Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present, and Future
Location: BLDG 92, 63 Flushing Avenue
Supporting Institution: Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92
“Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future” tells for the first time the story of the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, the 300-acre site nestled on the world-famous Brooklyn waterfront. Established in 1801 as one of the nation's first five naval shipyards, over 165 years the Yard developed into the nation’s premiere naval industrial facility.
Today, it is home to the greatest concentration of manufacturing and green businesses in New York City. This exhibition explores contributions made at the Yard to American industry, technology, innovation and manufacturing. Visitors will learn about the Yard's impact on labor, politics, education, and urban and environmental planning as well as discover some of the over 400 businesses that call the Yard home today.
Displayed over three floors in historic BLDG 92- built in 1858 for the Marine Commandant’s residence, this exhibition introduces to contemporary audiences the generations of people who worked, transformed, lived, and shaped the Yard over time and who continue to build upon the storied history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into the future.