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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with artists Nate Dorr and Nathan Kensinger. In October 2019, Dorr and Kensinger created a guerilla video installation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard titled Admiral’s Row, 1864 – 2016. This installation was a memorial to a lost utopia that once stood inside the gates of the yard. For the last four decades a wild forest had grown unchecked in and around the abandoned mansions of Admiral’s Row, becoming an important six-acre green oasis along Brooklyn’s otherwise industrial waterfront.  

You can view their video installation "Admiral's Row, 1864-2016" at the Old Stone House exhibit Brooklyn Utopias: 2020. https://theoldstonehouse.org/ndorr-nkensinger  

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The last days of Admiral's Row's stately, neglected mansions: https://ny.curbed.com/2016/9/1/12732384/brooklyn-navy-yard-admirals-row-demolition

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Join us for a conversation with Emily Gallagher, a community activist in Northern Brooklyn. Gallagher has been organizing with her Greenpoint neighbors for tenant protections, environmental justice, and rights for survivors of sexual violence for over a decade. Now she’s on the ballot for New York State Assembly in November. 

https://www.emilyforassembly.com/



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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with with Tommy Safian, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Refoundry. Refoundry is on a mission to provide formerly incarcerated people with skills and opportunities to achieve financial independence and become leaders and job creators in our communities.  

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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Matt Shapiro, Legal Director, Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 1,800 active vendor members who are working together to create a vendors' movement for permanent change.

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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with photographer Marj Kleinman, of Stoop Stories. Stoop Stories is a documentary portrait project highlighting how New Yorkers are coping with COVID and racial injustice. Since April, Stoop Stories has curated over 80 daily features of families, essential workers and small businesses. Their stories have appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York and PIX11 News.

http://www.marjkleinman.com/stoop-stories

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On today's Navy Yard Neighbor BK, we talk with Aja Worthy-Davis, Executive Director for Public Affairs at NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worthy-Davis is a lifelong Fort Greene resident who currently works with city agencies (de Blasio administration).