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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 …

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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 …

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s “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 …

  • Architecture
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
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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 …

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Navy Yard Manufacturer IceStone Uses Crowdsourcing to Recover from Sandy

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 …

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Merchant Mariners, 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 …

  • Brooklyn Army Terminal
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Waterfront
  • World War II

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Tour group standing in front of the gates of the Commandant's House with WWII veteran Paul Mager standing on the right.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

  • Architecture
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
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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, …

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The Life and Death of Ships: Peter Hutton’s “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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

Neighborhood Women: Tour Consulting

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 …

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Turnstile Newsletter | July 2024

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International Placemaking Week Resources

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