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Brooklyn Navy Yard-Based Photographer Davina Zagury Feinberg 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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography

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 …

Brooklyn Army Terminal

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.

Press

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 …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard

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 …

Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Navy Yard
World War II

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. …

Brooklyn Army Terminal

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 …

General

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 …

Street Vending

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography

Busting 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 …

Street Vending

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photography

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 …

Waterfront

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard

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 …

Street Vending

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 …

Brooklyn Navy Yard
World War II

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.

Architecture
Brooklyn Navy Yard

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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.