Join us on June 24th as we visit the historic and developing Brooklyn waterfront, headlined recently by the opening of the new Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and its premier occupant, QUEEN MARY 2.
Meeting Locations
A) Meet at 2pm in front of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, Cadman Plaza side, for those wishing to take the entire tour. Subways #2,3 to Borough Hall; R to Court St; A,C,F to Jay St.-Borough Hall. (N.B. #4 temporarily not operating to Brooklyn on weekends)
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B) Meet at 3:15pm, corner of Van Brunt & Pioneer Streets, Red Hook, for those who arrive by car for on-street parking. Someone will be on hand to greet you from 2:45pm.

Itinerary
A) The first part of the tour will leave from Borough Hall and pause to see the NORMANDIE doors at Our Lady of Lebanon R.C. Church in Brooklyn Heights, then proceed south across Atlantic Avenue to the leafy Cobble Hill and into Red Hook to parallel the waterfront. Red Hook, a neighborhood few New Yorkers know much about, is undergoing major changes and will exhibit rundown and emerging blocks, new construction and historic preservation. After a leisurely two-mile walk…

B) At 3:15pm, we will rendezvous with the second group, at Van Brunt & Pioneer Streets, to view, from outside the perimeter, the new Brooklyn Cruise Terminal used primarily for Cunard Line and Princess Cruises. The 1.5-mile circuit continues along Van Brunt to a revitalized collection of Civil War-era waterfront warehouses, put to creative new uses, and originally built by William Beard to handle the shipping boom spurred by the opening of the Erie Canal and the burgeoning City of Brooklyn. Additional sites are Erie Basin, home to several harbor companies, the Waterfront Museum housed in a covered wooden Lehigh Valley Railroad barge, the remains of a trolley operation, and new recreational piers for viewing the Upper Bay, Governors Island and New Jersey. NORWEGIAN DAWN and NORWEGIAN SPIRIT are scheduled to depart at 4pm and pass Red Hook about 45 minutes later.

At the end of the tour (about 5pm), there are two convenient public transit alternatives: 1) B61 bus from Van Brunt & Van Dyck Streets to downtown Brooklyn for subway connections and 2) a brand-new New York Water Taxi service, twice an hour, from a dock where the tour ends to Battery Park ($5), then alternatively along the Hudson River to W. 44th or East River to E. 34th ($10/$6 senior). Timetables will be provided.

The tour is free and no reservations are needed.
For questions, contact Ted Scull: rrsstscull@aol.com or 212-535-6860
Driving & parking information, contact Brad Hatry: b.hatry@erols.com or 718-852-0728