Brooklyn navy yard

Yesterday, we got a unique chance to see the dry docks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a unique angle: via the water. Most ferry boats and pleasure cruises rarely turn into the Navy Yard Basin (also known as Wallabout Bay), sticking to the most efficient path on the East River. But we were being taken to see the working waterfront in New York City aboard the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey, as part of the project to rehabilitate the S.S. Columbia, a passenger steamship from Detroit that will…

Pratt Institute, a renowned art and design school, is set to expand its presence at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The institute has signed a letter of intent with Brookfield Properties, the yard's developer, to lease an additional 100,000 square feet of space. This expansion will effectively double Pratt's current footprint at the yard, where its graduate center is already located. The move comes as Pratt Institute aims to offer more programs in fields such as engineering, architecture, and…

Today I’m delighted to share with you some of our New York City Navy Yard historical photographs that we have in our collection. The photographs displayed below range in terms of publication …

Liverpool 1946

Author and professor Sharon Zukin looks at the history and the origins of the urban tech landscape, and how it has manifested in New York and elsewhere.

Workshop/apd and Beyer Blinder Belle restored an 1857 Commandant’s house and added a sleek new addition, breathing new life into the disused industrial site on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Marco Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using cathedral-like steel trusswork to inform new elements

Pigeons, new public space, and cocktails launch the Navy Yard's next era

June 30 th , 2010 - In May of 2009, a unique sculpture was installed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Created by Lisa Kirk, this sculpture was na...

Completed in 2012 in New York, United States. Images by T.G. Olcott. Workshop/apd, in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, transformed Building 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a...