Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Dumbo. Saturday, August 23 – 1 – 3 pm – with Joe Svehlak. An acronym for the old Brooklyn waterfront under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges is an amazing area of former industrial buildings converted to lofts and [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Gowanus. Saturday, August 16, 2-4 pm– with Francis Morrone. A walk through Gowanus opens a window on the industrial heritage of Brooklyn, and also shows a neighborhood in the midst of a very interesting transition. Gowanus is increasingly [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

The Other Islands of New York – East River & New York Bay. (Last Tour of the Season!) Sunday August 10 – 9:30-12 Noon – with Sharon Seitz & Stuart Miller. Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller, co-authors of [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Jamaica Bay Fringe Bike Tour. Saturday, July 19 – 1-4 pm – with Adam Schwartz. More a “two wheeled historical tour” than a group bike ride, this is just the best way to reach this rarely accessed corner [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Newtown Creek Cruise. Sunday, July 13 – 9:30 – 12 noon – with Jack Eichenbaum. This canalized creek, a tidal arm of the East River, forms the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens. Join us to cruise what [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Bats in Brooklyn! Friday, June 27, 7:45- 9 pm – with Paul Keim. Naturalist Paul Keim of the Brooklyn Bird Club leads a Prospect Park adventure in search of the fascinating bats that live behind the fences of [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as a Historic District. Saturday, June 21 – 11am – 1 pm - with Matt Postal. In July 1973, Park Slope became an historic district, preserving one of Brooklyn’s finest residential neighborhoods. [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Park Slope South - Southern Exposure. Sunday, June 15 – 3-5 pm – with Matt Postal. Explore Park Slope’s numbered streets, heading south from the Litchfield Villa. Both older and more architecturally varied than the blocks to the [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn. Saturday, May 31 – 2-4 pm – with Francis Morrone. Celebrate Whitman’s 209th birthday (5/31/1819)! The literary scholar Harold Bloom said that Whitman was the only American writer who could be put in the [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Saturday, May 17, 1-3 pm – with Adam Schwartz
Rust and Remembrance: Bushwick’s Southern End
Bushwick is a bustling neighborhood with a sleepier southern side. The historic houses lining these leafy streets date from a late 19th century real estate [...]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run:

Saturday, May 10, 2:00p- 4:00pm - with Dan Wiley
Gowanus Neighborhood Walking Tour
Dan Wiley will lead an interactive walking tour around CUE’s new backyard, to explore the legendary Gowanus Canal waterway and the area’s environment, history, architecture, and future [...]

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