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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 2024-12-08, 9:30 am

Rain Date: NA

Location: New York, NY

Overview Description: Brooklyn Navy Yard

Full Description: For 165 years, the waterfront Brooklyn Navy Yard was a thriving shipbuilding hub. The brick warehouses now host industries like printing, fashion, and furniture, plus a food hall of local vendors, anchored by iconic deli Russ & Daughters. On the rooftops, there’s a farm (in summers) and a winery, while hip locals fill the tasting room at Kings County Distillery. BLDG 92 museum has exhibits on shipbuilding and offers tours. The site, which covers 225.15 acres (91.11 ha), is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Brooklyn Navy Yard’s mission is:
“To fuel New York City’s economic vitality by creating and preserving quality jobs, growing the City’s modern industrial sector and its businesses, and connecting the local community with the economic opportunity and resources of the Yard.”

For the map of the Brooklyn Navy yard, click on the “visitors map” on the left side of this page:
https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/directions-map/
It might be useful to print a copy and bring with you.

Parking inside the Yard is limited. On-street and metered parking are available outside of the Yard on Flushing Avenue and on many of the adjacent streets. Non-metered parking is available underneath the BQE along Park Avenue.

Sands Street Gate: this is where the on-site parking is closest to, so we will enter through this gate.
Entrance is on Navy Street, across from SP+ Parking garage. You can use this address in GPS: 26 Navy St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
If no parking is available inside the Navy Yard, then you can try SP+ Parking at 303 Sands St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (corner of Sands and Navy streets).

Other gates to access the Brooklyn Navy Yard:
• Clinton Street gate
• Cumberland Street gate- open 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
• The Clymer (Kent Street) gate – open 5:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday

We will start our visit at the Admiral’s Row. Meeting time is 9:30 am at the Admiral’s Row.
Admirals Row was a row of ten homes formerly used by naval officers, and owned by the National Guard of the United States. The houses were built between 1864 and 1901.

Then we will go over to the LEED Platinum-certified Brooklyn Navy Yard Center Building 92 to visit the art exhibits and installations in Building 92:
https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/exhibits/
One of them open 24 hours, the other opens at 9 am and the 3rd one opens at 11 am.

Lunch is at 12:30 pm at Building 77:
The Market @ 77 is a vibrant food hall located on the ground floor of Building 77 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, located at 141 Flushing Avenue. This culinary destination offers a diverse array of beloved food vendors – some of whom manufacture their wholesale products on-site – offering Market visitors everything from freshly baked bagels with lox to piping hot pizza and delicious tacos.
https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/marketat77/

Then we will walk to Dry Dock Number 1 and see the still-active dry-dock where ships are built and repaired. It is one of six dry docks at the yard, was completed in 1851 and is listed as a New York City designated landmark.

After that, next will be Building 293, where there is the “Wallabout Wonderland Holiday Market” (open 12-5 pm)
https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/programs-tours/wallabout-wonderland-holiday-market/
We need to book our place in it, even though it is free. Please go into this web address and “purchase” your ticket for the Holiday market for Sunday Dec 8th:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brooklyn-navy-yards-7th-annual-wallabout-wonderland-holiday-market-tickets-1070802211239

Before we leave, at 3 pm, we will attend the Distillery tour at Kings County Distillery is at 299 Sands St at the Gatehouses at the entrance to the Brooklyn Navy Yard close to where we parked. It is the oldest whiskey distillery in New York City since prohibition! We will take a tour of the Distillery and have a tasting, while learning about their process from milling, mashing, fermenting, and distilling then enter their barrel room for a tasting of some of their core products. It is at 3 pm and takes 45 min. And there are max 28 people allowed (same as the number of members signed up for this fieldtrip). Therefore, please buy your ticket asap by clicking at “Book A Tour” at:
https://www.kingscountydistillery.com/pages/tours
The cost is $20/person.

The trip should end around 4 pm.

(On the day that we are visiting, there is also a 2-hour guided walking tour 11am-1 pm, called World War II Tour for $25 ($22.50 for seniors). If you are inclined to do that, below is the link to purchase tickets:
https://turnstiletours.com/tour/brooklyn-navy-yard-world-war-ii-tour/)

Brooklyn Navy Yard
https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/
info@bnydc.org
718-907-5900

Kings County Distillery
https://www.kingscountydistillery.com/
(347) 689-4211
info@kingscountydistillery.com

Website Links: copy and paste the link into your browser https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/ https://www.kingscountydistillery.com/

Meetup Place: Admirals Row

Meetup Time: 9:30 am

Driving Distance: 1 hour

Leader Name: Dilek Ozler

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Quebec Winter Festival (overnight- Feb 14-17), 2025-02-14,

Rain Date: NA

Location: Quebec City, QC, Canada

Overview Description: Quebec Winter Festival, Quebec City, QC, Canada- overnight trip

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Every February, Quebec City hosts one of the world’s largest winter carnivals — a tradition that has been going strong since the 1950s. The 10-day celebration includes night parades, ice canoe racing, musical performances, and activities like snow bathing and tobogganing. But one of the major highlights is watching artists carve extraordinary snow sculptures.

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Leader Name: Dilek Ozler

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Sandy Hook Lighthouse, 2025-03-22,

Rain Date: NA

Location: Sandy Hook, NJ

Overview Description: Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Highlands, NJ

Full Description: The Sandy Hook Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. It is located at the northern end of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in the Highlands. Amazingly well-preserved, this unique octagonal tower dates back to the 18th century and has been in service since 1764. Except for being darkened during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I and II, the beacon has been operating ever since.

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Leader Name: Dilek Ozler

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Steel Stacks, 2025-04-27,

Rain Date: NA

Location: Bethlehem, PA

Overview Description: Steel Stacks, Bethlehem, PA

Full Description: This will be a trip to the historic plant of “Bethlehem Steel”, the second largest steel manufacturer in the nation located in the “Steel Stacks” campus. We will have the musical Sunday brunch in the famous Hotel Bethlehem, followed by the guided “the Rise and Fall of Bethlehem Steel” Walking Tour. Having some time in the Wind Creek Bethlehem Casino will also be an option. December is a time when the town of Bethlehem will be decorated with Christmas lights

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Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate and Preserve, , 2025-05-18,

Rain Date: NA

Location: Pleasantville, NY

Overview Description: Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate and Preserve, Pleasantville, NY

Full Description: Kykuit was home to four generations of the Rockefeller family, beginning with the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His business acumen made him, in his day, the richest man in America. Now a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this extraordinary landmark has been continuously and meticulously maintained for more than 100 years.

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Untermyer Gardens, , 2025-06-28,

Rain Date: NA

Location: Yonkers, NY

Overview Description: Untermyer Gardens,

Full Description: This 43-acre public garden, created in 1917 by Samuel and Minnie Untermyer, combines exceptional horticulture, monumental architecture, and multicultural design in a majestic natural setting overlooking the Hudson River.

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