Tour Info
Duration: 4+ Hours
Tour Includes: Tour guide, 2-3 tastings, 1-2 maker visits
Add-ons: Drinks, more food, team building activities
Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is a 16 building, 6 million commercial square foot redevelopment, with 5 acres of open space. It is the largest privately funded adaptive reuse project in the country.
With amazing restaurants, shops, artist studios, co-working spaces and more, locals and visitors alike can explore for hours on end. Originally built in 1906 as a intermodal shipping facility to support manufacturing and distribution of products, it served as an important industrial site, but over the years manufacturing evolved and left the city, the site fell into disrepair. In 2015, the buildings that comprise Industry City were purchased by the same developers as Chelsea Market.
There is so much to see on campus. Let Like a Local Tours do all the work. A couple savory tastings, a couple sweet tastings, plus we go behind the scenes on the ground floor and upstairs. Finish with a behind the scenes look at a working distillery and with a chance to shop the goods we’ve seen in the making (with special discounts!).
Your tour will include a visit to the 2-3 of the following food and beverage purveyors (depending on availability):
- Renegades of Sunset
- Li-Lac Chocolate
- One Girl Cookies
- Hometown BBQ
- Japan Village
- Table87 Pizza
- Fort Hamilton Distillery
Your tour will include a visit to the 2-3 of the following makers (depending on availability & interest):
- Saskia
- Soil to Studio
- Mr. Boddington’s Studio
- Christoph Pourney Leather Studio
- Nazz Forge
- Waplinger & Euell
- Micol Ceramics
Getting There:
Only three stops from Manhattan! Take the D, N or R subway to 36th Street in Brooklyn and then walk just two blocks!
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On your tour you will hear the term “social impact”, but what does that really mean? For us, social impact is making sure that we have a positive impact on the communities we live and work in, as well as the amazing places we explore with our tours. We believe that truly experiencing a place “like a local” means having meaningful engagement that supports local, community-based organizations and learning about their causes and the people making them happen. Just as we carefully select the places you’ll visit and the food you’ll try, we have also carefully selected our social impact partners to showcase the amazing work being done in our communities. Your patronage on our tours is a small act to help these initiatives flourish. We want to help our visitors explore NYC on an authentic level and make sure that we are all having a positive impact while doing it.
