November 07, 2007
Brooklyn Navy Yard Historical Center to open in 2010
The 206-year-old legendary Brooklyn Navy Yard, which built great battleships from the Civil War to WWII, is going to get its own $15 million historical center, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Historical Center would open in 2010, housed in a new structure and the U. S Marine Corps Commandant’s residence, which was built in 1857.
(See NewYorkology's pictures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Dry Dock No. 1 from last winter. For older images see the NY Public Library's Digital Gallery and the Brooklyn Public Library.)
The plan:BNYDC’s archive has preserved 35,000 architectural plans and is in the process of digitizing another 17,000 images from the National Archives that will supplement the content development for the exhibit. BNYDC is also partnering with a local author, Jennifer Egan, to develop an oral history through interviews with women who worked at the Navy Yard during WWII. This will be the first of a number of oral history projects that will be accessible both on-line and on site at the historical center The Historical Center would also provide offices for the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, (which already offers great off-the-beaten-path type tours of Brooklyn neighborhoods and waterways.)
November 7, 2007 02:34 PM in History, Museums, Out of Manhattan
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