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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.

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

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

Virtual Programs
Waterfront

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Virtual Programs

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

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

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

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

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Street Vending

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. …

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Street Vending

The Tideshift Project: Session 3 | Episode 277

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

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Waterfront

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

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

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Waterfront

Fleet Week New York Celebration | Episode 275

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

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Waterfront

Flight deck of USS Bataan during Fleet Week

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 …

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

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

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Waterfront

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

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

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Waterfront

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

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

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

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

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My Little Chickpea: An Exploration of Falafel | Episode 270

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

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Workers walk alongside a large stone dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with two white tugboats below and a red and white crane on the right.