Business
Photo via Brooklyn Brewery [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391731650841018.106982.155555111125341&type=3] .Brooklyn Brewery may be hopping southwards to the Brooklyn Navy Yard or Industry City. The news comes as these two locations, in Wallabout/Fort Greene/Clinton Hill and Sunset Park, respectively, are
Business
Photo via Brooklyn Brewery [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391731650841018.106982.155555111125341&type=3] .Brooklyn Brewery may be hopping southwards to the Brooklyn Navy Yard or Industry City! The news comes as these two locations, in Wallabout/Fort Greene/Clinton Hill and Sunset Park, respectively, are
Business
Image courtesy of Brooklyn Navy Yard Corporation.Last summer, we reported that Building 77 of the Brooklyn Navy Yard would be transformed — on its ground floors, at least — into a public food court [/blog/2015/07/29/a-food-court-and-community-space-will-connect-fort-greene-to-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/] and community space. Now we know what the anchor restaurant will be:
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Image via Brooklyn Navy Yard.Calling all bakers, prep cooks, dishwashers, and farm managers! The Brooklyn Navy Yard is hiring for companies housed on-site at the Yard, and Yard tenant Brooklyn Grange is hiring on their urban farm. Bring your resumes and photo ID to the Yard Employment Center at
fort greene
Image via The Marino Organization.Let there be light at Building 77. The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s largest building now has 393 window cut-outs on all sides that require it as part of the ongoing renovation and revitalization project that will eventually bring a public food hall [/blog/2015/07/
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Photo by Alan Cordova.There may be no Clinton Hill House Tour this year [/blog/2015/04/29/clinton-hill-house-tours-cancelled-for-this-year/], but we still have the annual Open House New York [http://www.ohny.org/] weekend coming up on October 17-18. The full list of tour sites were revealed yesterday and there
Boston Properties
Image by S9/Perkins Eastman.It turns out that the 14-story high, 500,000-square-foot building planned for Dock 72 [/blog/2015/05/06/500000-square-foot-wework-coworking-plus-apartment-space-coming-to-brooklyn-navy-yard/] in the Brooklyn Navy Yard won’t just house office space for businesses such as anchor tenant WeWork; it will also be home to a ground
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Image via Library of Congress / World-Telegram photo by Al Ravenna [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99472801/].Have you ever seen such orderly picketing lines? These men were photographed “milling around [the] street across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard during an electrical workers strike” in 1941, according to the caption
jobs
If your interest was peaked by our post earlier this month about available jobs [/blog/2015/01/08/forest-city-ratner-posts-job-listings-brooklyn-navy-yard/] in construction and management with Forest City Ratner’s modular housing factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, then take note: applicants must attend an information session either today, January 28, or
Politics
New York City will invest $140 million to bring a Brooklyn Navy Yard [http://brooklynnavyyard.org] building up to snuff for manufacturing purposes, increasing the workforce on the property by nearly 50%, according to Crain’s [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20141117/REAL_ESTATE/141119861/city-to-invest-140m-in-brooklyn-navy-yard] . With Comptroller Scott Stringer
agriculture
NYC Honey Week [http://www.nychoneyweek.com] starts this coming Monday, September 8! If you’re interested in the sweet stuff and how local beekeepers go about getting it made, you can join Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92 [http://bldg92.org] (63 Flushing Avenue near Cumberland Street) at one
albert einstein
You’ve probably never heard of Salvatore Cannavo. He hasn’t resided in Brooklyn, much less Bensonhurst, for at least 42 years. Why should we care? Well, he was born in a small town in Sicily named Castiglione in 1921. He emigrated from Italy at age 2 with his mother,