S 8th St The Brooklyn Navy Yard was founded in 1801 and for 165 years, in war and in peace, the Yard repaired, Working Waterfront Brooklyn Greenway outfitted, and modernized thousands of Navy ships, developed one of the most skilled workforces in the URNSTILE TOURSS 9th St Commandant's House & Vinegar Hill If you come to the Brooklyn Navy Yard via the Astoria Pier K nation, and launched sailing frigates, ironclads, aircraft carriers, and storied battleships such as USS route of the NYC Ferry, you will see a very active Arizona and Missouri. The Yard grew over time, and the 300-acre campus you see today took its final shape Built in 1807, this Federal-style mansion served as home to waterfront in Wallabout Bay. Pier C is the NYC Ferry in World War II, when they Yard doubled in size, expanded its workforce to 72,000, and became the busiest the Brooklyn Navy Yard's commanders. The first purpose- Brooklyn Navy Yard Homeport, where boats are docked, crewed, supplied, S 10th St shipyard in the world. In 1966, the Navy closed the Yard and sold the property to the City of New York, and built structure at the Yard, the Commandant's House is no Holland Tun. today it is managed by the non-profit Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corpration, who's mission is to and maintained for the whole ferry system. You will Bedford Ave longer technially part of the Yard, as this National Historic Perimeter Guide Berry St also see the cranes and dry docks of GMD Shipyard, create good-quality jobs for local people in manufacturing, technology, and creative industries. The Yard Landmark was sold to a private buyer in 1979. Further down Pier J the largest ship repair facility in the harbor. Dry Docks S 11th St supports over 450 businesses and 11,000 jobs – more than the 9,600 when the shipyard closed – in Hudson Ave you can find some of the oldest buildings in the S Williamsburg #1 (1851), #5 and #6 (1942) are still used today to sectors ranging from food manufacturing to ship repair, film production to 3D printing. M A N H A T T A N Vinegar Hill Landmark Historic District. This area became a repair tugboats, barges, ferries, Coast Guard cutters, Division Ave home to many Navy Yard workers in the 19th century, when it Williamsburg Br. and more, and nearly all of the cranes still operate. While much of the Yard is not accessible, there are many public spaces around the perimeter, and you can was known as "Irishtown." You can see the Yard's history You will also see fireboats of FDNY Marine 6, and over explore so much of the past and present of the Yard and the many neighborhoods it touches. Our team at depicted in a mural along Navy St, created by local students at , large bulk cargo ships bring in turnstiletours.com Turnstile Tours has been developing and leading tours of the Yard since 2008 with BNYDC, and we hope and the Groundswell Community Mural Project. Keep heading Piers J and K Brooklyn Br.Manhattan Br. sand and gravel for making concrete at New York Sand you will join us for a tour of the entire Yard when we are back up and running. The distance of this self- down Navy St and you can stop in at the Gatehouses, home Pier G @turnstiletours and Stone and Lehigh Cement. If you take the ferry, guided tour from Vinegar Hill to the Naval Cemetery is 1.5 miles, plus many recommended detours. F of Kings County Distillery, which has continued the long follow signs past that will direct you to tradition of whiskey distilling in this neighborhood. Dock 72 (2018) A YYorkork SStt Buidling 77 and the exit to Flushing Ave. You can also Kay St C Hammerhead Ave hitch a ride with Optimus Ride, who is testing self- FDNY Marine 6 driving vehicles in the Yard. 292 Naval Hospital & Cemetery HHighigh SStt Clymer St BLDG 92 VINEGAR When you pass the main gate of Steiner Studios at BQE (I-287) Barge Basin WILLIAMSBURG Washington Ave, the landscape of the Yard changes from Hudson Ave Hudson Wallabout brick and concrete to a dense forest. This is the Naval CClinton-linton- John St Pearl St Pearl Wythe Ave Hospital, established in 1838, it treated sailors and their WWashingtonashington DUMBO HILL Jay St Jay Railroad Ave families for 110 years. You can catch a glimpse of the marble Plymouth St colonnade of the grand hospital buidling if you look through B R O O K L Y N St Gold Bay Kent Ave Bridge St Bridge the fence at Ryerson St. This New York City Landmark and NYC Water Pollution Gee Ave 7 Ross St the surrounding 24 acres is leased to Steiner Studios, who To Brooklyn Bridge Park Evans St Little St Control Plant plan to preserve and repurpose the historic structures for film Water St NYC Ferry Homeport Pier C St 34th East To 8 To Wall St-Pier 11 St-Pier Wall To production. On the edge of the hospital grounds is a publicly- GETTING TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD Commandant's 293 House Dry Dock 6 accessible green space, the Naval Cemetery Landscape. An Vinegar Hill Landmark Historic District The Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92, the gateway to the Brooklyn Navy Front St Pier D active cemetery from 1831 to 1910, more than 2,000 people Yard, is located at the corner of Flushing Ave and Carlton Ave in Brooklyn's Fort 268 Brooklyn Navy Yard Rodney St were buried there, yet when the remains were disinterred and Wallabout Rd relocated in 1926, fewer than half were moved. As a result, Greene section. 500 Dry Dock 5 the site remains hallowedHewes ground St than cannot be built on, so F York St Houses Groundswell 269 Keap St Mural the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative transformed the space into York St Dock Ave A C BLDG 92 is accessible via the York St (F), High St (A/C), and Clinton- 10 700 a memorial meadow, a haven for animals, birds, insects, and Dry Dock 3 Hooper St Penn St Washington Avs (G) stations. Each is a 10-15 minute walk from BLDG 92. NYPD Tow Pound 11 Dock 72 humans in a neighborhood where greenery is lacking. 664 F Second St Dry Dock 1 Dry Dock 2 Steiner 300 Farragut 12B Chauncey12 Ave 131 Studios Rutledge St B69 and B57 buses offer service along Flushing Ave, and the B62 stops A C High St 62 Assembly Rd Morris Ave B69 B57 Third St 20 one block south of BLDG 92 on Park Ave. The B67 runs on weekdays only, Warrington Ave Pearl St Pearl 303 Dry Dock 4 B67 B62 127 Fourth St GMD Heyward St and only Brooklyn Navy Yard ID holders may disembark inside the Yard. 123 Sands St Kings County 22 Fifth St28 Shipyard Market St Naval Hospital Distillery Admirals 25 Naval Annex Cemetery BLDG 92 is easily accessible from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Timber Row 41 Paulding St Landscape Shed 132 128B Wallabout St Admirals Row Perry Ave (I-278) via the Tillary St (exit 29B), Flushing Ave (exit 30 eastbound) or 128 5 Ave Washington Sixth St 120 Flushing Ave was once lined by stately homes for the Navy 212 Ordnance Ave Farragut St Wythe Ave/Kent Ave (exit 31 westbound) exits. 42 46 Federal Bldg. 25 Yard's top brass, built between 1864 and 1901 and known as Quarters B Wegmans 280 Motion Picture 275 77 Property 4 2 Admirals Row. When the Yard closed Nassauin 1966, theSt federal 50 27 3 Naval Hospital Exchange 14th St 30 Ninth Ave government retained this property, but the buildings were soon Eighth Ave Street parking is available in the vicinity of BLDG 92, and there is a free BLDG 92 Former abandoned and fell into disrepair. In 2012, the City of New Navy St Foundry N Elliott Pl N Portland Ave South St N Oxford St Steiner Studios municipal parking lot located on Park Ave, one block south of BLDG 92, St Jay Cumberland St Flushing Ave Carlton Ave York got control of the site and set out to fulfill a promise to Adelphi St Clermont Ave Vanderbilt Ave Steuben St P Clinton Ave The largest industry in the Yard today is film and Waverly Ave underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Concord St Washington Ave the community: to save two of the buildings, Quarters B Hall St Grand Ave Ryerson St television production.BEDFORD- Steiner Studios opened in 2004, (1864) and the Timber Shed (1833), and toSt Duffield build a grocery Commodore Chapel St and it has since become the country's largest film studio store. Wegmans opened their doors in October 2019, but before Brooklyn - Barry Park outside California. The studio lot is a mixture of new they did, they focused on local hiring, recruiting hundreds of Exit 30 STUYVESANT BLDG 92 offers ample bicycle parking and is located on the Brooklyn sound stages and repurposed historic buildings. 25 workers from the nearby Farragut, Walt Whitman, and Waterfront Greenway bicycle path. Citi Bike stations are located Wallabout Houses Washington Ave (1942), topped by two radio towers Queens Skillman St Ingersoll public housing developments. But Wegmans is only Franklin Ave Expressway I-278 To Clinton- connected by caternaryPark Ave wires, was part of the Naval across the street from BLDG 92. part of the project: Buildings 303 and 212 were also newly Kent Ave Much of the large-scale housing in the neighbor- Washington CLINTON HILL Applied SciencesTaaffe Lab,Pl where they worked on projects built to accommodateTillary manufacturing St and creative tenants.