by Tiffany Hickman, Ayako Hiratsuka, Yuwei Zhu, Peter Zhang, Welthy Lora

Definition of Historic/heritage Tourism— Historical tourism refers to a kind of tourism, where the tour or tour group focuses on the history; history of some place, people, thing, or events. They go, see, study, discuss and experience places where historical things occurred. The places will be a portrayal of history of that country or the region and tells about the past happenings. Tourists can visit those five places of historical importance to know about the culture, tradition, past happenings etc and get to know about the evolution and development in culture around Brooklyn Waterfront.

The navy yard— The Brooklyn Navy Yard covers over 200 acres and is located on the east river in Wallabout Basin. Following the American Revolution, the waterfront site was used to build merchant vessels and eventually became an active military installation in 1801. At its peak the yard employed up to 70,000 people for 24 hours a day. Today the yard has become an area of private manufacturing and commercial activity. Brooklyn Grange Farms operates a 65,000 square feet commercial farm on top of building 3.

Jane’s Carousel— Jane’s Carousel was made  by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1922. It has classic three-row machines and forty-eight horses in a pavilion designed by Jean Nouvel. Firstly, it was placed in Ohio. David and Jane Walentas, who are residents of Brooklyn, bought it at an auction in 1984. Mrs. Walentas fixed it in Dumbo for about 27 years. Afterwards, Walentas family donated the Carousel, the pavilion and money to improve the landscape in the Park to New York City. Finally, it is located on between Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge from 2011. If you ride on the horse and touch it, you may feel this historical background more.

Brooklyn Bridge— The Brooklyn Bridge is the oldest cable stayed bridge in New York. It spans East River and connect the borough of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It was completed in 1883 and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge and was dubbed “Eighth Wonder of the World”. The Brooklyn Bridge was initially designed by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling but he died from disease before construction started. Therefore his son 32-year-old son Washington Roebling took over his position to complete it. Walking through Brooklyn Bridge will be a effective activity to know more about it.

Barge Music— Going back in time, the Barge Music was founded in 1976 by 57 year old Olga Bloom and supported by Mark Peskanov. The Barge itself was built in 1899 serving as a working vessel for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in the New York Harbor, delivering hand-loaded sacks of coffee before being brought by Olga Bloom. The Barge is one of the many reason the Park has many tourist as it has been around for over 35 years and continue to create more histories of musician that perform and the audiences that enjoyed the concert. Blogs were created for the Barge because of how popular it was every year and became known as a Cultural Icon of the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Every year the Barge would be open at Thursday to Sunday for 52 weeks and become a historical icon for people to visit.

Ice cream factory— Tourists most of the times visit places and go on tours to get to know a place and enjoy the different types of food they serve. Tourists also visit places to learn about its history. In the Brooklyn Bridge Park and in the Brooklyn Bridge Waterfront there are many places where tourist can go visit and learn about its Historic/heritage. One place is the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. While a person/s is satisfying their Historic/heritage Tourism at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, an activity they would like to participate in while touring there is getting to eat the different types of ice cream they sell.