biked to a Better Life. Our
- [Ships of Stone: Concrete Shipbuilding from the World Wars to Today | Episode 236](https://turnstiletours.com/ships-of-stone-concrete-shipbuilding-from-the-world-wars-to-today/) - Concrete may seem like an odd material for shipbuilding, but during World War I, severe shortages of steel led to this innovation. Devised by Norwegian immigrants the Fougner brothers, they built one of the first such ships in the US at their shipyard in Flushing, Queens. The technology reached its apex during World War II,
- [Climate Change Conversation with Prospect Park Alliance Forest Ecologist Howard Goldstein | Episode 242](https://turnstiletours.com/climate-change-conversation-with-prospect-park-alliance-forest-ecologist-howard-goldstein/) - Join the conversation during Climate Week NYC with Prospect Park Alliance's Forest Ecologist Howard Goldstein. Howard will share insights on the unique challenges the part faces as the borough's only forest, and what impact climate change is having the composition of the forest, the biodiversity that it supports, and the pests that threaten its health
- [A Brief History of Wire Rope: Re-Rigging the Peking  | Episode 241](https://turnstiletours.com/a-brief-history-of-wire-rope-re-rigging-the-peking/) - Wire rope helped build many New York City landmarks in the nineteenth century, most notably the Brooklyn Bridge, but it quickly became an essential tool in the maritime industry as well. Marine surveyor Charlie Deroko returns to our virtual programs with an engineer's perspective on the history of wire rope and a mechanics' view of its use
- [Olmsted, Public Health, and Urban Planning with Olmsted-Beil House | Episode 244](https://turnstiletours.com/olmsted-public-health-and-urban-planning-with-olmsted-beil-house/) - Join Turnstile Tours and the Friends of Olmsted-Beil House for a virtual panel discussion to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Frederick Law Olmsted's report for the Staten Island Improvement Commission, a comprehensive plan for the island's growth and development. We will hear unique perspectives about Staten Island in the late 1800s, Olmsted’s public health recommendations,
- [The Tideshift Project: Session 1 with the Waterfront Museum | Episode 246](https://turnstiletours.com/the-tideshift-project-with-the-waterfront-museum/) - 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 series will record stories from waterfront workers who have handled freight in and near Red Hook, and from their descendants. This first event featured interviews
- [Brooklyn Army Terminal Virtual Tour for Open House New York  | Episode 248](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-army-terminal-virtual-tour-for-open-house-new-york/) - Take a virtual visit to one of the most popular sites of Open House New York Weekend, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and join us for a live exploration of the site’s architecture, history, and industry. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and built in 1918–1919, the Terminal is an architectural and engineering marvel that served as a
- [Elvis Has Left The Country: Pvt. Presley and the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 243](https://turnstiletours.com/elvis-has-left-the-country-pvt-presley-and-the-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - On September 22, 1958, 23-year-old US Army Private Elvis Presley boarded troop transport USS General George M. Randall at the Brooklyn Army Terminal to begin his 17 months of military service in Germany. Though everything Elvis did was a media event, he tried his best to be just another G.I. In this virtual program, we will follow Elvis' footsteps
- [The Original Six: Repurposing America's Naval Shipyards | Episode 245](https://turnstiletours.com/the-original-six-repurposing-americas-naval-shipyards/) - At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the US Navy established six naval shipyards to build, repair, and outfit the fleet. From the "original six"—Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Washington—the public shipyard system would expand over the next 150 years, peaking at 11 in 1943. Today, only four Naval Shipyards still exist, but as
- [Brooklyn and the Navy Armed Guard | Episode 247](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-and-the-navy-armed-guard/) - Celebrate Navy Day with a discussion of one of the least-known units of World War II, the Navy Armed Guard. Serving in the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic, these sailors served in small detachments aboard merchant ships manning the deck guns. This virtual program will be hosted from the Sunset Park waterfront, where many sailors
- [Beyond the Ferry: Staten Island's North Shore | Episode 250](https://turnstiletours.com/beyond-the-ferry-staten-islands-north-shore/) - On the Staten Island Ferry's 115th birthday, we take a tour of the island's North Shore waterfront. Seen by Staten Islanders as culturally distinct from the neighborhoods south of the expressway, the North Shore is home to the borough's cultural and industrial centers, interspersed with forgotten villages and dilapidated mansions. But even here, gentrification and
- [Virtual Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Open House New York  | Episode 249](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-inside-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-for-open-house-new-york/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the hub for Open House New York Weekend, with food trucks, pop-up eateries, outdoor activations, and tours. We will be hosting a series of virtual tours on the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Instagram Live @bklynnavyyard starting at 12pm with a tour of the food trucks that will be setting up shop at
- [Economy, Access, and Resilience: Staten Island's North Shore with the Waterfront Alliance, Part 2 | Episode 254](https://turnstiletours.com/economy-access-and-resilience-staten-islands-north-shore-with-the-waterfront-alliance/) - In the second installment of this series on the history and ecology of Staten Island's North Shore, we are joined by Karen Imas, Senior Director of Programs at the Waterfront Alliance to discuss the organization's recent study of island's northeast shore, stretching from the Verrazzano Bridge to Stapleton. This study takes a community-centered approach to dealing with issues
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 Turns 10 | Episode 252](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-center-at-bldg-92-turns-10/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 opened its doors on Veterans Day 2011, 11/11/11, making it the first publicly-accessible building at the Yard in over a century, and the first in a series of projects that have pushed back Yard's walls. BLDG 92 was created to be the public gateway, containing not only the
- [Soundview Ferry Virtual Tour | Episode 253](https://turnstiletours.com/soundview-ferry-virtual-tour/) - Take a ride to the Bronx on this virtual tour of the Soundview Route on NYC Ferry, as we discuss important landmarks of NYC's history of housing, food, and exclusion. Starting from Wall Street, we will cruise under the iconic East River bridges, stop in Stuyvesant Cove, and make our way up the river before
- [Calyo's New York: Vistas and Vendors of the mid-1800s | Episode 251](https://turnstiletours.com/calyos-new-york-vistas-and-vendors-of-the-mid-1800s-video/) - In 1835, Naples-born painter Nicolino Calyo arrived in New York, and over the next 20 years, he produced a body of work that captured both the grandeur and minutia of city life. An experienced landscape painter, one of his first works was also one of the grandest—a series of paintings of the great fire of
- [Exploring New York City's Stair Streets with Michael Cairl | Episode 255](https://turnstiletours.com/exploring-new-york-citys-stair-streets-with-michael-cairl/) - For the past three years, our friend Michael Cairl has been recovering from a stroke that limited his mobility and transformed how he gets around the city. As part of his recovery, Michael has been exploring the city in new ways and documenting it on his blog, On Foot, On Wheels. On foot, he has been
- [SS Great Republic and the Great Turkey-Lift of 1944](https://turnstiletours.com/ss-great-republic-and-the-great-turkey-lift-of-1944/) - On Thanksgiving, we're looking back at an unsung hero of the holiday during World War II, a merchant ship called SS Great Republic.
- [Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt Closing Ceremony | Virtual Program](https://turnstiletours.com/street-vendor-scavenger-hunt-closing-ceremony/) - For the past month, teams have been exploring New York City completing scavenger hunt challenges all about street vending. With over 100 teams competing, it has been an intense race, as teams had to complete 40 challenges while also raising money for the Street Vendor Project. Join us for our closing ceremonies as we look at
- [From Wallabout Bay to Pearl Harbor: Brooklyn Navy Yard Ships and Shipbuilders | Episode 256](https://turnstiletours.com/from-wallabout-bay-to-pearl-harbor-brooklyn-navy-yard-ships-and-shipbuilders/) - To mark the 80th anniversary since the attack on Pearl Harbor, this virtual program will examine the connections between the fleet in Hawaii in 1941 and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We will look at the histories of the eight ships built at the Yard that were moored in Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning, including the
- [Calvert Vaux: Architect for the People | Episode 257](https://turnstiletours.com/calvert-vaux-architect-for-the-people/) - Though often overlooked due to his association with Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux is an important figure in American architecture in his own right. A classically-trained architect, talented artist, and collaborator with landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing, he had already done major projects before working with Olmsted on Central Park, and would continue to design
- [A Staten Island Farmer's Travels Abroad with Justin Martin | Episode 260](https://turnstiletours.com/a-staten-island-farmers-travels-abroad-with-justin-martin/) - 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 at Tosomock Farm on Staten Island, and his subsequent writings about these travels. Olmsted departed from Staten Island for a walking tour of England in
- [A Concrete History of Brooklyn | Episode 258](https://turnstiletours.com/a-concrete-history-of-brooklyn/) - Concrete is the world's most ubiquitous building material, and many important milestones of its development took place in Brooklyn. In this virtual program, we will examine concrete's history, production, and chemistry, then discuss some of the landmark structures that drove the development of steel-reinforced concrete in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From Gowanus
- [What Is a Public Market? | Episode 259](https://turnstiletours.com/what-is-a-public-market-video/) - Public markets are one of the foundational institutions of urban life. The Project for Public Spaces defines public markets as indoor or outdoor markets that "operate in public space, serve locally owned and operated businesses, and have public goals." They not only a place of commerce, or a tourist attraction, but a place for convening and
- [Love in the Archives | Episode 261](https://turnstiletours.com/love-in-the-archives/) - Celebrate Valentine's Day as we share some of our favorite love stories from history from the places that we work. We will share long-distance love letters from World War II, milestone weddings in Prospect Park, workplace romances at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and people who found their loves in public markets. We will share artifacts,
- [Celebrate Black History and Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 263](https://turnstiletours.com/celebrate-black-history-and-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - 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. Join this panel discussion as we examine the vital role played by Black sailors and shipworkers since 1801, and how the Yard has been an
- [New York City's Lost Canals | Episode 264](https://turnstiletours.com/new-york-citys-lost-canals/) - 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 had its own internal network of lesser-known canals, some filled in, some never built, and some still with us today. As part of our ongoing
- [Inside Staten Island Ferry John F. Kennedy with Engineer Angus McCamy | Episode 262](https://turnstiletours.com/inside-staten-island-ferry-john-f-kennedy-with-engineer-angus-mccamy/) - Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, and Paul Italia made waves last month when they bought retired Staten Island Ferry John F. Kennedy. While we don't know where this future comedy club will dock, few people know the inside of the boat as well as Angus McCamy. This native New Yorker and licensed captain and engineer reveals the
- [Trains, Transit, and Tunnels: Understanding the Bay Ridge Branch and the Interborough Express | Episode 265](https://turnstiletours.com/trains-transit-and-tunnels-understanding-the-bay-ridge-branch-and-the-interborough-express/) - 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 critical link in the freight rail network of New York Harbor and Long Island, carrying goods like construction materials, chemicals, and beer, and connecting with
- [CUNY TV: Brooklyn Navy Yard | DiverseCITY](https://turnstiletours.com/cuny-tv-brooklyn-navy-yard-diversecity/) - 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 coastal complex’s growth. The yard’s deep historical connection to World War II that many might not know. What the city’s largest Spanish speaking television station sacrificed to survive. Then CUNY’s effort to assist Hollywood with its diversity push.
- [(Re)connecting Brooklyn's History: Brooklyn's Homefront during World War II with Brooklyn Public Library](https://turnstiletours.com/brooklyns-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 millions of service members off to the front lines, Brooklyn was arguably one of the most important communities in waging and winning the war. Using
- [OLMSTED 200: Parks in Conversation | Virtual Tour of Prospect Park and Central Park | Episode 269](https://turnstiletours.com/parks-in-conversation-virtual-tour-of-central-park-and-prospect-park-tuesday-april-12/) - 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 decade apart, Central and Prospect Park share many similarities, but also reflect Olmsted’s evolution as a park designer and his lasting influence on landscape design
- [My Little Chickpea: An Exploration of Falafel | Episode 270](https://turnstiletours.com/my-little-chickpea-an-exploration-of-falafel/) - 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, healthy, and delicious. On this hunger inducing virtual program, our resident food expert Brian Hoffman will explore all aspects of this humble little fritter from
- [Barge Family Reunion Celebration: The Tideshift Project, Session 2 | Episode 274](https://turnstiletours.com/barge-family-reunion-celebration-the-tideshift-project-session-2/) - 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 Tideshift Project, a three-part series of oral history collecting events presented live, virtually, and in person aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad No. 79 wooden
- [Polar Bears & Bolsheviks: American Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920 | Episode 271](https://turnstiletours.com/polar-bears-bolsheviks-american-intervention-in-the-russian-civil-war/) - 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 of American soldiers, sailors, and railway workers were sent from the meat grinder of the Western Front to the icebox of Siberia and the Russian
- [May Day: Labor History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 272](https://turnstiletours.com/may-day-labor-history-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - 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 of ships to keep them in port. In New York, skilled shipworkers organized some of the earliest trade associations, and they agitated for steady wages
- [St. George Ferry Virtual Tour | Virtual Program | Episode 273](https://turnstiletours.com/st-george-ferry-virtual-tour/) - 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 Javits Center to Battery Park City to St. George as we explore the highlights of the commute on both sides of the Hudson River and
- [PRESS RELEASE: Turnstile Tours Launches New Street Food Tour of Jackson Heights, Queens](https://turnstiletours.com/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.
- [NSMBL: Planning a trip to New York? Then this Food Cart Tour in Queens is highly recommended](https://turnstiletours.com/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.
- [Fleet Week New York Celebration | Episode 275](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-new-york-celebration/) - 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 participating ships, among them two large Navy ships, four training vessels, two Coast Guard cutters, and a Royal Navy icebreaker, and the opportunities to visit
- [Fleet Week New York is Back! Guide to 2022 Ships](https://turnstiletours.com/fleet-week-new-york-is-back-guide-to-2022-ships/) - After a two-year hiatus, the fleet is returning to New York, though with a somewhat smaller contingent. This year, Navy, Coast Guard, and Royal Navy ships will be gathering on Manhattan's West Side and at Staten Island's Stapleton Pier—no ships coming to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, unfortunately. And due to the schedule of the tides,
- [Boxed in Brooklyn: Robert Gair and the Packaging Revolution | Episode 276](https://turnstiletours.com/boxed-in-brooklyn-robert-gair-and-the-packaging-revolution/) - 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 into an empire of paper mills, box factories, printing plants, and even marketing and advertising arm—a vertically-integrated packaging company, based in today's DUMBO, Brooklyn. This
- [The Tideshift Project: Session 3 | Episode 277](https://turnstiletours.com/the-tideshift-project-session-3-free-virtual-program-sunday-july-25/) - 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 a three-part series of oral history collecting events presented live, virtually, and in person aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad No. 79 wooden lighterage barge
- [Frederick Law Olmsted: Designer of America & His Staten Island Roots | Episode 279](https://turnstiletours.com/frederick-law-olmsted-designer-of-america-his-staten-island-roots-free-virtual-program/) - 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 Renaissance-man Olmsted—writer, philosopher, social reformer, advocate for the preservation of natural scenery, and creator of some of the most beautiful public and private parks and
- [De Telegraaf: Up To Date in New York](https://turnstiletours.com/de-telegraaf-up-to-date-in-new-york/) - We will have lunch this time on the street. Walking, during a real Food Cart Tour in Midtown (bookable via turnstiletours.com). New York has a long history when it comes to street vending, and although everyone knows pretzels and hot dogs, there are carts selling dishes from around the world. Street food is one of the best kept secrets. It's not for nothing that a prestigious prize was handed out every year to the street vendor with the tastiest dishes. ...
- [Virtual Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Open House New York | Episode 278](https://turnstiletours.com/virtual-inside-industry-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-for-open-house-new-york-2/) - 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 series of virtual tours on the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Instagram Live @bklynnavyyard, featuring woodworking school Bien Hecho Academy, artist Nina Summer, non-profit Little Essentials, green
- [Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom with Sara Zewde | Episode 280](https://turnstiletours.com/finding-frederick-law-olmsted-in-cottons-kingdom-with-sara-zewde-2/) - 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 of landscape architecture. Between 1852 and 1857, while living at Staten Island's Tosomock Farm, Olmsted traveled extensively through the South, writing about slavery and the
- [Guide to the Ships of Fleet Week New York 2023](https://turnstiletours.com/guide-to-the-ships-of-fleet-week-new-york-2023/) - Fleet Week came early this year, as last week the city was visited by USS Cooperstown, which became the first US Navy ship commissioned in New York City since USS New York received that honor in 2009. Named for not just the village of Cooperstown, NY, the ship also honors the 70+ members of the
- [Turnstile's Guide to Open House New York Weekend 2023](https://turnstiletours.com/turnstiles-guide-to-open-house-new-york-weekend-2023/) - Open House New York Weekend (Oct 20–22) is just a few days away, and with over 330 partners participating this year, it's impossible to do it all. So we scoured the Weekend planner and highlighted some of our favorite spots. So don't be surprised if you see one of us there, leading a tour or
- [Meet Our Team: Carinn Candelaria](https://turnstiletours.com/meet-our-team-carinn-candelaria/) - Over the next several weeks, we will be sharing brief profiles about our wonderful and talented team at Turnstile Tours & Studio. First up is our Education Manager Carinn Candelaria, who joined Turnstile in 2022. Carinn, what is your role at Turnstile? I’m Turnstile’s Education Manager responsible for designing curriculum and leading educational programs at
- [The Bowery Boys: The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill](https://turnstiletours.com/the-bowery-boys-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-and-vinegar-hill/) - In this episode, Greg is joined by the amazing Andrew Gustafson from Turnstile Tours who unfurls the surprising history of the Navy Yard — through war and peace, through new technologies and aging infrastructure, through the lives of the men and women who built the yard’s reputation. And the story extends to the tiny neighborhood of Vinegar Hill, famed for its early 19th-century architecture and the mysterious mansion known as the Commandant’s House.
- [EF: A taste of everything New York City has to offer](https://turnstiletours.com/ef-a-taste-of-everything-new-york-city-has-to-offer/) - EF Explore America partners with Turnstile Tours to take students on a food cart tour and introduce them to working street vendors, discover new perspectives, and (literally) try something new. For Cindy VandenBosch, Founder & President of Turnstile Tours, the goal is to use food as common ground where people can connect.
- [Memorial Day Military History Tour of New York Harbor | Virtual Tour with Classic Harbor Line](https://turnstiletours.com/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 live streamed it! Watch the 2.5-hour tour, led by Andrew Gustafson and hosted by Ariel Viera of Urbanist: Exploring Cities. Starting from Chelsea Piers, this
- [AIANY Industrial Waterfront Tour to Freshkills Park | Virtual Tour with Classic Harbor Line](https://turnstiletours.com/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 the city's largest parks. Led by American Institute of Architects New York guide Andrew Gustafson and Freshkills Park Alliance staff member Andy Blancero, this tour
- [Meet Our Team: Brian Hoffman](https://turnstiletours.com/meet-our-team-brian-hoffman/) - Over the next several weeks, we will be sharing brief profiles about our wonderful and talented team at Turnstile Tours & Studio. Next up is our senior Food Tour Guide Brian Hoffman, who has been leading our Food Cart Tours since 2010. Brian also has an excellent food blog and ongoing video series, Eat This

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## Projects

- [Building Knowledge Networks to Increase Accessibility in Cultural Institutions](https://turnstiletours.com/project/building-knowledge-networks-to-increase-accessibility-in-cultural-institutions/) - While museums and cultural institutions have had a clear legal obligation to make their programs, services, and facilities accessible to people with disabilities for decades, educational and professional development opportunities for staff working in the realm of accessibility and inclusion are limited. Access staff may feel isolated within their own institutions, often finding themselves in
- [Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Accessibility and Visitor Engagement](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-botanic-garden-accessibility-and-visitor-engagement/) - Turnstile Studio was contracted by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to work with Education and Interpretation to conduct a series of training workshops, develop training tools and materials, and provide recommendations to further enhance accessibility and visitor engagement for both children and adults. This project involved two separate accessibility training workshops with staff, including K–12 instructors, Discovery Docents,
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: K-5 School Programs](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-navy-yard-k-5-school-programs/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard engaged Turnstile Tours & Studio in two separate consulting projects in 2022 and 2023 to develop, pilot, and evaluate two school programs for local elementary-aged students. In collaboration with Brooklyn Navy Yard staff, our team delivered the following: Outcomes-based logic models to clarify target audience, outcomes, and resources needed for both
- [Historic Hudson Valley: Virtual Field Trips](https://turnstiletours.com/project/historic-hudson-valley-virtual-field-trips/) - Historic Hudson Valley (HHV) engaged Turnstile Studio to provide technical and training support for the pre-existing virtual field trip Slavery in the Colonial North and for the roll out of a new virtual field trip called Invisible Women, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, respectively.
- [Open House New York: Public Engagement Guide](https://turnstiletours.com/project/open-house-new-york-public-engagement-guide/) - Turnstile Studio consulted with Open House New York in the summer of 2022 to develop a Public Engagement Guide for Weekend partners for Open House New York Weekend, an annual citywide festival where hundreds of organizations, businesses, and individuals provide free access for members of the public to unique behind-the-scenes experiences. The Public Engagement Guide
- [Maxo Vanka Murals: Interpretive Planning](https://turnstiletours.com/project/maxo-vanka-murals-interpretive-planning/) - Turnstile Studio produced an interpretive plan for the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka in the greater Pittsburgh area, which works to preserve and interpret historic murals inside an active Roman Catholic Church. The murals were painted by Croatian artist Maxo Vanka in 1937 and 1941 at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church,
- [Storm King Art Center: Hospitality and Accessibility](https://turnstiletours.com/project/storm-king-art-center-inclusive-hospitality-and-accessibility/) - Storm King engaged Turnstile Studio as a lead consultant to support a multiyear project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services that seeks to build the organization’s capacity to provide inclusive and accessible visitor experiences through professional development. As a first step, our team conducted an assessment that involved surveys and listening sessions
- [Expanding Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Welcome](https://turnstiletours.com/project/expanding-brooklyn-botanic-gardens-welcome/) - Turnstile was engaged by Brooklyn Botanic Garden to act as the lead consultant in the implementation of a four-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services titled “Expanding BBG’s Welcome,” which sought to build training capacity to make the Garden more accessible to people with disabilities. Turnstile conducted a baseline internal assessment of
- [Vendy Awards: Marketing Design](https://turnstiletours.com/project/vendy-awards-marketing-design/) - The Vendy Awards were an annual food festival and fundraiser held to support the Street Vendor Project, a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of New York City’s street vendor community. Turnstile’s design team, led by Andrew Gustafson, created the visual identity for the last two Vendys, in 2018 and 2019, and designed related printed and digital collateral, including
- [The Ringling: Accessibility Assessment](https://turnstiletours.com/project/the-ringling-accessibility-assessment/) - Turnstile Studio was commissioned to produce an assessment with recommendations and resources for increasing accessibility for all visitors at The Ringling’s 66-acre campus in Sarasota, Florida, including the Museum of Art, Circus Museum, Historic Asolo Theatre, Ca’ d’Zan mansion, and the Bayfront Gardens. The results of the assessment were informed by a review of visitor and training
- [Thai Select: Thai Food in America](https://turnstiletours.com/project/thai-select-thai-food-in-america/) - Building on Turnstile’s experience with food-focused tours and virtual programming, we were engaged by marketing and communications agency ELMNTL on behalf of Thai Select USA to produce two series of online programs about Thai cuisine and culture. Produced during the height of the pandemic in the fall of 2020, the first series “Thai Food in America,” featured certified Thai
- [St. Nick’s Alliance: Tour Consulting](https://turnstiletours.com/project/st-nicks-alliance-tour-consulting/) - During the spring of 2012, Turnstile Tours provided support to staff members at St. Nick’s Alliance to develop and offer a walking tour focused on sites of historical significance in Williamsburg, a neighborhood in North Brooklyn, that wove together stories of sites, residents, and the organization’s impact over time on issues related to affordable housing, crime, care
- [Singapore Tourism Board: Destination Experience Workshop](https://turnstiletours.com/project/singapore-tourism-board-destination-experience-workshop/) - Turnstile’s Andrew Gustafson was invited to attend a two-day workshop in Singapore hosted by the Tourism Board’s Tour & Industry Development team and attended by local tour operators, attractions, and guides. Andrew facilitated a workshop and presentation, “Developing Quality Tour Content,” on tour development, guide training, and effective visitor engagement techniques, and delivered the keynote address on
- [Singapore Tourism Board & National Heritage Board: Guided Tour Consulting](https://turnstiletours.com/project/singapore-tourism-board-national-heritage-board-guided-tour-consulting/) - Staff from Turnstile Tours and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum were invited to Singapore by the country’s Tourism Board, Association of Singapore Attractions, Workforce Development Agency, and the National Heritage Board to provide trainings and consultations on storytelling skills and developing more engaging, interactive guided tours for cultural institutions, tourist attractions, and tour companies. As part of a professional development series
- [Rochester Institute of Technology: Oral History in Museums and Public History](https://turnstiletours.com/project/rochester-institute-of-technology-oral-history-in-museums-and-public-history/) - Cindy VandenBosch was invited to speak with students and faculty in an undergraduate Oral History class in the Department of Museum Studies about Turnstile’s experience collecting, preserving, and utilizing oral history in the creation of tours, public programs, and online content. She spoke about her experience documenting stories of vendors and neighborhood residents in and
- [Olmsted-Beil House Virtual Programs](https://turnstiletours.com/project/olmsted-beil-house-virtual-programs/) - Turnstile provided technical assistance on the production of virtual programs for the Friends of Olmsted-Beil House, a nonprofit organization that is working to preserve and interpret the former home and grounds of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in Staten Island. The programs have included an on-site virtual tour of the park grounds and discussion on how Olmsted’s experience
- [NYC Museum Educators Roundtable: Oral History in a Public Context](https://turnstiletours.com/project/nyc-museum-educators-roundtable-oral-history-in-a-public-context/) - “Oral History in a Public Context: Fostering Human Connections with Broader Public Meanings” This conference session, organized by Cindy VandenBosch, included case study presentations and facilitated small group discussions to examine how oral history can be used effectively in a variety of museum-based projects, from apps to place-making activities, walking tours to educational programs, as a means
- [Neighborhood Women: Tour Consulting](https://turnstiletours.com/project/neighborhood-women-tour-consulting/) - Turnstile founder Cindy VandenBosch provided support to Neighborhood Women, a non-profit organization based in North Brooklyn, to help shape and develop a walking tour based on the stories of female community leaders as part of a place-marking initiative. Cindy provided feedback to the tour development team on techniques for incorporating personal stories within the context of larger neighborhood issues,
- [Humanities New York: Designing for Public Engagement](https://turnstiletours.com/project/humanities-new-york-designing-for-public-engagement/) - Turnstile hosted a two-part professional development workshop for three cohorts of Public Humanities Ph.D. Fellows at Humanities New York that explored the challenges and opportunities of creating publicly accessible resources and programming with community partners, informants, and collaborators. Using the Food Cart Tour as a common reference point, combined with a series of facilitated activities, workshop participants shared ideas,
- [Green-Wood Cemetery: Visitor Engagement Training Workshop and Resources](https://turnstiletours.com/project/green-wood-cemetery-visitor-engagement-training-workshop-and-resources/) - In the spring of 2017, Turnstile Studio was contracted by Green-Wood Cemetery to develop and conduct a customized professional development workshop for their tour guides and staff with a focus on techniques and best practices for providing an inclusive and engaging experience for all visitors. In addition to the training workshop, Turnstile’s team produced capacity-building resources for the
- [Four Freedoms Park: Social Welfare & the City Field Trip](https://turnstiletours.com/project/four-freedoms-park-social-welfare-the-city-field-trip/) - Turnstile Studio was selected by the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy to conduct supporting research for an educational program focusing on the history of social welfare in New York City. Using the landscape visible from the park, located on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in the East River, we identified a series of structures that typified different
- [Essex Street Market Infographic](https://turnstiletours.com/project/essex-street-market-infographic/) - Drawing from original research that Turnstile Tours conducted to lead public tours of the Essex Street Market, Turnstile Studio was commissioned by the Essex Street Market Vendors Association to research, develop, and curate a historical content document to support the design and creation of an infographic that was installed inside the market in the fall of 2016. This research
- [CUNY Graduate Center: Workshop on Guided Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/project/cuny-graduate-center-workshop-on-guided-tours/) - On October 28, 2016, Cindy VandenBosch and Andrew Gustafson of Turnstile Tours led a workshop at the City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities as part of Afterlives: Place, Memory, Story, a day-long conference hosted by the Public History Collective. This workshop introduced attendees to best practices in developing and delivering guided tour experiences that are accessible, engaging,
- [Brooklyn Public Library: Teacher Professional Development at Brooklyn Army Terminal](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-public-library-teacher-professional-development-at-brooklyn-army-terminal/) - Turnstile collaborated with Brooklyn Connections of the Brooklyn Public Library to develop and host a day-long professional development workshop for history and social studies teachers. The program included lectures and tours on the history of the Brooklyn Army Terminal and its transformation from a military base to a nonprofit industrial park. Brooklyn Connections provided participants with take-home primary sources
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: Tour Brochure and Map](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-navy-yard-tour-brochure-and-map/) - In the summer of 2015, Turnstile Studio was contracted by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation to create a new visitor brochure for tour programs at the Yard. This brochure was designed to improve wayfinding for visitors, and to encapsulate the wide variety of tour programs and experiences available at the Yard, including tours for the
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation: Ambassador Training](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-navy-yard-development-corporation-ambassador-training/) - This interactive training session for the security staff at the Brooklyn Navy Yard focused on visitor interaction, customer service, and anticipating and adapting to the needs of visitors, including people with disabilities. Led by Cindy VandenBosch, this session explored scenarios and proposed strategies for anticipating and addressing the needs of the wide range of visitors that come
- [Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce: Brooklyn Tourism Map](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-chamber-of-commerce-brooklyn-tourism-map/) - Turnstile Studio was contracted by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to create a free visitors map for Brooklyn, highlighting travel and tourism stakeholders in the borough. The design was focused on drawing in visitors from Manhattan by putting a spotlight on wayfinding and the many means of public transportation that cross the East River. The maps were
- [Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce: Brooklyn Craft Beverage Trail Maps](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-chamber-of-commerce-brooklyn-craft-beverage-trail-maps/) - Turnstile was commissioned by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to create a series of map brochures depicting the booming craft alcohol industry in Brooklyn. Developed as part of Cheers NY, a showcase of New York State alcohol producers held at Brooklyn’s Industry City in October 2015, and New York State’s Taste NY initiative, the maps were designed to guide visitors
- [Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Making Brooklyn Bloom](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-botanic-garden-making-brooklyn-bloom/) - Turnstile Studio provided pre-production, training, coordination, and production services to Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s staff for their annual community event, Making Brooklyn Bloom, which was held on Zoom in March 2021 and 2022 with hundreds of participants both years. This work included creating a production plan and run-of-show to make the online event as interactive as
- [Brooklyn Army Terminal 100th Anniversary Content Development](https://turnstiletours.com/project/brooklyn-army-terminal-100th-anniversary-content-development/) - In preparation for the 100th anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Turnstile Studio produced a comprehensive research document about the site’s history, along with archival photographs and other materials for use by the New York City Economic Development Corporation for marketing, education, and other materials. This package included dozens of high-resolution, public domain images
- [BLDG 92 & Brooklyn Historical Society: Brooklyn Navy Yard STEM and Sustainability Research](https://turnstiletours.com/project/bldg-92-brooklyn-historical-society-brooklyn-navy-yard-stem-and-sustainability-research/) - Turnstile was commissioned by the Brooklyn Historical Society (now known as the Center for Brooklyn History at the Brooklyn Public Library) and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 to create a research document about STEM and sustainability-related topics, both historical and contemporary, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This research project was designed to be the content foundation for the development of

## Resources

- [Inclusive Best Practices for Guided Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/resource/inclusive-best-practices-for-guided-tours/) - Preparation Keep in mind what you want visitors to know, feel, and do during their tour experience. Identify questions, themes, and visual and other sensory cues for each stop that are organized to achieve these desired outcomes. Plan out an accessible route that avoids physical barriers or obstacles to paths of travel, including steps, uneven ground and

## Tours

- [Prospect Park Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/prospect-park-tours/) - History, architecture, and ecology in "Brooklyn’s Backyard"
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present & Future Walking Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/brooklyn-navy-yard-walking-tour/) - Explore the past, present, and future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard on this guided walking tour of this historic and dynamic waterfront site.
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: Architecture & Infrastructure Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/brooklyn-navy-yard-sustainability-tour/) - Once America’s premier Naval shipyard, today the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a mission-driven industrial park and a hub of industry, technology, and craft.
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: Urban Ecology Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/urban-ecology-tour-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/) - Discover the natural world in the midst a thriving urban industrial park on this 2-hour tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- [NYC x DESIGN at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Saturday, May 17, 2025](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/nycxdesign/) - We are hosting special tours for Design Day at that Yard on May 17, part of the NYCxDESIGN Festival that will highlight different aspects of design and architecture throughout the Yard. Use the calendar above to sign up for one of these special tours, and visit nycxdesign.org to explore design-related events across the city.
- [Food Cart Tour of Jackson Heights For Middlebury Alums](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/food-cart-tour-of-jackson-heights-for-middlebury-alums/) - Join us on the special tour for Middlebury College alums and families that explores the local flavors of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world. As a center of New York’s street vending community, Jackson Heights is the perfect location to learn about the ins and outs of the industry, while sampling delicious
- [Brooklyn Army Terminal Tours](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/brooklyn-army-terminal-tours/) - History and industry inside of an engineering marvel.
- [Prospect Park Tour: Calvert Vaux at 200 | Saturday, Dec 21, 10:30am](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/prospect-park-calvert-vaux-at-200/) - Explore the works of park co-designer Calvert Vaux for his 200th birthday in 2024.
- [Prospect Park Veterans Day Tour | Sunday, Nov 10, 2pm](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/prospect-park-veterans-day-tour-saturday-nov-9-1030am/) - Explore the history of World War I in Prospect Park and its many memorial sites.
- [Prospect Park: City of Forest Day | Saturday, October 26, 10:30am](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/prospect-park-city-of-forest-day-saturday-october-26-1030am/) - Learn about Brooklyn's largest forest and woodland ecology
- [Brooklyn Navy Yard: World War II Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/brooklyn-navy-yard-world-war-ii-tour/) - The Brooklyn Navy Yard played a pivotal role in World War II, building battleships and aircraft carriers, repairing over 5,000 ships, and sending troops and supplies to fronts across the globe.
- [NYC Must-See Week](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/nyc-must-see-week/)
- [Essex Market Tour](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/essex-street-market-tour/) - Explore the Essex Market, a bustling public market and a centerpiece of the Lower East Side since 1940
- [Food Cart Tour: Financial District](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/food-cart-tour-financial-district/) - Eat from the same carts and trucks as busy New Yorkers and learn about the day in the life of a street vendor
- [Food Cart Tour: Jackson Heights](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/food-cart-tour-jackson-heights/) - As a center of New York’s street vending community, Jackson Heights is the perfect location to learn about the ins and outs of the industry, while sampling delicious favorites from around the globe and getting to know more about the people and organizations who help these vendors to thrive. We’ll dig into the past, present,
- [Food Cart Tour: Midtown](https://turnstiletours.com/tour/food-cart-tour-midtown/) - Get a taste of the streets of New York City and learn about the challenges of running these thriving but demanding small businesses.

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- [Cinnamon Snail](/tag/cinnamon-snail/)
- [Lift the Caps](/tag/lift-the-caps/)
- [Powerhouse Books](/tag/powerhouse-books/)
- [Building 3](/tag/building-3/)
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- [printing](/tag/printing/)
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- [USS Barry](/tag/uss-barry/)
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- [USS Stout](/tag/uss-stout/)
- [aircraft carrier](/tag/aircraft-carrier/)
- [EMALS](/tag/emals/)
- [Manhattan Bridge](/tag/manhattan-bridge/)
- [naval architecture](/tag/naval-architecture/)
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- [USS Bennington](/tag/uss-bennington/)
- [USS Constellation](/tag/uss-constellation/)
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- [Williamsburg Bridge](/tag/williamsburg-bridge/)
- [Building 128](/tag/building-128/)
- [Honeybee Robotics](/tag/honeybee-robotics/)
- [infrastructure](/tag/infrastructure/)
- [Mars](/tag/mars/)
- [New Lab](/tag/new-lab/)
- [robotics](/tag/robotics/)
- [smart cities](/tag/smart-cities/)
- [US Exploring Expedition](/tag/us-exploring-expedition/)
- [USS Nautilus](/tag/uss-nautilus/)
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- [fish](/tag/fish/)
- [Gowanus Canal](/tag/gowanus-canal/)
- [New York Environment Report](/tag/new-york-environment-report/)
- [Coney Island](/tag/coney-island/)
- [interview](/tag/interview/)
- [New York Aquarium](/tag/new-york-aquarium/)
- [New York Seascape Program](/tag/new-york-seascape-program/)
- [sharks](/tag/sharks/)
- [Wildlife Conservation Society](/tag/wildlife-conservation-society/)
- [Chester Nimitz](/tag/chester-nimitz/)
- [Douglas MacArthur](/tag/douglas-macarthur/)
- [Flag Loft](/tag/flag-loft/)
- [Instrument of Surrender](/tag/instrument-of-surrender/)
- [Treaty of Kanagawa](/tag/treaty-of-kanagawa/)
- [USS Mississippi](/tag/uss-mississippi/)
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- [Brooklyn Greenway Initiative](/tag/brooklyn-greenway-initiative/)
- [cemeteries](/tag/cemeteries/)
- [landscape architecture](/tag/landscape-architecture/)
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- [Naval Cemetery Landscape](/tag/naval-cemetery-landscape/)
- [Nelson Byrd Woltz](/tag/nelson-byrd-woltz/)
- [Tastemade](/tag/tastemade/)
- [AHL](/tag/ahl/)
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- [Chashama](/tag/chashama/)
- [Isabelle Garbani](/tag/isabelle-garbani/)
- [Open House New York](/tag/open-house-new-york/)
- [La Marqueta](/tag/la-marqueta/)
- [Lower East Side](/tag/lower-east-side/)
- [peddlars](/tag/peddlars/)
- [Thirteenth Avenue Market](/tag/thirteenth-avenue-market/)
- [Fulton Fish Market](/tag/fulton-fish-market/)
- [New Star Fish](/tag/new-star-fish/)
- [Rainbo Fish](/tag/rainbo-fish/)
- [Formaggio Essex](/tag/formaggio-essex/)
- [Frances Foley Gannon](/tag/frances-foley-gannon/)
- [Lower East Side Girls Club](/tag/lower-east-side-girls-club/)
- [Luis Meats](/tag/luis-meats/)
- [Pain d'Avignon](/tag/pain-davignon/)
- [Thanksgiving](/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [cheese](/tag/cheese/)
- [chocolate](/tag/chocolate/)
- [food manufacturing](/tag/food-manufacturing/)
- [Roni-Sue's Chocolates](/tag/roni-sues-chocolates/)
- [Saxelby Chessemongers](/tag/saxelby-chessemongers/)
- [Gothamist](/tag/gothamist/)
- [Brooklyn Reader](/tag/brooklyn-reader/)
- [Anibal Meat Market](/tag/anibal-meat-market/)
- [Food](/tag/food/)
- [KF Seetoh](/tag/kf-seetoh/)
- [Makansutra](/tag/makansutra/)
- [public markets](/tag/public-markets/)
- [Bien Hecho](/tag/bien-hecho/)
- [BLDG 92](/tag/bldg-92/)
- [bakeries](/tag/bakeries/)
- [Davidovich Bakery](/tag/davidovich-bakery/)
- [Brooklyn Roasting Company](/tag/brooklyn-roasting-company/)
- [Chester A. Arthur](/tag/chester-a-arthur/)
- [coffee](/tag/coffee/)
- [corruption](/tag/corruption/)
- [Crye Precision](/tag/crye-precision/)
- [Franklin Pierce](/tag/franklin-pierce/)
- [Presidential Yacht Mayflower](/tag/presidential-yacht-mayflower/)
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- [Squadron of Evolution](/tag/squadron-of-evolution/)
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- [USS Connecticut](/tag/uss-connecticut/)
- [USS Plunger](/tag/uss-plunger/)
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- [USS Baylander](/tag/uss-baylander/)
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- [Green-Wood Cemetery](/tag/green-wood-cemetery/)
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- [Kingsland Wildflowers](/tag/kingsland-wildflowers/)
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- [Transmitter Brewing](/tag/transmitter-brewing/)
- [USCGC Lilac](/tag/uscgc-lilac/)
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- [archaeology](/tag/archaeology/)
- [Columbus Day](/tag/columbus-day/)
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- [Bush Terminal](/tag/bush-terminal/)
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- [Staten Island Terminal](/tag/staten-island-terminal/)
- [Battle of Plattsburgh](/tag/battle-of-plattsburgh/)
- [Corlears Hook](/tag/corlears-hook/)
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- [Lewis Warrington](/tag/lewis-warrington/)
- [Moby Dick](/tag/moby-dick/)
- [Noah and Adam Brown](/tag/noah-and-adam-brown/)
- [USS Peacock](/tag/uss-peacock/)
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- [Bath Iron Works](/tag/bath-iron-works/)
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- [USS Edson](/tag/uss-edson/)
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- [welding](/tag/welding/)
- [1st Armored Division](/tag/1st-armored-division/)
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- [Pier 90](/tag/pier-90/)
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- [live oak](/tag/live-oak/)
- [Pensacola Navy Yard](/tag/pensacola-navy-yard/)
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- [USS Adams](/tag/uss-adams/)
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- [puppets](/tag/puppets/)
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- [Brian Hoffman](/tag/brian-hoffman/)
- [Dr. Eliza Kinsey](/tag/dr-eliza-kinsey/)
- [Matt Shapiro](/tag/matt-shapiro/)
- [Seamen's Church Institute](/tag/seamens-church-institute/)
- [Titanic](/tag/titanic/)
- [Seatrain Shipbuilding](/tag/seatrain-shipbuilding/)
- [Chinatown](/tag/chinatown/)
- [ThinkChinatown](/tag/thinkchinatown/)
- [David Sharps](/tag/david-sharps/)
- [Rose Garden](/tag/rose-garden/)
- [Bowne and Co.](/tag/bowne-and-co/)
- [Bay Back Fens](/tag/bay-back-fens/)
- [public health](/tag/public-health/)
- [Eating In Translation](/tag/eating-in-translation/)
- [West Africa](/tag/west-africa/)
- [West African food](/tag/west-african-food/)
- [conservation](/tag/conservation/)
- [Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP](/tag/marsh-billings-rockefeller-nhp/)
- [National Park Service](/tag/national-park-service/)
- [Vermont](/tag/vermont/)
- [BCAP](/tag/bcap/)
- [Broadway](/tag/broadway/)
- [Marx Brothers](/tag/marx-brothers/)
- [Noah Diamond](/tag/noah-diamond/)
- [theater](/tag/theater/)
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- [Guastavino tiles](/tag/guastavino-tiles/)
- [Jesse Lebovics](/tag/jesse-lebovics/)
- [Pioneer](/tag/pioneer/)
- [W.O. Decker](/tag/w-o-decker/)
- [Wavertree](/tag/wavertree/)
- [Jack Dempsey](/tag/jack-dempsey/)
- [John Minturn](/tag/john-minturn/)
- [Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Training Center](/tag/manhattan-beach-coast-guard-training-center/)
- [National Lighthouse Museum](/tag/national-lighthouse-museum/)
- [Ramon Ortiz](/tag/ramon-ortiz/)
- [Sandy Hook](/tag/sandy-hook/)
- [Thomas Freeborn](/tag/thomas-freeborn/)
- [USCGC Tamaroa](/tag/uscgc-tamaroa/)