{"id":25627,"date":"2011-11-21T01:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=25627"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:44:34","slug":"bldg-92-brooklyn-navy-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/25627\/bldg-92-brooklyn-navy-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"BLDG 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Positioned between the neighborhoods of Vinegar Hill, Ft. Greene and Williamsburg, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has long stood as a historic landmark on the East River. It has not been easily accessible to the public until this past Veteran\u2019s Day weekend, when BLDG 92<\/a>, the Brooklyn Navy Yard\u2019s exhibition and visitors center, finally opened.<\/p>\n

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Now home to small businesses and artists\u2019 studios, green manufacturing, water treatment, and the largest film studio complex outside of Hollywood, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is ready for its close-up. Local tour company Urban Oyster<\/a> offers both bus and bring-your-own-bicycle tours of the Navy Yard (bikes are also available for rental through Recycle a Bicycle<\/a>). In addition to steering visitors past familiar name-brand tenants and viewing the abandoned marble building that once housed the old naval hospital, you\u2019ll get to see a pre-Civil War dry dock still in use and take a closer look at the Yard\u2019s green technology and sustainable initiatives.<\/p>\n

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Both a historical resource and a hub of activity for Navy Yard tenants and the surrounding community, admission to BLDG 92 is free to the public. Should you require sustenance and shopping therapy while exploring the exhibits and oral histories, the visitors\u2019 center boasts a small gift shop, and Brooklyn\u2019s own Ted & Honey will be serving up organic, locavore fare for breakfast and lunch in the center\u2019s caf\u00e9. Consider bringing your walking shoes and making a day of it. Cultural hot spots like BAM<\/a>, Galapagos Art Space<\/a> and St. Ann\u2019s Warehouse<\/a> are nearby, and culinary wonders like The Vinegar Hill House<\/a>, Luz Restaurant<\/a> and Chez Lola are just a stone\u2019s throw away.<\/p>\n

How to get there: <\/strong>Take the F train to York Street or the A train to High Street and walk to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. On Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6PM, the complimentary blue Brooklyn Navy Yard van will make continuous loops between BLDG 92 and downtown Brooklyn (intersection: Jay Street and Willoughby Street). It is easily accessible from the Jay St\/Metrotech station (A,C,F,N,R) and is a quick walk from Borough Hall Stations (2,3,4,5).<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of the author except black and white shots by Natl. Arch. Records. Adm.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Positioned between the neighborhoods of Vinegar Hill, Ft. Greene and Williamsburg, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has long stood as a historic landmark on the East River. It has not been easily accessible to the public until this past Veteran\u2019s Day weekend, when BLDG 92, the Brooklyn Navy Yard\u2019s exhibition and visitors center, finally opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":25630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,315,271],"tags":[125,254,110,18,421,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-25627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-day-trips","9":"category-news","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-free","12":"tag-historical-sites","13":"tag-museum","14":"tag-sustainable","15":"tag-waterfront"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":25630,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6356242607_8655fd5ae5-300x199.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}