On Saturday, July 26, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance will sponsor City of Water Day on Governors Island. Free ferries will transport visitors from Lower Manhattan to Governors Island, where there will be opportunities to kayak, canoe, fish, explore or just enjoy spectacular views of Brooklyn’s waterfront (Manhattan’s waterfront too, of course).
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Archive for May, 2008
City of Water Day at Governors Island
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Map of Greenpoint/Williamsburg Walking Tour
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here is a Google map of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg walking tour route. Most of the stops are marked and annotated. I hope those who couldn’t attend on May 2 will be able to use this to re-create the tour.
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Photos From the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Walking Tour
Posted in Events, Photos, Walking Tours, tagged Brooklyn, City Tech, CUNY, Greenpoint, walking tour, Williamsburg on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On May 2nd, Professor Dan Campo of Morgan State University led City Tech faculty members on a wide-ranging tour of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. As the group explored the industrial past and commercial present of this rapidly gentrifying area, it gained a sense of the changes that have taken place on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
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