Brooklyn Navy Yard Highlights Tour in Brooklyn booking from $25.00

Brooklyn Navy Yard Highlights Tour

Overview

See a unique part of New York City and learn about US history and modern industry on this guided tour of Brooklyn Navy Yard, located on the borough’s historic waterfront. Gain unique insight into New York’s interesting naval legacy as you witness the yard’s dramatic transformation from the Revolutionary War to today. Your knowledgeable guide will lead you through one of the country's former leading naval shipbuilding facilities, and explain how it has become a major hub for New York City's design, technology, and manufacturing sectors. This is a great tour for history buffs and people interested in innovation, the working waterfront, and the manufacturing economy!

City: Brooklyn

Wed 06 Nov

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What's Included

2-hour tour

Knowledgeable and engaging guide

4-5 stops to visit historically significant sites

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
This tour is wheelchair- and stroller-accessible.
Assistive listening devices are available for guests, but must be requested at least 72 hours in advance of the tour date to ensure accommodations.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard can be reached by bus, on foot, by bicycle, and via the NYC public ferry system. The NYC ferries and city buses are accessible to people who use wheelchairs and strollers. Take the Astoria line ferry from East 34th Street or Pier 11/Wall Street in Manhattan to the Brooklyn Navy Yard ferry stop. Please plan your trip to the Yard in advance to ensure an early arrival.
Since portions of this tour will go indoors, proof of vaccination is required in order to participate. Please check to make sure that your proof and type of vaccination qualifies, according to NYC law: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keytonyc.page
Not recommended for people who have difficulty walking one mile
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Since a few portions of this tour will be indoors, NYC law requires that all participants demonstrate proof of vaccination status when checking in for the tour in order to participate. Learn more here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keytonyc.page

What To Expect

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One of our stops will include the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Visitor and Exhibition Center, where you'll learn about the naval history of the site and its transformation into a center of technology, manufacturing, and design today

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (44)

BaydeNoc

Sep 2019

Much of the Navy Yard Tour is driving and walking around buildings that contained many small businesses. Didn't go in any, but probably wouldn't have seen much anyway. Their highlight was all the funding and effort going into developing small businesses, which could have been absorbed by reading a couple paragraphs. Part of the tour was a description of the history of the yard. Not much maritime activity now, and looking at a couple dry docks didn't do much for us. Doug did do a good job leading the tour and explaining the facilities, but we were expecting to see much more interesting things, and left disappointed.

Response from Host

Sep 2019

We are concerned and dismayed by your review, and are sorry to learn that the experience of visiting the Brooklyn Navy Yard did not match your expectations. Our small, dedicated team works very hard to deliver informative, fulfilling, and engaging experiences of this historic and dynamic industrial facility, and we obviously don't want anyone to leave feeling disappointed. If you are willing, we would be sincerely grateful to have a conversation with you so that we can better understand what it was you were hoping for and how your visit to the site did not match up with your expectations so that we can better communicate with visitors about what they can expect to see and experience moving forward. As our Brooklyn Navy Yard Past, Present, and Future Tour is meant to be an introduction to and overview of the 300-acre industrial facility, we strive to cover most of the site's geography while visiting some of its most significant sites, all with the end goal of giving visitors a deeper sense of place and community - both about its important military history and its contemporary context. Through visiting a ship repair facility, piers and other waterfront sites, and buildings both old and new, we seek to bring the history of the Yard to life through the built environment, oral histories, photographs, and stories of historically significant events, while also highlighting stories that illuminate how the Yard today has become a center of New York City's manufacturing sector and industrial workforce. As I'm sure you can appreciate, this can be a challenging balance to strike, which is why we try to assess interests and make the tour interactive so that we can adapt accordingly and respond to questions and engage specific interests or stories that people might have or want to share throughout the experience. As for the facility itself, we would be interested in learning more about your expectations prior to visiting. Indeed, most of the former sub-assembly shops have been restored or renovated and are home to 450+ manufacturing and creative businesses, while the piers, dry docks, and other waterfront infrastructure at the Yard play an important role in the functioning of the port and are still important maritime assets for the region, including the largest ship repair facility in New York Harbor, the NYC Ferry home port, a major marine division of the Fire Department of New York, and businesses that bring in dry cargo from Canada. Needless to say, we are concerned about your feedback and if you'd be willing to speak with us directly, we would be grateful to learn more about your expectations and discuss your experience so we can avoid having other visitors feel this way in the future.

Bobnic24

Jul 2019

Very much enjoyed the Past, Present and Future tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A lot of history was covered for this location dating back to the Revolutionary war. Our guide Doug was very knowledge and enthusiastic and happy to encourage our questions. The views of the waterfront alone are worth the price of admission. Just be aware that on a hot and sunny day, parts of the tour are unavoidably in unshaded spots.

Brooklynite333

Jul 2019

Andrew was excellent - he had SUCH a good understanding of the details, trends and stories behind Brooklyn Navy Yard that the 2 hour tour during a hot day when by in a flash, and we left wanting more. Highly recommended.

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