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Duration: 2h
Location: Brooklyn Navy Yard Center, 63 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States | Brooklyn, United States
Category: Attractions
Highlights:
Expansive & historic grounds of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Fascinating exhibits & artifacts housed in BLDG 92 museum
Chance to explore 300-acre (121-ha) industrial complex
Experienced guide shares stories about the Yard’s history
Learning about innovative companies in the former shipyard
Inclusions:
Guided tour of Brooklyn Navy Yard Center
Live tour commentary provided in English
Description:
Investigate New York’s industrial past and get a glimpse of its bright future as you explore the sprawl of dry docks, cranes, and warehouses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a historic federal shipyard that now employs 7,000 people. This is the only guided tour that explores this bustling industrial park.
Begin your excursion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, where you find 3 floors of intriguing artifacts from the Yard’s former life, interspersed with exhibits about green building design, manufacturing companies, and new technologies emerging from the facility today. With your curiosity piqued, meet your experienced guide and immerse yourself in the Yard’s most famous sites.
As you explore the Yard, hear the stories of sailors and shipyard workers that once filled this 300-acre (121-ha) waterfront complex. Learn about its rebirth as an economic powerhouse for New York City. It is home to hundreds of industrial companies that make a wide range of products from countertops and subway signs to space suits and Hollywood movies. Visit an active dry dock with a legacy that stretches all the way back to before the Civil War. Take a look inside the immense workshops where pieces of gargantuan ships were once made.
Moving between the past and the present, explore how these places are now serving the community in new ways as the Yard is reinvented as a hub for innovative makers and manufacturers in a wide range of industrial and creative sectors.
Cancellation Policy: 72 hours
Know before you book:
Children 4 and younger are complimentary.,
This activity operates rain or shine.,
Maximum group size is 32 people.,
Check-in is 15 minutes prior to the booked tour start time.
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