Category: Events
May Breakfast Talk: A Dying Waterfront Transformed with Joanne Witty
BWRC offered its final breakfast talk of the spring semester On May 19. The featured speaker was Joanne Witty, who discussed her recent book Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed, co-authored by the late Henrik Krogius. A lawyer …
February Breakfast Talk: “Shooting” the Brooklyn Waterfront – Two Photographers Talk About Their Work
BWRC presented our first Breakfast Talk of 2017 with photographers Robin Michals and Nathan Kensinger. Robin is an associate professor in the Communications Design department at CityTech while Nathan is a filmmaker and curator who writes for CurbedNY. Both started …
December Breakfast Talk: A Museum Comes to the Brooklyn Waterfront
On November 18, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center held its final Breakfast Talk of 2016. The featured speaker was Julie Golia, Director of Public History at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS). Golia discussed BHS’s exciting new venture: a satellite location …
First Breakfast Talk – Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Author Joseph Alexiou captivated the audience with a narrative history of the Gowanus Canal’s transformation from an idyllic tidal estuary into a major commercial waterway in the nineteenth century. Alexiou highlighted Gowanus’s significance to the Revolutionary War and how the …
Controversial BQX was the topic of our final Breakfast Talk of the semester
Harris Schechtman, National Director of Transit for Sam Schwartz Engineering, was our guest for the final BWRC Breakfast Talk of the semester (Mr. Schechtman replaced Mr. Schwartz, the originally scheduled speaker). Mr. Schechtman, who has over 40 years of experience …
Brooklyn’s Urban Farms: Production and Education Breakfast Panel
The BWRC held its first Breakfast Talk of the semester—and our first Breakfast Talk Panel conversation ever— on Friday, February 19th. We were pleased to present a panel of four highly-qualified experts on a topic that has been …
Brooklyn’s Urban Farms: Production and Education. Breakfast Talk on Friday, Feb. 19th
Although the current urban farming movement predates its arrival in Brooklyn, some of the most innovative and dynamic urban farming is being done in that borough. While urban farms address issues of sustainability, nutrition, and “food deserts,” they have always …
The New Coney Island: Who gains, who loses? Breakfast Talk on Nov. 13th
November 13th, 8:30am at the New York City College of Technology, come hear Neil DeMause speak about how Coney Island has been changing.
Coney Island is in the midst of one of the biggest overhauls in its century-plus history: a …
Historian David Herlihy Speaks on Bikes and Coney Island
The historian, David Herlihy, came to the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center on October 8. 2015 to present his recent research on the biking craze that hit Coney Island in the 1880s and lasted into the 1930s. His presentation touched upon …