Navy Yard Neighbor BK: Recent Episodes
Julia Weeks
A new neighborhood beat highlighting local people and places to create community and belonging at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with artists Nate Dorr and Nathan Kensinger. In October 2019, Dorr and Kensinger created a guerilla video installation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard titled Admiral’s Row, 1864 – 2016. This installation was a memorial to a lost utopia that once stood inside the gates of the yard. For the last four decades a wild forest had grown unchecked in and around the abandoned mansions of Admiral’s Row, becoming an important six-acre green oasis along Brooklyn’s otherwise industrial waterfront.
You can view their video installation "Admiral's Row, 1864-2016" at the Old Stone House exhibit Brooklyn Utopias: 2020. https://theoldstonehouse.org/ndorr-nkensinger
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The last days of Admiral's Row's stately, neglected mansions: https://ny.curbed.com/2016/9/1/12732384/brooklyn-navy-yard-admirals-row-demolition
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Join us for a conversation with Emily Gallagher, a community activist in Northern Brooklyn. Gallagher has been organizing with her Greenpoint neighbors for tenant protections, environmental justice, and rights for survivors of sexual violence for over a decade. Now she’s on the ballot for New York State Assembly in November.
https://www.emilyforassembly.com/
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with with Tommy Safian, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Refoundry. Refoundry is on a mission to provide formerly incarcerated people with skills and opportunities to achieve financial independence and become leaders and job creators in our communities.
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Matt Shapiro, Legal Director, Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 1,800 active vendor members who are working together to create a vendors' movement for permanent change.
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with photographer Marj Kleinman, of Stoop Stories. Stoop Stories is a documentary portrait project highlighting how New Yorkers are coping with COVID and racial injustice. Since April, Stoop Stories has curated over 80 daily features of families, essential workers and small businesses. Their stories have appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York and PIX11 News.
http://www.marjkleinman.com/stoop-stories
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Aja Worthy-Davis, Executive Director for Public Affairs at NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worthy-Davis is a lifelong Fort Greene resident who currently works with city agencies (de Blasio administration).
On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Camille Johnese, CEO Mystic Kreations Co. Johnese created Mystic Kreations to help others with their healing journey through candles and herbal remedies. Her candles are all-natural, eco-friendly small-batch products made with the highest quality ingredients and cleansed and blessed before shipping.
https://www.mystickreationsco.com
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Rachel Bowers, owner of Brooklyn Bark. Founded in 2010, Brooklyn Bark has been raising the bar for pet care. Growing up with a rescue dog, Bowers learned the importance of animal trust and routine.
http://www.brooklynbark.com
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Lauren and Merlyn, co-creators of Brooklyn Mavens and your go-to women for everything Brooklyn! Brooklyn Mavens was created to share the authentic side of Brooklyn and what people might be missing due to gentrification and more.
https://www.instagram.com/bklynmavens
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Judy Willig, Executive Director at Heights and Hills, a nonprofit supporting Brooklyn's older adults. Heights and Hills was born out of a strong sense of community responsibility in 1971, when clergy and community advocates came together to support their aging neighbors.
They have always been pioneers in developing programs and services to support older Brooklynites to age in place as vital members of their communities. So in 2008, they took up the challenge of expanding overnight from serving 400 older adults in three communities to 1,200 in 19 diverse neighborhoods. Today, Height and Hills is one of the largest Brooklyn nonprofit organizations serving more than 4,000 older adults and their families.
https://www.heightsandhills.org
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Shaquana Boykin, District Leader candidate for New York's 57th Assembly District. Shaquana is a product of New York City public schools and earned an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Legal Studies at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology.
Before deciding to run for office in Brooklyn, Shaquana’s last position was as Myrtle Avenue’s Mayor’s Office Engagement Coordinator for NYCHA Ingersoll Houses. She led a group of 20 residents and 10 agencies through a planning process to improve safety at Ingersoll Houses.
https://www.shaquanaforbrooklyn.com/
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk to personal friend and Corcoran Group's real estate expert Betty Lee. Betty has been in the field for almost 20 years and will share with us her personal and professional insights in light of COVID19.
https://www.instagram.com/the_bettylee
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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk to Jacqueline VanDusen, of Brooklyn By Bike. VanDusen is a female cyclist biking EVERY block of Brooklyn. Her project started in spring 2017 and will end this summer.
https://www.instagram.com/bkbybike
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On today’s Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk to Cindy and Andrew of Turnstile Tours. Turnstile Tours’ mission is to advance public knowledge about the meaning of place, foster connections and understanding between people of diverse backgrounds, and inspire and reflect a culture of community participation through providing welcoming, well-researched, inclusive, and engaging experiences and resources to people of all ages and abilities. We chat about their upcoming programming and how they are responding to COVID-19.
https://turnstiletours.com