Brooklyn Navy Yard

This is truly a hidden gem — and literally. hidden. It’s a pretty far walk off public transportation and as you’re walking there, there’s not a whole lot going on around you. This museum is one of the most innovative and design forward I’ve ever seen. It depicts the history of the Navy Yard in the most creative way. I highly recommend coming here if you’re at all interesting in learning about the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Great café on the third floor serving up coffee and lunch items.

I went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 92 yesterday with two fellow photographers. After we bought $ 30 tickets for a 2 hour general bus tour (organized by a separate company), we walked around the galleries and had a bite to eat at the café. Their grilled cheese sandwich and strawberry apple juice was quite tasty. Food costs the usual price at a museum.
Once we got on the bus, we were taken to general areas of the BNY, and honestly, as a photographer, I wasn’t too impressed. I felt like the hosts were talking my ears off. Some of the facts were interesting, but unless you are super interested into history and wanting to know every single little detail, you might be bored.
I did manage to capture a few nice photos, and I was told that the bus company also hosts seasonal photography tours. I am sort of interested in doing the photography tour — because they actually let you take photos at many other sections of the site (not covered in the general tour), but it’ll cost another $ 30 and needs to be booked in advance for a group of at least 15.
If I decide to do the photography tour, I will post a separate review on it. But in the meantime — my general visit to the BNY was okay.

I tag along often for rides through Brooklyn & Manhattan in my boyfriend’s oyster van. We have been stopping here a lot lately to get oysters from the fish transfer. This place is huge, cool and the view is beautiful! Right on the water it has killer views of the city. I will have to come here with my camera sometime. I also saw that you can rent Citi bikes, which is a great idea because this place is huge. A cool place to check out at least once.

There are really good things happening at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. People with a plan are taking the storied industrial space and turning the 300-​plus acre area into a 21^st century hub. My family and I did the 2-​hour tour and really enjoyed it. The tour guide did a perfect job. He regaled us with the ground’s history, shuffled us around the massive space, and somehow maintained his easy going Brooklyn nature the whole time. For NY history buffs this place is a great place to come and check out.

Came here for GO Brooklyn this summer. Def worth a visit to explore the grounds.

I am pretty much over you.
Some issues :
— The Brooklyn Navy Yard is (surprise!) on the water. Places on the water usually experience a lot of wind. So why is it that there is so much fucking GRAVEL and TRASH and SAND… and very little asphalt around the building where I work? I mean really. I don’t want to have to wear protective goggles when I try to get the mail.
— WHY doesn’t the shuttle go to the train stations more frequently, and WHY isn’t there a shuttle to the G train? Seriously guyz, this has to be rectified. I have to walk for 20 minutes to get to MY train.
— WHEN IT SNOWS, YOU SHOULD REALLY MAKE SURE THERE ARE PATHS CLEARED TO THE ENTRANCES TO THE NAVY YARD. YOU SHOULD JUST SHOVEL IN GENERAL. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO CLIMB 8 SNOW DRIFTS TO GET TO MY BUILDING! THIS IS NOT SIBERIA!!!

I did not come here on my own volition. I did not decide to take the Brooklyn Historical Society Bus Tour (but it sounds cool). I came here to find my car. I made the terrible mistake of parking my car on Nostrand Ave and didn’t bother to read the no standing (4PM — 7PM) sign. So when I came back in the evening to find my car, it was gone! After calling 311, and looking on the web, I determined that my car was temporarily being sheltered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. My wonderful BF and I braved the arctic cold and went to retrieve it. When we walked up to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, it looked quite new and organized. The NYPD was housed in a nice building with glass window panels. I guess this is what they do with my impound fee. In any case, the lady at the counter was nice to me. I had to retrieve some documents from the car, and there is a shuttle van that takes you to your car and back to the station. Very organized, I say. She asked for the registration and insurance info. I didn’t have my insurance info, but she still let me get by. I am grateful for her being so kind to me. In any case, the fee was $ 185 and on top of that, I got a no standing ticket for $ 115. Wow, that was an expensive lesson. Merry X-​mas from
!!

Nothing spectacular about this place besides being the best shortcut from Flushing Ave to Kent Ave when biking. Swear it diminished by death percentage by a few thousand points, by bypassing BQE.

Out in California lovely rotting urban decay is nonchalantly fenced off which is essentially an open invitation to the urban photographer; but the absurd protection of such sites in New York would make you think these abandon building were filled gold or drugs or something. So after years of longing peering at the Navy Yards through the fences I finally shelled out $ 30 to take the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Bus Tour; a seemingly hefty price made perfectly fair by our totally awesome tour guide Adam Schwartz who shares a love of history and the semi-​legal exploration of it (though everything on the tour was legit).
While many of the building have been restored for commercial use
, some still stand as massive rusting warehouses for nothing
filled with forgotten tools and buttons
with weathered train tracks to nowhere
and forever damp room where children use to play
We also went «technically» off the yards and into the adjacent hospital grounds where shimmering white marble peeks out between the thick overgrowth
While the Navy Yards are not the most exciting thing ever, there was plenty for my camera happy hands to collect… although I wish I had had more time to get down and dirty off the beaten path, so if anyone has access to the yards (winking at Briana)…

This place was just… cool. No it’s not close to anything really, but if you ever, ever, find yourself in or around the yard, please, take some time to stroll around, get lost in the industrial coast. There’s even a bar, right outside the washington ave. entrance by Flushing, that looks straight out of 1978, and decidedly not New York-​like. There’s a Chinese take out place outside as well, for lunch i guess.
You walk inside, and basically it’s just building after building of unmarked brick and sheet metal and the coast. It’d be an absolutely terrific place to film, and they even have a studio, Steiner Studios, with five or six huge stages.
I want to come back and really get lost here; the fear and adrenaline of really not knowing your orientation or exactly where you are in such a massive yard like this (there has got to be hundreds of buildings with only a few entrances/​exits) would be really, really tantalizing. It’s one of those places where you go and you’re like «this is massive, this is industrial, this is mechanical, this is an ENVIRONMENT». And yet, at the same time, it’s so old, with the brick wall encasing it, that it’s got that feel of 1900 industry, with 1970s ships, and the sheen of metal and sounds of brute force machines working during the day, and creaking at night.

Ah!
I love the smell of isolation so close to the projects and a highway!
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is empty, dusty and full of whirling dust devils and apparitions of cowboys in spurs. Think you can escape heading North? Watch out! Ah see me some Ha-​seeds! Think you can manage by running Southwest? Don’t think so! That’s the Walt Whitman Houses! Leaving straight South? Yes, I suppose that will take you into Fort Greene. But you got lucky this time…