Explore stunning Art Deco and much much more in beautiful Bay Ridge on Saturday, July 15 at 3 pm
Saturday, July 15
3 pm
Join us on a sail from the Wall Street area to the Brooklyn neighborhood that hugs the harbor, Bay Ridge; with its sweeping views of Lower Manhattan, Staten Island and the Verrazano Bridge, to experience this beautiful community. Once home of the Lenape tribe, it later became the Dutch settlement known as Yellow Hook and was primarily a farming community. In the 1800s it evolved into a place for the wealthy to summer, a suburban resort enclave. (Remnants from both periods can still be seen.) This community remained part of Long Island until 1896, when it became part of Brooklyn, only 2 years before the consolidation of New York City.
Bay Ridge’s development exploded at the turn of the 20th century due to access improvements in trolley, elevated railroad, and eventually subway service. Bay Ridge’s built environment remarkably appears much the same today as it did nearly a century ago. The remarkable architecture that resulted from this era is significantly intact and includes stately Art Deco and 1920s-30s apartment buildings, with original and ornate lobbies.
Join us on Saturday, July 15, as we dock at the historic 69th Street Pier, to embark on a tour of some of the neighborhood’s Art Deco gems, lead by Victoria Hofmo, founder of the Bay Ridge Conservancy, Kelly Carroll of the Historic Districts Council, and Meghan Weatherby of the Art Deco Society of New York. Additional stops highlighting uniform rowhouse blocks, historic wood frame farmhouses, Victorian mansions, and magnificent places of worship.
$30
Stay for dinner: the tour will conclude with a list of dining options in the Bay Ridge neighborhood, which has one of the most vibrant and highest concentration of restaurants in the borough of Brooklyn. Dinner is not included in your ticket.
(Please note this tour will begin in Bay Ridge not Wall Street)