Pratt’s New Year’s Eve Whistle Blow
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Pratt New Years Eve
I wasn’t sure if the recently unfriendly Pratt would allow nonPratt people on campus for their annual New Year’s Eve Whistle Blow. It appears that they are as reported by The Local! Could this the breaking of the ice between Pratt and the Brooklyn community? I doubt it, but can only hope!
Since Pratt forbid me to even mention them on this site, I am quaking in my boots that I am mentioning their event here….
Here is the info on the fantastic evening which most of my friends say is worth the wait in the cold snow and late night.
Get there around 11 pm. Bring a thermos of some warm liquid to keep your bones cozy. It’s fun to walk around and socialize before the big event.
Pratt Campus located at
200 Willoughby Ave, you can also enter at DeKalb and Ryerson
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Directions to Brooklyn Campus
About the event from the Municipal Art Society: Steam whistles, salvaged from trains, riverboats, ocean liners and factories, are kept in Pratt’s steam-powered plant, the oldest, privately-owned, continuously operating, power plant of its kind in the country. Conrad Milster, Pratt’s longtime Chief Engineer, blew the first whistle of his collection on New Year’s Eve 1965. Over the past four decades his collection has grown, as has the popularity of his annual New Year’s Eve steam whistle blast. Pratt’s website boasts,
“Pulling the lever on the whistle from the U.S.S. Normandy and being enveloped in steam is an experience not to be missed.”
