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Events + Exhibitions

Brooklyn Navy Yard hosts a variety of events and exhibitions that are open to the public.

Events + Exhibitions

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Hip Hop Closet’s 3rd Annual Block Party

Date and Time:
Saturday, July 12, 2025
2-8 PM

Location:
Building 77
141 Flushing Ave

Join us for an unforgettable celebration of community, and culture at the 3rd Annual Hip Hop Closet Block Party — a high-energy day filled with music, fashion, food, and fun for the whole family!

Hip Hop Closet’s 3rd Annual Block Party is powered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation’s Beats & Eats Festival.

NYU Tandon Presents Artistic Innovation with AI

Date and Time:
Saturday, July 19 & Sunday, July 20
10 AM – 5 PM

Location:
NYU Tandon @ The Yard
Building 22
McDonough Ave

As part of NYU Tandon at the Yard’s 2025 Summer Workship series, NYU presents a two-day intensive workshop on image making, prompt engineering, and node-based workflows. Ideal for designers, artists, architects, creative technologists, coders, marketers, producers, and educators, attendees will move from a tour of today’s most powerful AI image platforms to building their own Stable Diffusion + ComfyUI pipeline.

Brooklyn Summer Beer, Wine, and Spirits Fest

Date and Time:
Saturday, July 26
1 – 4:30 PM & 6 – 9:30 PM

Location:
Building 77
141 Flushing Ave

Amp up your summer experience at the much-anticipated Brooklyn Summer, Beer, Wine, & More Fest! Attendees will sample a wide array of carefully curated beers, wines, and spirits that will cater to every palate. Discover new favorites and relish the unique flavors crafted by passionate breweries and wineries. This event is an outdoor adult experience for guests that are 21+.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

 

Public Art Installation: Our Brooklyn

Flushing Avenue
May 17 – November 2, 2025

Our Brooklyn is a temporary public art installation created by Brooklyn-based artist Phoebe Lo for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Celebrating the ways in which Brooklyn communities come together through work, social, and cultural life, the playful and colorful installation spans Flushing Avenue between Clermont Avenue and Carlton Avenue.

Using graphic shapes and icons, Lo’s work is representational and abstracted. The use of acrylic and painted wood creates eye-catching textures while also allowing for the play of light and shadows throughout the day. Lo’s work is soft and surreal and full of symbolism. Motivated by a lifelong dedication to play, she is not bound by one material and works in murals and public art sculptures.

Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present & Future

Building 92
Historic Marine Commandant’s Residence
Hours: Tuesdays- Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For tour schedule, click here.

Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present, and Future is a permanent exhibition at Building 92 that tells the story of the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1801, when it was founded as one of the nation’s first federal shipyards, through to the site’s use today as an active industrial and innovation hub that is home to hundreds of businesses. The exhibition is located across three floors inside the former residence of the Marine Commandant, an adaptively reused building that was originally constructed in 1858. Inside the exhibition, visitors will get an extensive history of the site through detailed wall text and a variety of artifacts and objects that span across centuries.

The exhibition is the first exhibition to tell the Yard’s story and was originally installed in 2011 with great community support from both organizations and neighborhood residents alike. Ultimately, the exhibition aims to introduce contemporary audiences to the generations of people who worked, transformed, lived, and shaped the Yard over time, and who continue to build upon the storied history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

OTHER WAYS TO ENGAGE

Check out workshops, programs and classes by Yard-based businesses.

Kings County Distillery

Weekly Distillery Tours & Whiskey Tasting Classes
View calendar here.

Bien Hecho

Woodworking Classes & Workshops

View classes here.

Brooklyn Clay Industries

Clay workshops on the potter’s wheel and for hand-building

View classes here.

Naval Cemetery Landscape

Enjoy a peaceful oasis from the city and observe flora and fauna native to Wallabout Bay.

More information here.