You’re invited to NYCEDC’s New York’s Next Top Makers Showcase for our 2015-16 cohort. Meet Next Top Makers companies from across the community before and after the program and hear presentations from our six Fellow companies. The event is invite only; cocktails and light fare will be served. The presentations will start promptly at 7pm.

Fellows
blink blink makes creative circuit kits that provide all the necessary tools to engineer your own arts, crafts and fashion projects with technology.

Dog Parker lets you safely board your dog while you step inside the grocery store, grab a cup of coffee or pick up a package from the post office.

Flextrapower's Bon Bouton is a smart clothes platform that lets you measure and track vitals and activity.

StrongArm Technologies is a creator of human performance equipment, dedicated to developing products that protect the industrial athletes of the world.

Thimble is a subscription service that delivers an electronics project right to your doorstep every month.

Wear.Works' Beyond Sight is a wearable haptic navigation device built to give you turn-by-turn and proximity directions using only vibration.

Easy Directions!

By car
Brooklyn Army Terminal is less than 20 minutes from Manhattan when taking either the Brooklyn Bridge or the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and connecting to the Gowanus Expressway (I-278). Staten Island and New Jersey are each easily accessible via the nearby Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Follow Google Maps directions for 80 58th St. Continue on 58th St. past the Annex building following signs for the Pier where free parking is provided.

By subway
The Brooklyn Army Terminal Annex is very easy to get to. By train, it is a 25-minute ride on the N or R from Manhattan to the the 59th St. stop, and then a ten minute walk to the waterfront. The Annex Building is on the southwest corner of 58th St. and 1st Ave. It will be clearly marked by balloons and revelry.

Shuttle
The BAT shuttle will be available to pick up guests at the scheduled times of 5:30pm and 6:30pm at the 59th St. N/R station and drop them off at BAT Building B (the main building). From there it is a quick walk over to the adjacent Annex building.

The shuttle will be available to pick guests up from Building B and drop them off at the 59th St. N/R station at the following times: 8:00pm, 8:20, 8:40, 9:00, 9:20, 9:40, 10:00.

Map

Any Questions?
Call or text Greg Spielberg: 207-522-6715

New York's Next Top Makers Showcase at Brooklyn Army Terminal