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Built on a History of Success

Brooklyn Navy Yard Historical Center

Celebrating the Past, Present, and Future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard Exhibition Advisory Committee

Community Subcommittee

Michael Blaise Backer, Executive Director, Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
Sandi Franklin, Executive Director, Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Roberta Davenport, Principal, PS 307, Daniel Hale Williams School
Marilyn Gelber, Executive Director, Independence Community Foundation (represented by Stuart Post, ICFNY Program Officer)
Debra Lamb, Empowerment Network Achievement Manager, NYC Department of Education
Ronald McCain, Director, LL 11/98 Facades, NYC Dept. of Buildings, BNYDC Board Member
Rabbi David Niederman, Executive Director, United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, BNYDC Board Member

 

History Subcommittee

Jennifer Egan, Author & Journalist, partner on BNY Women during WWII oral history project
Joshua Freeman, Professor of History, Queens College & Gotham Center; Author, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II
Richard T. Kenney, Executive Director, NYC Council, Navy League
Ed Marolda, Senior Historian, Naval Historical Center
William Turner, BNYDC Board Member
Mike Wallace, co-Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham
Suzanne Wasserman, Director, Gotham Center
Craig Steven Wilder, Professor of History, Dartmouth

 

Exhibits Subcommittee

Amani Martin, HBO Producer
Kate Fermoile, VP Education & Exhibits, Brooklyn Historical Society
Pamela Green, Executive Director, Weeksville Historical Society
Ron Grele, former Director of the Columbia Oral History Research Office
Jay Kaplan, Director, Willendorf Division for Programs, Brooklyn Public Library
David Muller, BNY tenant & Principal, DCM Fabrication
Marilyn Pettit, Pratt SILS Professor
Gina Pollara, Executive Director, Franklin D. Roosevelt Monument Park
Tony Russell, Principal, Russell Design

 

 

 

BNY Historical Center Contact Information

Daniella Romano, Director of Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation
63 Flushing Avenue Unit 300
Brooklyn, NY 11205
(718) 907-5915 email: dromano@brooklynnavyyard.com

 
   
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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