Virtual Program Videos

Below are links to recordings of a selection of our virtual programs, arranged in reverse chronological order and searchable by topic.

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Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton’s Kingdom with Sara Zewde | Free Virtual Program
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designer of America & His Staten Island Roots | Episode 279
Virtual Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Open House New York | Episode 278
Barge Family Reunion Celebration: The Tideshift Project, Session 2 | Episode 274
May Day: Labor History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 272
(Re)connecting Brooklyn's History: Brooklyn's Homefront during World War II with Brooklyn Public Library
Celebrate Black History and Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 263
A Staten Island Farmer's Travels Abroad with Justin Martin | Episode 260
Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt Closing Ceremony | Virtual Program
Exploring New York City's Stair Streets with Michael Cairl | Episode 255
Economy, Access, and Resilience: Staten Island's North Shore with the Waterfront Alliance, Part 2 | Episode 254
Photo of the lobby of BLGD 92 showing a large anchor and visitor services desk with a staff member and group of visitors gathered around it
Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 Turns 10 | Episode 252
Virtual Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Open House New York | Episode 249
A dramatic look up at the window frames that connect two sides of the Brooklyn Army Terminal's gigantic and imposing Building B, made of poured concrete with off-set balconies
Brooklyn Army Terminal Virtual Tour for Open House New York | Episode 248
Brooklyn and the Navy Armed Guard | Episode 247
The Tideshift Project: Session 1 with the Waterfront Museum | Episode 246
Olmsted, Public Health, and Urban Planning with Olmsted-Beil House | Episode 244
Climate Change Conversation with Prospect Park Alliance Forest Ecologist Howard Goldstein | Episode 242
Cross Country on a Citi Bike: The True Story of an Adventurous New Yorker | Episode 240
Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era | Episode 239
Restoring Prospect Park's Concert Grove Pavilion | Episode 237
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Russ & Daughters' Appetizing Factory | BCAP at Home
Capturing Food Carts with Photographer Maxwell Schiano | Episode 233
Ship Spotting at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | BCAP at Home
Typeface collection at Woodside Press at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Machines and Tools: Printing Technology with Woodside Press | BCAP at Home
Exploring Staten Island's Olmsted-Beil House | Episode 226
Sawasdee, Somtum Der! Lessons in Thai Language & Cooking | Episode 225
Thai Communities and Family Recipes in NYC | Episode 223
Function and Fusion: Thai Flavors in America | Episode 220
Behind the Build: Bednark Studio | Episode 219
Made in NY Campus at Bush Terminal Virtual Tour | Episode 218
Renovation and Reinvention of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Building 127 | Episode 217
Galangal and Globalization: How Thai Ingredients Get to Our Plate | Episode 216
A dramatic look up at the window frames that connect two sides of the Brooklyn Army Terminal's gigantic and imposing Building B, made of poured concrete with off-set balconies
Exploring the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 215
Brooklyn Navy Yard Virtual Artists’ Studio Visits | Episode 214
Spring Planting in Prospect Park | Episode 213
People standing on Lullwater Bridge
Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks: Documentary and Discussion
Great Trees of New York with Allison C. Meier | Episode 210
Black and white photo of three workers standing around a wooden model of a ship
Exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives | Episode 203
Where is Pete Panto? Corruption and Crusaders on NYC's Waterfront | Episode 202
Around the World in One Kitchen with Brian Hoffman | Episode 201
Delaware & Raritan Canal / Camden & Amboy RR with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Episode 198
Black Sailors and Shipworkers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1866–1966 | Episode 195
Aerial view that shows the Brooklyn Navy Yard with Wallabout Bay, the East River, and the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges and Manhattan in the background
Brooklyn Navy Yard Birthday: Celebrating 220 Years of Industry and Innovation | Episode 194
Chinese New Year Traditions | Episode 193
Staying Afloat During COVID-19: Three Stories from the Brooklyn Waterfront
Virtual Opening for Public Art at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Winter Birding with the Brooklyn Bird Club | Episode 186
Portal to Prospect Park: Restoring the Endale Arch | Episode 185
Canners, Compost, Community, Art: A Special Peek Inside Sure We Can | Episode 175
The Constellation Fire: The Accident That Changed the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 173
Exploring the Morris Canal with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Episode 172
“Pop-Surreal” Art and Tile Demo with Artist Ralph Almeida | Episode 171
Holiday Plants at Urban Garden Center | Episode 169
Stories with Children's Author Peter G. Reynolds | Episode 166
Thanksgiving Traditions of the Essex Market | Episode 164
Photographer Jonathan Atkin, the ShipShooter | Episode 163
Creating a New Kind of Theatre During the Pandemic with Artistic Stamp | Episode 162
A statue of a soldier who stands clutching his gun and looking off into the distance as an angel begins to wrap her wing and arm around him
Veterans Day in Prospect Park: Commemorating the Great War | Episode 160
Listening to WWII: Voices from the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 159
The Future of Thai Cuisine | Episode 6 (153)
Prospect Park Well House A one-story brick structure with windows and an ornamental portico painted in pastel colors and brown with trees in the background
Prospect Park Waterways | Free Virtual Program | Episode 152
United States Coast Guard Cutter in a dry dock undergoing repairs in Dry Dock 1 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Open House New York at Brooklyn Navy Yard's Dry Dock 1 | Episode 151
View of the metal frames that span the two sides of Building B, a massive concrete industrial building with an atrium at the center that opens to the sky.
Open House New York at Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 150
Cooking Thai Regional Dishes: Northeast | Episode 5 (149)
Inclusive Design and Employment for People of All Abilities | Made in NYC Week | Episode 146
Cooking With Thai Ingredients | Episode 4 (145)
National Manufacturing Day at the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Episode 143
Chefs of A Plus Thai and Herb
Cooking Thai Regional Dishes: North and South | Episode 3 (142)
Cycling for All New Yorkers: Adaptive Bicycles with Adapt Ability | Episode 141
Climate Week: Tackling Climate Change in Prospect Park | Episode 140
Cooking Thai Food for New (and Familiar) Audiences | Episode 2 (138)
Climate Week: Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Virtual Tour | Episode 137
"Every Day Is a Holiday" Film Screening and Discussion | Episode 136
Gastrodiplomacy and the Rise of Thai Cuisine in America | Thai Food in America | Episode 1 (135)
The 9/11 Boatlift: Panel Discussion with Maritime Heroes | Episode 134
Planting for Pollinators and Native Plant Gardening | Episode 133
Lighting the Way: Staten Island's National Lighthouse Museum | Episode 129
The Trees of Prospect Park with Howard Goldstein | Episode 126
What's Cooking? Haitian Cuisine with Grandchamps | Episode 125
Voices of World War II: Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral Histories | Episode 124
Race to Hunts Point: Gamifying New York's Food System | Episode 121
U-Boats, Bootleggers, and Buoys: The History of the Coast Guard in New York Harbor | Episode 119
Preserving the Fleet of the South Street Seaport Museum | Episode 117
Progressivism and Purified Air: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Living Machines | Episode 112
Bowne & Co.: Letterpress Printing in 19th-Century New York | Episode 110
An Unfree Fleet: Slavery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 106
A Conversation with Think!Chinatown | Episode 105
In Service to Seafarers from Titanic to Today: Seamen's Church Institute | Episode 103
Lighter Life with David Sharps of the Waterfront Museum | Episode 102
COVID-19 and Food Access: An Ongoing Crisis | Episode 98
Rocking The Boat: Changing Lives on the Bronx River | Episode 93
Art in Crisis: A Conversation with Charlotta Janssen | Episode 90
Tugboat being repaired in Brooklyn Navy Yard Dry Dock No. 1, operated by GMD.
All About Dry Docks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Virtual Program
Reuse and Recycling at the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Virtual Program
A Rose in Spanish Harlem: Gardening with Urban Garden Center | Episode 86
Flash and Clang: Aids to Navigation with the Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac | Episode 85
Virtual Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities | Episode 84
Struggle and Resilience on Manhattan's Lower East Side | Episode 83
Exploring the Erie Canal with Will Van Dorp | Episode 78
Voices of Essex Market with Feed Me A Story | Episode 75
Virtual Visit to Williamsburg's Moore Street Market | Episode 73
"Mind the Light, Kate": New York's Most Famous Lighthouse Keeper with the Noble Maritime Collection | Episode 70
Chaos and Control: On Painting and Toys with Paul Campbell | Episode 67
From Orchard to Essex: Street Peddlers and Market Vendors with the Tenement Museum
The first and second floors of the Essex Market with a historic neon sign from the Orchard Essex Meat Market
A Year in Review at Essex Market | Episode 63
Immigrant Food for an Immigrant Nation with Nuchas Chief Empanada Officer | Episode 58
Hospital Ships and Shipwright Tools: Exploring Collections of the South Street Seaport Museum | Episode 56
Street Organizing: A Conversation with Sean Basinski | Episode 55
Virtual Visit to the 1661 Bowne House in Flushing, Queens | Episode 53
Animal History of Prospect Park | Episode 52
Places New Yorkers Love: In Conversation with Author and Artist John Tebeau | Episode 48
A Church Grows in Brooklyn: Historic Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary's | Episode 43
Earth Day: Ecology of Prospect Park | Episode 38
Explore Brooklyn's Avenue of Puerto Rico | Episode 33
Virtual Visit to the Church Murals of Artist Maxo Vanka in Millvale, PA | Episode 28
By Land or By Sea: The Port of New York Paradox | Episode 25
Sarah standing in front of a yellow store front
Exploring the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History | Episode 17
Census Day: Telling Brooklyn's Story Through the US Census | Episode 15
Street vendors rally on the steps of city hall with signs that read I love immigrant NY and Support NYC smallest businesses and Help us to serve you
NYC Street Vendors: How Can We Help Them? | Episode 13
The History of NYC Public Markets, Part 1 | Episode 7
Inventions of the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Episode 1