{"id":217100,"date":"2026-05-01T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:29:16","slug":"walking-tour-to-offer-inside-look-at-historic-brooklyn-navy-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217100\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking tour to offer inside look at historic Brooklyn Navy Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN NAVY YARD \u2014 THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL is offering a two-hour walking tour called \u201cBrooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future\u201d on Saturday, May 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. The Navy Yard was once the nation\u2019s premier naval shipyard, from the War of 1812 through the Cold War. Today, its industrial facilities have been repurposed to support 450-plus manufacturing, technology and skilled craft businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Led by Turnstyle Tours, the excursion will examine historical documents, listen to oral histories from workers and sailors, and visit historic buildings including Civil War-era machine shops, the Yard\u2019s museum and visitor center at BLDG 92, and a working dry dock still in use, along with today\u2019s business ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Friends of HDC and seniors $15; general admission $20. See more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hdc.org\/events\/conference-tour-brooklyn-navy-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Historic Districts Council<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN NAVY YARD \u2014 THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL is offering a two-hour walking tour called \u201cBrooklyn Navy Yard:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,14261,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-217100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-navy-yard","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}