Cycling along the Boardwalk at Coney Island is not new. In the 1880s, Coney Island was a frequent destination for club-oriented, high-wheel riders from New York City. During the great bicycle boom of the 1890s, Coney Island hosted numerous amateur …
Category: Events
BWRC Breakfast Talk on Stormwater Infrastructure on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway is May 8
The next BWRC Breakfast Talk will be on Friday, May 8th from 8:30am to 10:00am with Milton Puryear speaking about:
Capturing Stormwater Runoff Along the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway
- Can resiliency and recreation mix?
- Can the new Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway help
Eymund Diegel Discusses CSI on the Gowanus Canal
On February 27, 2015 urban planner and citizen scientist Eymund Diegel of the Public Lab gave an insightful breakfast talk on the various CSI techniques and tools he’s used to map and record the environmental history of his neighborhood including …
Breakfast Talk (2/27) CSI on the Waterfront
The first BWRC Breakfast Talk of 2015 is with Eymund Diegel on Friday, February 27 at Citytech in A632 from 8:30am to 10:00am:
Citizen
Science
Investigations
on the Waterfront
Urban planner and citizen-scientist Eymund Diegel has used …
Upcoming: Breakfast Talk (Feb 27th) and Art Conference (March 27th)
- February 27, 2015 – Breakfast Talk: CSI along the Waterfront
- March 27, 2015 – Conference: Spaces and Places: Art along the Brooklyn Waterfront
Walking New York City’s Waterfront Neighborhoods
Prof. William Helmreich gave the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center a colorful breakfast talk on his experience walking all 6,000 miles of New York City streets that he recorded in his book, The New York Nobody Knows. After he described his …
Tarry Hum Discusses Global Immigration and Development in Sunset Park
On October 24, 2014, Professor Tarry Hum gave a BWRC Breakfast Talk discussing Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, and Open Space: The Politics of a Sustainable Working Waterfront. This talk discussed how globalization has affected the jobs, buildings and …
Walking New York City’s Waterfront Neighborhoods Breakfast Talk is 11/14
Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, & Open Space: The Politics of a Sustainable Working Waterfront Breakfast Talk is Friday October 24
+ POOL Photos (and news coverage)
Thanks to everyone who came to the +POOL Breakfast Talk on May 9, 2014. Dong-Ping Wong and Carl Persak gave us an enlightening talk followed by an engaging discussion about their innovative, daring, environmentally friendly project.
News 12 Brooklyn was …