Pratt Institute, a renowned art and design school, is set to expand its presence at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The institute has signed a letter of intent with Brookfield Properties, the yard's developer, to lease an additional 100,000 square feet of space. This expansion will effectively double Pratt's current footprint at the yard, where its graduate center is already located. The move comes as Pratt Institute aims to offer more programs in fields such as engineering, architecture, and…

Author and professor Sharon Zukin looks at the history and the origens of the urban tech landscape, and how it has manifested in New York and elsewhere.

Today I’m delighted to share with you some of our New York City Navy Yard historical photographs that we have in our collection. The photographs displayed below range in terms of publication …

Liverpool 1946

brooklyn navy yard: great photos by Nathan Kensinger. This is drydock one.

Yesterday, we got a unique chance to see the dry docks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a unique angle: via the water. Most ferry boats and pleasure cruises rarely turn into the Navy Yard Basin (also known as Wallabout Bay), sticking to the most efficient path on the East River. But we were being taken to see the working waterfront in New York City aboard the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey, as part of the project to rehabilitate the S.S. Columbia, a passenger steamship from Detroit that will…

The list of tenants at the Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard continues to grow.

A company that designs and builds stores for hip brands and pop-ups shops has signed a large lease to move to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Bednark Studio is taking 62,000 square feet in the Green Manufacturing Center, a former shipbuilding warehouse on the waterfront. The new space, which…

Pigeons, new public space, and cocktails launch the Navy Yard's next era

Battleship in Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. - Columbia Digital Library Collections