BWRC presents Breakfast Talk with Sam Schwartz
A-632Date: Friday, May 6, 2016 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Location: A632 RSVP: Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
Date: Friday, May 6, 2016 Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Location: A632 RSVP: Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
The first BWRC Breakfast Talk of 2016 is with author Joseph Alexiou on Friday, September 23 at City Tech from 8:30am to 10:00am
SAVE THE DATE! The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center's Next Breakfast Talk "Shooting" the Brooklyn Waterfront: Two Photographers Talk About Their Work with Robin Michals and Nathan Kensinger Coney Island, High Tide, 2013 Register! Admission is free. Robin Michals is a photographer whose work considers the built environment with a focus on the de-industrialized urban
Ethical Reasoning and Place-based Learning Facilitator: Prof. Karen Goodlad Presented by BWRC at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Keynote Lunch Speaker: Congressman Jerrold Nadler Website: https://nadler.house.gov/
Joanne Witty has had a long and varied career as a lawyer, environmentalist, political activist, and author. She has been a central figure in the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, as President of the Local Development Corporation that created its master plan, and as Vice-Chair of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation – the entity building
Join us for a lively conversation about environmental justice and gentrification along the Brooklyn waterfront when professors Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis discuss their new book, Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. Their book explores the social consequences of urban “greening” from the perspective of environmental justice and sustainable
The Red Hook Winery, located on a pier along the Brooklyn waterfront was founded in 2008. Come hear one of the winery’s three winemakers, Christopher Nicolson, speak about using grapes from New York State vineyards in the Finger Lakes and the L.I. North Fork regions to create a variety of unique wines that exhibit New
Panel discussion: Art at the Water’s Edge: Building Community along Brooklyn’s Waterfront Join us for a panel discussion of artists who use the Brooklyn waterfront as subject, inspiration, material, and place for their art. Moderated by BWRC’s Robin Michals, the panelists, each working in a different media, will explain what draws them to the waterfront