This week in the Untapped Cities mailbag, an Untapped reader asked, via Twitter, after reading Ben Huff’s post The Brooklyn Navy Yard & Commandant’s House: Who lived in the Commandant’s House? The ...

Built in the first decade of the 19th Century, the Commandant’s House on the western edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard holds great allure, in part because it’s so hard to get a full glimpse of. On ...

As part of a Municipal Art Society Jane’s Walk with the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, we had a chance to check out the Navy Yard Hospital and the surrounding area. Our tour was led by Milton Puryear, ...

The house was featured in the Oscar-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” which depicts the life of Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children in the house just next to the concentration camp. As ...

As lonely as the lone church, the navy commandant’s house is tough to get a good look at unless you are inside the gates or on top of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s brick and barb wired wall.