June 14, 2007
Industrial Brooklyn waterfront on most endangered list
Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront today was ranked No.1 on a list of America's most endangered historic places as determined by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Any help that may muster comes far too late for the Graving Dock that Ikea has permission to fill in to build a parking lot, or the dismantled dome of the nearby Revere Sugar factory and now disappeared sunken lightship, the accidentally or suspiciously torched Greenpoint Terminal Market, or even the Old Dutch Mustard Company on Williamsburg's waterfront.
The Save Industrial Brooklyn website lists other would-be landmarks, including the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Domino Sugar Refinery buildings, the Cass Gilbert-designed Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse, along with the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Dumbo neighborhoods.
To see some of the Brooklyn waterfront by boat, try these upcoming tours:
Sunset Hidden Harbor Tours of Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey - June 20 and July 18
Tour of Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal from onboard the 1930s-era tugboat W.O. Decker - June 30
Earlier: Red Hook, Brooklyn - the 2007 rundown
Jane's Carousel again making the rounds in Dumbo
Queen Mary 2 returns to home port in Brooklyn
June 14, 2007 06:46 PM in Architecture, History, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours
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