Check out workshops, programs and classes by Yard-based businesses.
Black Boy Art Show
Date and Time:
Sunday, June 22, 2025
3-9 PM
Location:
Building 303, 9th Floor
399 Sands St
Black Boy Art Show is a national exhibition experience celebrating black male artists using various forms of media.
Hip Hop Closet’s 3rd Annual Block Party
Date and Time:
Saturday, June 12, 2025
2-8 PM
Location:
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.
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.
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