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Brooklyn Army Terminal

October 15, 2023

The Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) is a large warehouse complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City. The site occupies more than 95 acres (38 ha) between 58th and 63rd Streets west of Second Avenue, on Brooklyn's western shore. The complex was originally used as a United States Army Supply Terminal called the Brooklyn Army Base or Brooklyn Army Supply Base. It is now used for commercial and light industrial purposes and contains an NYC Ferry stop. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal
Side view
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Location58th–65th St. and 2nd Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates40°38′40″N 74°1′30″W / 40.64444°N 74.02500°W / 40.64444; -74.02500
Area97.2 acres (39.3 ha)
Built1918–19
ArchitectCass Gilbert
Architectural styleIndustrial
NRHP reference No.83001702[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 23, 1983

The Brooklyn Army Terminal was designed by Cass Gilbert. It contains two warehouses, three piers, several smaller administrative buildings, and rail sidings for loading cargo. When built, the warehouses were among the world's largest concrete structures. The Brooklyn Army Terminal adjoins the former Bush Terminal, which was used by the United States Navy.

The Brooklyn Army Terminal's construction was originally approved in 1918, during World War I, and was completed the following year after the conclusion of the war. The terminal was subsequently leased out and used for various purposes, including as a dock, a military prison, and a storage space for drugs and alcohol during Prohibition. During World War II, the terminal was the United States' largest military supply base. The United States Army stopped using the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1967, and the terminal was briefly used by the United States Postal Service and the Navy. The New York City government purchased the terminal in 1981; since then, the Brooklyn Army Terminal has undergone a series of renovations to make it suitable for commercial and light industrial use.

Description Edit

 
Abandoned railroad tracks inside building B's atrium
 
Close-up of staggered balconies inside the atrium

The Brooklyn Army Terminal covers about 97 acres (39 ha).[2] It includes two 8-story warehouses, three 2-story piers, several ancillary buildings, and a train storage yard with capacity for 2,200 cars.[3]

Warehouses A and B are located west of Second Avenue between 59th and 65th Streets, with warehouse A being located to the west of warehouse B.[4] Warehouse A had a footprint of 200 by 980 feet (61 by 299 m), while warehouse B measured 306 by 980 feet (93 by 299 m). The 980-foot-long sides of each structure run between 58th Street on the north and 63rd Street on the south.[3][4] Warehouse B was the world's largest building by floor area when it was completed.[5] Warehouse B contains a central atrium with two railroad tracks, both of which are disused and overgrown, and there are two old train cars permanently parked on the western track of the atrium. The loading balconies in the atrium of warehouse B are staggered diagonally, and a 5-short-ton (4.46-long-ton; 4.54-metric-ton) overhead movable crane moved cargo between the balconies.[6][7][8]

Three railroad tracks ran through the space between the warehouses.[4] An 8-story administration building measuring 60 by 260 feet (18 by 79 m) was located to the north of warehouse A. The warehouses and piers were connected to each other by footbridges on the third floors of each building.[3][4] A footbridge also separates the former administration building from the two warehouses.[9] There was also a power house, boiler room, and ash room. Each of the piers measured 1,300 feet (400 m) long; one of the piers was 130 feet (40 m) wide while the other two piers measured 130 feet (40 m) wide.[3][4] The piers were double-decked.[10] 58th Street, on the Brooklyn Army Terminal's northern side, separates the Army Terminal from Bush Terminal, which contains warehouses formerly used by the United States Navy.[11]

The railroad tracks connected to four car floats and a large rail yard along the western shore of Bay Ridge, to the south of Brooklyn Army Terminal.[3][4] The tracks also link to the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch and then to the New York Connecting Railroad, which provides a railroad connection to the rest of the continental United States.[3][12] The Brooklyn Army Terminal had over 13 miles (21 km) of tracks at its peak.[10] Although much of the trackage was abandoned by the 1970s, including the freight yards south of the terminal, a direct track connection from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the Bay Ridge Branch was established in 1973.[12] Some of the tracks are still used by New York New Jersey Rail (formerly New York Cross Harbor Railroad) to carry freight along the Sunset Park shorefront.[13][14] To the north, the tracks connected to Bush Terminal.[11]

Buildings A and B are operated by the New York City government as a light manufacturing space.[13] The former administration building was remade into a food-manufacturing complex in 2017.[15]

History Edit

Construction Edit

 
Seen from the Gowanus Expressway ramp

The complex was also known as the U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal and the Brooklyn Army Base, and was built as part of the New York Port of Embarkation. The Brooklyn Army Base was one of six United States Army terminals whose construction was approved by United States Congress on May 6, 1918, to accommodate Army activity during World War I.[3][16]

The base was designed by Cass Gilbert,[4] though Irving T. Bush, who operated the adjacent Bush Terminal to the north, also helped design the complex.[17][18] Construction started on May 15, 1918.[3][19] The city set aside $40 million for the completion of the complex.[3] Six thousand workers, employed by Turner Construction, helped build the Brooklyn Army Base. The scope of construction was so large that an additional train was added to subway timetables to transport workers from Manhattan to the future Army Base, and prospective workers would line up outside the construction site every morning. Several smaller contractors also helped build the complex.[3]

To save money and to reduce the use of steel, the structures were built out of reinforced poured in place concrete using wooden forms. The concrete floors were designed to support loads of 500 pounds per square foot (2,400 kg/m2).[3][9] The construction process used 7 million linear feet (2,100,000 m) of wood.[8] The Brooklyn Army Terminal was the world's largest concrete building complex at the time of construction.[4][9] Ultimately, the government spent $32 million on the terminal's construction.[20]

Military use Edit

The Brooklyn Army Base was completed in September 1919.[8][9] The base was able to accommodate 1,500 short tons (1,300 long tons; 1,400 metric tons) of outgoing freight per hour as well as 500,000 short tons (446,428.57 long tons; 453,592.37 t) of freight storage. As World War I had already ended, this full capacity was not used for some time. However, the Brooklyn Army Base was also designed for light industrial use so that it could be used as a civilian facility after the war ended.[4] As such, in 1920, the federal government began advertising five-year leases for parts of the base. The complex had a combined 4,680,000 square feet (435,000 m2) devoted to storage, which could support loads of up to 450,000 short tons (400,000 long tons; 410,000 t).[20] The next year, a law passed by Congress gave the United States Shipping Board access to all piers that the Army was not using.[21] In 1923, the federal government paid $2.4 million to the estate of William C. Langley, whose plot between 61st and 63rd Streets had been seized five years earlier to make way for the Brooklyn Army Base.[22] The same year, the Shipping Board started leasing piers 3 and 4 to private commercial tenants. The Atlantic Tidewater Terminal signed two 5-year leases for the upper floors of the warehouses, using them for storage. Under this arrangement, transatlantic liners were able to dock at the Brooklyn Army Base's piers.[21]

Starting in 1920, during Prohibition, two vaults on warehouse A's third and sixth floors were used to stock illicit alcoholic beverages, as well as narcotics.[23][24] The Army installed an incinerator in 1926 so it could destroy confiscated drinks.[25] In 1929, after a series of thefts, the U.S. Army constructed a heavily fortified vault on the seventh floor of warehouse A. Described by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as the "largest vault built anywhere for the storage of dangerous drugs", the room measured several hundred feet in each direction.[24] The Army also had a lab where it was able to test the chemical makeup of appropriated alcohol. Beverages deemed suitable for future medicinal use were retained, and the rest were dumped into New York Harbor. The lab was closed in 1933 after the end of Prohibition.[23]

An experimental barracks for transient service members was opened at Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1928. The barracks could accommodate 500 residents, and was designed for service members who were on leave or were awaiting discharge or transfer.[26] By the next year, civic leaders were suggesting that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey take over the operations of the piers at Brooklyn Army Base.[27] However, the base commander denied all rumors that the base would be abandoned or sold off.[28]

 
The terminal was a base for shipping to many regions during World War II, including mainland Portugal and the Azores.

In March 1930, officials announced that they would construct a military prison with a 125-prisoner capacity at Brooklyn Army Base. The prison, which would be one of three Army prisons in the United States, would house deserters and servicemembers convicted of high crimes. Community members objected to the prison, stating that there had been no prior consultation with the community.[29] Despite protests, the government decided to proceed with plans for the prison.[30]

The Brooklyn Army Terminal was the largest military supply base in the United States through World War II. The complex had its own railroad line as well as dedicated police and fire departments.[31] According to contemporary news articles, the Brooklyn Army Base saw 43,000,000 short tons (38,392,857.14 long tons; 39,008,943.82 metric tons) of cargo and was the point of departure for 3.5 million soldiers during World War II,[10][32] though the Brooklyn Army Terminal's website states that the Brooklyn Army Base handled 37,000,000 short tons (33,035,714.29 long tons; 33,565,835.38 metric tons) of cargo and 3.2 million soldiers.[33] The terminal employed 20,000 workers and served as the headquarters for the New York Port of Embarkation.[13] In mid-1941, the U.S. Army moved some civilian workers into more than 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) at Bush Terminal, spread across three buildings along First Avenue, because there was no more space at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[34]

A rigorous safety program, enacted after the war, resulted in an 85% decrease in industrial accidents at Brooklyn Army Terminal. The base was among the safest ports of embarkation in the United States, with an average of 0.194 accidents in marine transport operations occurring per 1,000,000 man-hours; by 1947, the port had only three incidents in two years.[35] In the aftermath of World War II, the Brooklyn Army Base received the bodies of several thousand soldiers who had died while fighting the war. The first boat carrying American World War II casualties back to the United States arrived in San Francisco in October 1947, whereupon the bodies were transported cross-country to Brooklyn Army Base.[36] A ship carrying 4,212 soldiers' bodies traveled directly to the Brooklyn Army Terminal the next month.[37] By July 1948, the base was receiving 18,500 soldiers' bodies within a span of two weeks.[38]

In the years after World War II ended, the Brooklyn Army Base was the port of arrival or departure for 200,000 soldiers per year. As per custom, the 328th Army Band would play every time troops arrived or departed from the base.[32] During the late 1950s, the base received Hungarian Revolution refugees, as well as victims of a 1956 crash between the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm.[39] In 1958, Private Elvis Presley sailed from Brooklyn Army Base to Germany alongside 1,170 other soldiers in the 3rd Armored Division.[13][9][33] By 1963, the Brooklyn Army Terminal employed 1,800 civilians and over 200 military personnel, and another 1,600 people lived at the terminal. At that point, the terminal received 4,500 short tons (4,000 long tons; 4,100 metric tons) of cargo every day from trucking operations, and another 2,500 short tons (2,232.14 long tons; 2,267.96 t) daily from rail operations.[10][32]

Closure of military base Edit

 
Seen from the New York Bay shorefront

The United States Department of Defense announced in May 1964 that it was considering closing Brooklyn Army Base, as well as Fort Jay and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as part of an effort to downsize unnecessary military installations and to save money. Immediately after the announcement, local officials and labor union leaders started advocating to save the military base from closure.[40] Despite advocacy efforts to save the base from closure, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced in November 1964 that the Brooklyn Army Terminal would be one of nearly a hundred military bases that would be closed.[41][42] Only the military function would be decommissioned, and 90 percent of civilian workers at Brooklyn Army Terminal would retain their jobs after the base was closed.[43] By 1965, it was confirmed that the Brooklyn Army Terminal would close to military use on January 1, 1967. Port of Embarkation activities would be relocated to the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. Some of the base's remaining activities would be relocated to the nearby Federal Office Building at 29th Street and Third Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn.[44]

Officials held a decommissioning ceremony on December 9, 1966.[45] Immediately afterward, the New York City government announced that it would acquire the terminal for maritime redevelopment.[46] The city planned to relocate its foreign-trade zone from Staten Island to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, where there would be more room for the foreign-trade zone's operations.[47] In addition, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits and the Brooklyn Army Terminal Development Committee discussed possible uses for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, including for the United States Post Office Department or for the Department of Defense.[48] A dispute arose between local business owners, who wanted a large post office facility in the terminal, and the city.[49] In June 1969, it was announced that the U.S. government would lease a 20-acre (8.1 ha) section of the base to the city for two years.[50] Afterward, the city continued to lease part of the base, and in turn, sublet the space to private companies.[39]

After a fire destroyed the Morgan General Mail Facility in Manhattan in December 1967, some of the Morgan Facility's operations were temporarily moved to the newly vacated Brooklyn Army Terminal.[51] Soon the Brooklyn Army Terminal facility was handling 18,000 bags of international mail every day. The facility employed four thousand workers, 75% of whom lived in Brooklyn.[52] A permanent facility to replace the Brooklyn Army Terminal operation was originally planned for Murray Hill, Manhattan, but in 1970 the planned facility was moved to Jersey City, New Jersey.[53] In December 1970, the government announced that it was going to close the post office facility at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[52]

Shipping operations at the Brooklyn Army Terminal resumed in 1970.[54] That same year, the federal government quietly proposed building a federal detention facility at the terminal to replace an overcrowded facility in Manhattan.[54][55] The Navy moved into the terminal in 1972, and renamed it the Military Ocean Terminal. The former Brooklyn Army Base now served as the headquarters for the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Atlantic.[56] Army shipping activities were permanently moved to Bayonne starting in 1974, saving the federal government $2 million per year.[57] The U.S. military had completely vacated the space by October 1975.[39]

Sale of terminal to city Edit

 
Atrium of building B

The United States Senate voted in August 1979 to allow the government of New York City to purchase and take over the terminal. A similar vote passed the United States House of Representatives that November.[58] Shortly afterward, the city began tendering proposals from developers who wanted to redevelop the terminal. The city received four proposals: of these, two were for industrial redevelopment, one was for residential development, and one was for mixed-use development. In September 1980, Helmsley-Spear Inc. was selected to develop an industrial site at Brooklyn Army Terminal,[59] in a format similar to at the nearby Bush Terminal.[60] The federal government and the city then began discussing a purchase price for the terminal, but negotiations stalled for two months because of disagreements over sale price. According to New York City Economic Development Commissioner Kenneth Schuman, after a tentative deal was struck with Helmsley-Spear, Inc., the U.S. General Services Administration rejected the sale price that the regional office had agreed to, and further talks between the city government and Helmsley-Spear were put on hold.[61]

By December, the federal government agreed to sell the terminal for $8.5 million; roughly half of the cost, or $4 million, would be paid by the city, while the remaining balance would be paid by the United States Economic Development Administration.[62][63] The federal government withheld aid for another several months, but finally approved the $4.5 million grant in April 1981.[64]

The two sides finalized the sale in July 1981.[65] In September of that year, Helmsley-Spear Inc. CEO Harry Helmsley announced that he was withdrawing the company from a tentative deal to sublet the Brooklyn Army Terminal from the city.[66][67] The withdrawal came after a disagreement over the lease terms when the city found out that Harry Helmsley, a partner in the company, was in the final stages of selling the Gair Industrial Buildings for development into a residential and commercial complex five miles to the south along the Brooklyn waterfront. Claiming  that this sale could increase the Army Terminal’s value, the city had proposed new terms in which it would receive a greater share of the profits from subleasing the terminal to industrial tenants[68].[69] By 1983, the city had hired Eastdil Realty, which was arranging for $20 million to rehabilitate the first building in the complex. Most of the $20 million would come from private sources, but the city would pledge $2 million and was awaiting another $5.6 million of federal Urban Development Action Grants. The city projected that a full renovation of the Brooklyn Army Terminal would take four years and cost $36 million.[70]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing includes 11 contributing buildings on an area of 97.2 acres (39.3 ha).[1][71]

Use as manufacturing hub Edit

The city government began completely renovating building B's northern half in 1985, adding 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of new leasable space.[72] As part of the renovations, the city installed electrical, plumbing, and heating infrastructure; replaced the elevators; added restrooms; landscaped and cleaned up the building's exterior; added a parking lot; and improved the loading docks.[73] The first phase consisted of 32 units of industrial space, which each had an average of 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of space.[74] The renovations cost approximately $33 million.[75] After the renovations were complete, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) started leasing the property as a center for dozens of light manufacturing, warehousing and back-office businesses,[33] with rents averaging $3.75 per square foot.[75] The first industrial tenants signed leases for space in the terminal in May 1987.[73] By August 1988, sixty percent of the available space had been leased,[75] rising to eighty percent by December.[74] All of the available space had been leased by October 1989.[76]

The Bibby Venture, one of the two first prison barges to be brought to New York City, was purchased and docked on the East River in summer 1988 as a result of overcrowding in the city's jails. However, by August 1988, it was moved to outside Brooklyn Army Terminal.[77] Its location outside the terminal was a temporary measure, necessitated because residents of neighborhoods along the East River objected to the barge's presence.[78] As originally planned, the barge would be moved to Pier 40 on the West Side of Manhattan by early 1989.[79] While docked at Brooklyn Army Terminal, the Bibby Venture was used to house prisoners awaiting trial.[77] However, residents of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge also objected to the prison barge, saying that they had not been consulted about the decision.[80] The Bibby Venture was moved to Pier 40 on the Hudson River in summer 1989.[81] The Bibby Venture and its sister barge Bibby Resolution were retired from use in 1992, to be replaced by the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center floating jail in the South Bronx,[82] and the barges were sold two years later.[83]

By late 1988, the city was planning to renovate another million square feet at a cost of $44.5 million.[75] During the renovation, the city would add 40 industrial units with an average of 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of floor space in each unit, as well as 4,700 square feet (440 m2) of retail space.[74] The city started signing leases for the space in 1990, just after construction on the second phase started.[84] Renovations also started on parts of Building A, and work on a 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m2) space in the building was completed in 1994.[85] Upgrades to an additional 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of space were completed in 1995.[86] A fourth phase of renovations was completed by 2003, adding another 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2). By that time, 2,600,000 square feet (240,000 m2) of space had been renovated.[87]

The city began offering public tours of Brooklyn Army Terminal's interior in 2013. The tours, offered two weekends a month, were offered through Turnstile Tours.[88][8] Two years later, the city started a $100 million rehabilitation of 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) in Building A. This stage's high costs were attributed to asbestos abatement and other cleanup.[13] The NYCEDC also started renovating the Administration Building into a food-manufacturing complex at a cost of $15 million.[9][89] The renovations also included the restoration of 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) of outdoor space, based on a design by WXY Architecture and Urban Design.[15][90] By 2016, there were 3,700 people working in Brooklyn Army Terminal, with a thousand more jobs planned over the following ten years.[9] The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio set up a job center at Brooklyn Army Terminal to help local residents with limited English proficiency obtain jobs at the terminal.[91]

NYC Ferry started operating to Brooklyn Army Terminal in May 2017.[92][90] The terminal's food manufacturing complex opened that June.[15] The renovation of the 500,000-square-foot space in Building A was completed in June 2018, just after the 100th anniversary of when construction started on the terminal. The refurbished area could accommodate an additional 20 companies.[93][94][91] By this time, the renovation of the terminal was 92% complete. The Brooklyn Army Terminal had 100 companies that collectively employed 3,800 workers, but the city projected that an additional 1,000 jobs would be added once leases were granted for all of the newly renovated space. Because of the decline of traditional manufacturing in Brooklyn, most of the new tenants were companies that worked in the technology, media, food, or manufacturing sectors, while the city had stopped renewing leases for tenants that primarily worked in distribution and storage.[95] The total cost of restoring the complex was projected to be $280 million by 2016,[9] a cost that had risen to $300 million in 2018.[95] In January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, a "mega-facility" vaccination site for COVID-19 vaccinations was opened at Brooklyn Army Terminal, operating 24/7.[96]

Transportation Edit

The piers at Brooklyn Army Terminal are used by NYC Ferry's Rockaway and South Brooklyn routes.[97][98] MTA Regional Bus Operations' B11 route terminates outside Brooklyn Army Terminal, while the B37 route stops along Third Avenue, close to the terminal.[99] The nearest New York City Subway station is at 59th Street and Fourth Avenue, served by the N​ and ​R trains.[100][99] A bike trail, part of the Sunset Park Greenway, connects the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Owl's Head Park to the south.[101]

Ferry service Edit

 
NYC Ferry stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal

A fast ferry service from Brooklyn Army Terminal to Manhattan was first proposed in 1994 as a way to revitalize Sunset Park. The boat service was expected to start service in 1997 at a cost of $25 million, and would include a new pier at 59th Street as well as a 500-space parking lot at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[102] This ferry service was operating by late 1997, bringing increased economic activity to the Brooklyn Army Terminal area as a result.[103]

After subway service in Lower Manhattan was disrupted following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the city established a free ferry service from the Brooklyn Army Terminal's 58th Street Pier to Pier 11/Wall Street, using funds provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.[104] New York Water Taxi took over the route in 2003 and instituted a fare.[105] In 2008, New York Water Taxi established a route between Pier 11 and Breezy Point, Queens, with a stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[106] This service was indefinitely suspended in 2010 due to lack of funding.[107]

In the aftermath of subway disruptions arising from Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, SeaStreak began running a route from Rockaway Park, Queens, to Pier 11 and the East 34th Street ferry terminal. The ferry route charged a $2 fare for each passenger.[108] A stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal was added to those trips in August 2013, following the closure of the Montague Street subway tunnel, which suspended direct service on the R train between Brooklyn and Manhattan.[109] The ferry service proved to be popular with locals; about 250 passengers per day rode the ferry between Brooklyn Army Terminal and Manhattan, in addition to approximately 730 daily passengers riding the ferry between Rockaway and Manhattan.[110] The ferry route carried nearly 200,000 passengers between its inception and mid-2014.[111] The route was renewed several times through mid-2014,[112][113][114] but was discontinued on October 31, 2014 because of a lack of funding.[115]

On May 1, 2017, NYC Ferry's Rockaway route[97] started operating between Pier 11/Wall Street in Manhattan's Financial District and Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Park, with a stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal.[92] The terminal is also served by NYC Ferry's South Brooklyn route,[98] which started running on June 1, 2017.[116]

Notable tenants Edit

 
Footbridge on the north side of the terminal, as seen at sunset

Brooklyn Army Terminal is also home to a number of tenants specializing across a varied degree of industries. Notable tenants include:

See also Edit

References Edit

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brooklyn Army Terminal.
  • Official website
  • Atrium from Google Maps Street View
  • Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Upper New York Bay from Fifty-eighth to Sixty-fourth Streets, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY:
    • HAER No. NY-202, "Brooklyn Army Supply Base", 1 photo, 20 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
    • HAER No. NY-202-A, "Brooklyn Army Supply Base, Pier 1", 4 photos, 8 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
    • HAER No. NY-202-B, "Brooklyn Army Supply Base, Pier 2", 20 photos, 3 photo caption pages
    • HAER No. NY-202-C, "Brooklyn Army Supply Base, Pier 3", 3 photos, 2 photo caption pages
    • HAER No. NY-202-D, "Brooklyn Army Supply Base, Pier 4", 22 photos, 32 data pages, 3 photo caption pages

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The Brooklyn Army Terminal BAT is a large warehouse complex in Sunset Park Brooklyn New York City The site occupies more than 95 acres 38 ha between 58th and 63rd Streets west of Second Avenue on Brooklyn s western shore The complex was originally used as a United States Army Supply Terminal called the Brooklyn Army Base or Brooklyn Army Supply Base It is now used for commercial and light industrial purposes and contains an NYC Ferry stop The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 U S Army Military Ocean TerminalU S National Register of Historic PlacesSide viewBrooklyn Army TerminalShow map of New York CityBrooklyn Army TerminalShow map of New YorkBrooklyn Army TerminalShow map of the United StatesLocation58th 65th St and 2nd Ave Brooklyn New YorkCoordinates40 38 40 N 74 1 30 W 40 64444 N 74 02500 W 40 64444 74 02500Area97 2 acres 39 3 ha Built1918 19ArchitectCass GilbertArchitectural styleIndustrialNRHP reference No 83001702 1 Added to NRHPSeptember 23 1983The Brooklyn Army Terminal was designed by Cass Gilbert It contains two warehouses three piers several smaller administrative buildings and rail sidings for loading cargo When built the warehouses were among the world s largest concrete structures The Brooklyn Army Terminal adjoins the former Bush Terminal which was used by the United States Navy The Brooklyn Army Terminal s construction was originally approved in 1918 during World War I and was completed the following year after the conclusion of the war The terminal was subsequently leased out and used for various purposes including as a dock a military prison and a storage space for drugs and alcohol during Prohibition During World War II the terminal was the United States largest military supply base The United States Army stopped using the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1967 and the terminal was briefly used by the United States Postal Service and the Navy The New York City government purchased the terminal in 1981 since then the Brooklyn Army Terminal has undergone a series of renovations to make it suitable for commercial and light industrial use Contents 1 Description 2 History 2 1 Construction 2 2 Military use 2 3 Closure of military base 2 4 Sale of terminal to city 2 5 Use as manufacturing hub 3 Transportation 3 1 Ferry service 4 Notable tenants 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksDescription Edit nbsp Abandoned railroad tracks inside building B s atrium nbsp Close up of staggered balconies inside the atrium The Brooklyn Army Terminal covers about 97 acres 39 ha 2 It includes two 8 story warehouses three 2 story piers several ancillary buildings and a train storage yard with capacity for 2 200 cars 3 Warehouses A and B are located west of Second Avenue between 59th and 65th Streets with warehouse A being located to the west of warehouse B 4 Warehouse A had a footprint of 200 by 980 feet 61 by 299 m while warehouse B measured 306 by 980 feet 93 by 299 m The 980 foot long sides of each structure run between 58th Street on the north and 63rd Street on the south 3 4 Warehouse B was the world s largest building by floor area when it was completed 5 Warehouse B contains a central atrium with two railroad tracks both of which are disused and overgrown and there are two old train cars permanently parked on the western track of the atrium The loading balconies in the atrium of warehouse B are staggered diagonally and a 5 short ton 4 46 long ton 4 54 metric ton overhead movable crane moved cargo between the balconies 6 7 8 Three railroad tracks ran through the space between the warehouses 4 An 8 story administration building measuring 60 by 260 feet 18 by 79 m was located to the north of warehouse A The warehouses and piers were connected to each other by footbridges on the third floors of each building 3 4 A footbridge also separates the former administration building from the two warehouses 9 There was also a power house boiler room and ash room Each of the piers measured 1 300 feet 400 m long one of the piers was 130 feet 40 m wide while the other two piers measured 130 feet 40 m wide 3 4 The piers were double decked 10 58th Street on the Brooklyn Army Terminal s northern side separates the Army Terminal from Bush Terminal which contains warehouses formerly used by the United States Navy 11 The railroad tracks connected to four car floats and a large rail yard along the western shore of Bay Ridge to the south of Brooklyn Army Terminal 3 4 The tracks also link to the Long Island Rail Road s Bay Ridge Branch and then to the New York Connecting Railroad which provides a railroad connection to the rest of the continental United States 3 12 The Brooklyn Army Terminal had over 13 miles 21 km of tracks at its peak 10 Although much of the trackage was abandoned by the 1970s including the freight yards south of the terminal a direct track connection from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the Bay Ridge Branch was established in 1973 12 Some of the tracks are still used by New York New Jersey Rail formerly New York Cross Harbor Railroad to carry freight along the Sunset Park shorefront 13 14 To the north the tracks connected to Bush Terminal 11 Buildings A and B are operated by the New York City government as a light manufacturing space 13 The former administration building was remade into a food manufacturing complex in 2017 15 History EditConstruction Edit nbsp Seen from the Gowanus Expressway rampThe complex was also known as the U S Army Military Ocean Terminal and the Brooklyn Army Base and was built as part of the New York Port of Embarkation The Brooklyn Army Base was one of six United States Army terminals whose construction was approved by United States Congress on May 6 1918 to accommodate Army activity during World War I 3 16 The base was designed by Cass Gilbert 4 though Irving T Bush who operated the adjacent Bush Terminal to the north also helped design the complex 17 18 Construction started on May 15 1918 3 19 The city set aside 40 million for the completion of the complex 3 Six thousand workers employed by Turner Construction helped build the Brooklyn Army Base The scope of construction was so large that an additional train was added to subway timetables to transport workers from Manhattan to the future Army Base and prospective workers would line up outside the construction site every morning Several smaller contractors also helped build the complex 3 To save money and to reduce the use of steel the structures were built out of reinforced poured in place concrete using wooden forms The concrete floors were designed to support loads of 500 pounds per square foot 2 400 kg m2 3 9 The construction process used 7 million linear feet 2 100 000 m of wood 8 The Brooklyn Army Terminal was the world s largest concrete building complex at the time of construction 4 9 Ultimately the government spent 32 million on the terminal s construction 20 Military use Edit The Brooklyn Army Base was completed in September 1919 8 9 The base was able to accommodate 1 500 short tons 1 300 long tons 1 400 metric tons of outgoing freight per hour as well as 500 000 short tons 446 428 57 long tons 453 592 37 t of freight storage As World War I had already ended this full capacity was not used for some time However the Brooklyn Army Base was also designed for light industrial use so that it could be used as a civilian facility after the war ended 4 As such in 1920 the federal government began advertising five year leases for parts of the base The complex had a combined 4 680 000 square feet 435 000 m2 devoted to storage which could support loads of up to 450 000 short tons 400 000 long tons 410 000 t 20 The next year a law passed by Congress gave the United States Shipping Board access to all piers that the Army was not using 21 In 1923 the federal government paid 2 4 million to the estate of William C Langley whose plot between 61st and 63rd Streets had been seized five years earlier to make way for the Brooklyn Army Base 22 The same year the Shipping Board started leasing piers 3 and 4 to private commercial tenants The Atlantic Tidewater Terminal signed two 5 year leases for the upper floors of the warehouses using them for storage Under this arrangement transatlantic liners were able to dock at the Brooklyn Army Base s piers 21 Starting in 1920 during Prohibition two vaults on warehouse A s third and sixth floors were used to stock illicit alcoholic beverages as well as narcotics 23 24 The Army installed an incinerator in 1926 so it could destroy confiscated drinks 25 In 1929 after a series of thefts the U S Army constructed a heavily fortified vault on the seventh floor of warehouse A Described by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as the largest vault built anywhere for the storage of dangerous drugs the room measured several hundred feet in each direction 24 The Army also had a lab where it was able to test the chemical makeup of appropriated alcohol Beverages deemed suitable for future medicinal use were retained and the rest were dumped into New York Harbor The lab was closed in 1933 after the end of Prohibition 23 An experimental barracks for transient service members was opened at Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1928 The barracks could accommodate 500 residents and was designed for service members who were on leave or were awaiting discharge or transfer 26 By the next year civic leaders were suggesting that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey take over the operations of the piers at Brooklyn Army Base 27 However the base commander denied all rumors that the base would be abandoned or sold off 28 nbsp The terminal was a base for shipping to many regions during World War II including mainland Portugal and the Azores In March 1930 officials announced that they would construct a military prison with a 125 prisoner capacity at Brooklyn Army Base The prison which would be one of three Army prisons in the United States would house deserters and servicemembers convicted of high crimes Community members objected to the prison stating that there had been no prior consultation with the community 29 Despite protests the government decided to proceed with plans for the prison 30 The Brooklyn Army Terminal was the largest military supply base in the United States through World War II The complex had its own railroad line as well as dedicated police and fire departments 31 According to contemporary news articles the Brooklyn Army Base saw 43 000 000 short tons 38 392 857 14 long tons 39 008 943 82 metric tons of cargo and was the point of departure for 3 5 million soldiers during World War II 10 32 though the Brooklyn Army Terminal s website states that the Brooklyn Army Base handled 37 000 000 short tons 33 035 714 29 long tons 33 565 835 38 metric tons of cargo and 3 2 million soldiers 33 The terminal employed 20 000 workers and served as the headquarters for the New York Port of Embarkation 13 In mid 1941 the U S Army moved some civilian workers into more than 500 000 square feet 46 000 m2 at Bush Terminal spread across three buildings along First Avenue because there was no more space at Brooklyn Army Terminal 34 A rigorous safety program enacted after the war resulted in an 85 decrease in industrial accidents at Brooklyn Army Terminal The base was among the safest ports of embarkation in the United States with an average of 0 194 accidents in marine transport operations occurring per 1 000 000 man hours by 1947 the port had only three incidents in two years 35 In the aftermath of World War II the Brooklyn Army Base received the bodies of several thousand soldiers who had died while fighting the war The first boat carrying American World War II casualties back to the United States arrived in San Francisco in October 1947 whereupon the bodies were transported cross country to Brooklyn Army Base 36 A ship carrying 4 212 soldiers bodies traveled directly to the Brooklyn Army Terminal the next month 37 By July 1948 the base was receiving 18 500 soldiers bodies within a span of two weeks 38 In the years after World War II ended the Brooklyn Army Base was the port of arrival or departure for 200 000 soldiers per year As per custom the 328th Army Band would play every time troops arrived or departed from the base 32 During the late 1950s the base received Hungarian Revolution refugees as well as victims of a 1956 crash between the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm 39 In 1958 Private Elvis Presley sailed from Brooklyn Army Base to Germany alongside 1 170 other soldiers in the 3rd Armored Division 13 9 33 By 1963 the Brooklyn Army Terminal employed 1 800 civilians and over 200 military personnel and another 1 600 people lived at the terminal At that point the terminal received 4 500 short tons 4 000 long tons 4 100 metric tons of cargo every day from trucking operations and another 2 500 short tons 2 232 14 long tons 2 267 96 t daily from rail operations 10 32 Closure of military base Edit nbsp Seen from the New York Bay shorefrontThe United States Department of Defense announced in May 1964 that it was considering closing Brooklyn Army Base as well as Fort Jay and the Brooklyn Navy Yard as part of an effort to downsize unnecessary military installations and to save money Immediately after the announcement local officials and labor union leaders started advocating to save the military base from closure 40 Despite advocacy efforts to save the base from closure Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced in November 1964 that the Brooklyn Army Terminal would be one of nearly a hundred military bases that would be closed 41 42 Only the military function would be decommissioned and 90 percent of civilian workers at Brooklyn Army Terminal would retain their jobs after the base was closed 43 By 1965 it was confirmed that the Brooklyn Army Terminal would close to military use on January 1 1967 Port of Embarkation activities would be relocated to the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne New Jersey Some of the base s remaining activities would be relocated to the nearby Federal Office Building at 29th Street and Third Avenue in Gowanus Brooklyn 44 Officials held a decommissioning ceremony on December 9 1966 45 Immediately afterward the New York City government announced that it would acquire the terminal for maritime redevelopment 46 The city planned to relocate its foreign trade zone from Staten Island to the Brooklyn Army Terminal where there would be more room for the foreign trade zone s operations 47 In addition U S Senator Jacob Javits and the Brooklyn Army Terminal Development Committee discussed possible uses for the Brooklyn Army Terminal including for the United States Post Office Department or for the Department of Defense 48 A dispute arose between local business owners who wanted a large post office facility in the terminal and the city 49 In June 1969 it was announced that the U S government would lease a 20 acre 8 1 ha section of the base to the city for two years 50 Afterward the city continued to lease part of the base and in turn sublet the space to private companies 39 After a fire destroyed the Morgan General Mail Facility in Manhattan in December 1967 some of the Morgan Facility s operations were temporarily moved to the newly vacated Brooklyn Army Terminal 51 Soon the Brooklyn Army Terminal facility was handling 18 000 bags of international mail every day The facility employed four thousand workers 75 of whom lived in Brooklyn 52 A permanent facility to replace the Brooklyn Army Terminal operation was originally planned for Murray Hill Manhattan but in 1970 the planned facility was moved to Jersey City New Jersey 53 In December 1970 the government announced that it was going to close the post office facility at Brooklyn Army Terminal 52 Shipping operations at the Brooklyn Army Terminal resumed in 1970 54 That same year the federal government quietly proposed building a federal detention facility at the terminal to replace an overcrowded facility in Manhattan 54 55 The Navy moved into the terminal in 1972 and renamed it the Military Ocean Terminal The former Brooklyn Army Base now served as the headquarters for the Military Sealift Command MSC Atlantic 56 Army shipping activities were permanently moved to Bayonne starting in 1974 saving the federal government 2 million per year 57 The U S military had completely vacated the space by October 1975 39 Sale of terminal to city Edit nbsp Atrium of building BThe United States Senate voted in August 1979 to allow the government of New York City to purchase and take over the terminal A similar vote passed the United States House of Representatives that November 58 Shortly afterward the city began tendering proposals from developers who wanted to redevelop the terminal The city received four proposals of these two were for industrial redevelopment one was for residential development and one was for mixed use development In September 1980 Helmsley Spear Inc was selected to develop an industrial site at Brooklyn Army Terminal 59 in a format similar to at the nearby Bush Terminal 60 The federal government and the city then began discussing a purchase price for the terminal but negotiations stalled for two months because of disagreements over sale price According to New York City Economic Development Commissioner Kenneth Schuman after a tentative deal was struck with Helmsley Spear Inc the U S General Services Administration rejected the sale price that the regional office had agreed to and further talks between the city government and Helmsley Spear were put on hold 61 By December the federal government agreed to sell the terminal for 8 5 million roughly half of the cost or 4 million would be paid by the city while the remaining balance would be paid by the United States Economic Development Administration 62 63 The federal government withheld aid for another several months but finally approved the 4 5 million grant in April 1981 64 The two sides finalized the sale in July 1981 65 In September of that year Helmsley Spear Inc CEO Harry Helmsley announced that he was withdrawing the company from a tentative deal to sublet the Brooklyn Army Terminal from the city 66 67 The withdrawal came after a disagreement over the lease terms when the city found out that Harry Helmsley a partner in the company was in the final stages of selling the Gair Industrial Buildings for development into a residential and commercial complex five miles to the south along the Brooklyn waterfront Claiming that this sale could increase the Army Terminal s value the city had proposed new terms in which it would receive a greater share of the profits from subleasing the terminal to industrial tenants 68 69 By 1983 the city had hired Eastdil Realty which was arranging for 20 million to rehabilitate the first building in the complex Most of the 20 million would come from private sources but the city would pledge 2 million and was awaiting another 5 6 million of federal Urban Development Action Grants The city projected that a full renovation of the Brooklyn Army Terminal would take four years and cost 36 million 70 The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 The listing includes 11 contributing buildings on an area of 97 2 acres 39 3 ha 1 71 Use as manufacturing hub Edit The city government began completely renovating building B s northern half in 1985 adding 1 000 000 square feet 93 000 m2 of new leasable space 72 As part of the renovations the city installed electrical plumbing and heating infrastructure replaced the elevators added restrooms landscaped and cleaned up the building s exterior added a parking lot and improved the loading docks 73 The first phase consisted of 32 units of industrial space which each had an average of 30 000 square feet 2 800 m2 of space 74 The renovations cost approximately 33 million 75 After the renovations were complete the New York City Economic Development Corporation NYCEDC started leasing the property as a center for dozens of light manufacturing warehousing and back office businesses 33 with rents averaging 3 75 per square foot 75 The first industrial tenants signed leases for space in the terminal in May 1987 73 By August 1988 sixty percent of the available space had been leased 75 rising to eighty percent by December 74 All of the available space had been leased by October 1989 76 The Bibby Venture one of the two first prison barges to be brought to New York City was purchased and docked on the East River in summer 1988 as a result of overcrowding in the city s jails However by August 1988 it was moved to outside Brooklyn Army Terminal 77 Its location outside the terminal was a temporary measure necessitated because residents of neighborhoods along the East River objected to the barge s presence 78 As originally planned the barge would be moved to Pier 40 on the West Side of Manhattan by early 1989 79 While docked at Brooklyn Army Terminal the Bibby Venture was used to house prisoners awaiting trial 77 However residents of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge also objected to the prison barge saying that they had not been consulted about the decision 80 The Bibby Venture was moved to Pier 40 on the Hudson River in summer 1989 81 The Bibby Venture and its sister barge Bibby Resolution were retired from use in 1992 to be replaced by the Vernon C Bain Correctional Center floating jail in the South Bronx 82 and the barges were sold two years later 83 By late 1988 the city was planning to renovate another million square feet at a cost of 44 5 million 75 During the renovation the city would add 40 industrial units with an average of 20 000 square feet 1 900 m2 of floor space in each unit as well as 4 700 square feet 440 m2 of retail space 74 The city started signing leases for the space in 1990 just after construction on the second phase started 84 Renovations also started on parts of Building A and work on a 400 000 square foot 37 000 m2 space in the building was completed in 1994 85 Upgrades to an additional 200 000 square feet 19 000 m2 of space were completed in 1995 86 A fourth phase of renovations was completed by 2003 adding another 350 000 square feet 33 000 m2 By that time 2 600 000 square feet 240 000 m2 of space had been renovated 87 The city began offering public tours of Brooklyn Army Terminal s interior in 2013 The tours offered two weekends a month were offered through Turnstile Tours 88 8 Two years later the city started a 100 million rehabilitation of 500 000 square feet 46 000 m2 in Building A This stage s high costs were attributed to asbestos abatement and other cleanup 13 The NYCEDC also started renovating the Administration Building into a food manufacturing complex at a cost of 15 million 9 89 The renovations also included the restoration of 12 000 square foot 1 100 m2 of outdoor space based on a design by WXY Architecture and Urban Design 15 90 By 2016 there were 3 700 people working in Brooklyn Army Terminal with a thousand more jobs planned over the following ten years 9 The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio set up a job center at Brooklyn Army Terminal to help local residents with limited English proficiency obtain jobs at the terminal 91 NYC Ferry started operating to Brooklyn Army Terminal in May 2017 92 90 The terminal s food manufacturing complex opened that June 15 The renovation of the 500 000 square foot space in Building A was completed in June 2018 just after the 100th anniversary of when construction started on the terminal The refurbished area could accommodate an additional 20 companies 93 94 91 By this time the renovation of the terminal was 92 complete The Brooklyn Army Terminal had 100 companies that collectively employed 3 800 workers but the city projected that an additional 1 000 jobs would be added once leases were granted for all of the newly renovated space Because of the decline of traditional manufacturing in Brooklyn most of the new tenants were companies that worked in the technology media food or manufacturing sectors while the city had stopped renewing leases for tenants that primarily worked in distribution and storage 95 The total cost of restoring the complex was projected to be 280 million by 2016 9 a cost that had risen to 300 million in 2018 95 In January 2021 during the COVID 19 pandemic in New York City a mega facility vaccination site for COVID 19 vaccinations was opened at Brooklyn Army Terminal operating 24 7 96 Transportation EditThe piers at Brooklyn Army Terminal are used by NYC Ferry s Rockaway and South Brooklyn routes 97 98 MTA Regional Bus Operations B11 route terminates outside Brooklyn Army Terminal while the B37 route stops along Third Avenue close to the terminal 99 The nearest New York City Subway station is at 59th Street and Fourth Avenue served by the N and R trains 100 99 A bike trail part of the Sunset Park Greenway connects the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Owl s Head Park to the south 101 Ferry service Edit nbsp NYC Ferry stop at Brooklyn Army TerminalA fast ferry service from Brooklyn Army Terminal to Manhattan was first proposed in 1994 as a way to revitalize Sunset Park The boat service was expected to start service in 1997 at a cost of 25 million and would include a new pier at 59th Street as well as a 500 space parking lot at Brooklyn Army Terminal 102 This ferry service was operating by late 1997 bringing increased economic activity to the Brooklyn Army Terminal area as a result 103 After subway service in Lower Manhattan was disrupted following the September 11 2001 attacks the city established a free ferry service from the Brooklyn Army Terminal s 58th Street Pier to Pier 11 Wall Street using funds provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency 104 New York Water Taxi took over the route in 2003 and instituted a fare 105 In 2008 New York Water Taxi established a route between Pier 11 and Breezy Point Queens with a stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal 106 This service was indefinitely suspended in 2010 due to lack of funding 107 In the aftermath of subway disruptions arising from Hurricane Sandy on October 29 2012 SeaStreak began running a route from Rockaway Park Queens to Pier 11 and the East 34th Street ferry terminal The ferry route charged a 2 fare for each passenger 108 A stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal was added to those trips in August 2013 following the closure of the Montague Street subway tunnel which suspended direct service on the R train between Brooklyn and Manhattan 109 The ferry service proved to be popular with locals about 250 passengers per day rode the ferry between Brooklyn Army Terminal and Manhattan in addition to approximately 730 daily passengers riding the ferry between Rockaway and Manhattan 110 The ferry route carried nearly 200 000 passengers between its inception and mid 2014 111 The route was renewed several times through mid 2014 112 113 114 but was discontinued on October 31 2014 because of a lack of funding 115 On May 1 2017 NYC Ferry s Rockaway route 97 started operating between Pier 11 Wall Street in Manhattan s Financial District and Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Park with a stop at Brooklyn Army Terminal 92 The terminal is also served by NYC Ferry s South Brooklyn route 98 which started running on June 1 2017 116 Notable tenants Edit nbsp Footbridge on the north side of the terminal as seen at sunsetBrooklyn Army Terminal is also home to a number of tenants specializing across a varied degree of industries Notable tenants include American Museum of Natural History 8 chashama artist studio program 117 Ford Bay Ridge Service Center occupies the former Federal Laundry Building on the eastern side of the terminal property 118 119 Jomashop com online watch and fashion retailer 120 121 Jacques Torres amp Mr Chocolate chocolatier 122 123 15 New York City Bioscience Initiative center 124 New York City Police Department Intelligence Division 125 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum 8 Uncommon Goods internet retailer 88 See also EditAustin Nichols and Company Warehouse also designed by Cass Gilbert in Williamsburg Brooklyn R C Williams Warehouse also designed by Cass Gilbert in Chelsea ManhattanReferences Edit a b National Register Information System U S Army Military Ocean Terminal 83001702 National Register of Historic Places National Park Service March 13 2009 Retrieved August 2 2019 Specifications Brooklyn Army Terminal Retrieved August 2 2019 a b c d e f g h i j k Uncle Sam Pay Roll 200 000 A Week at Bay Ridge War Base Brooklyn Daily Eagle August 25 1918 p 15 Retrieved August 20 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com nbsp a b c d e f g h i Gilbert Cass Stern Robert A M 2001 Cass Gilbert Life and Work Architect of the Public Domain W W Norton pp 166 167 ISBN 978 0 393 73065 4 Largest Building In World Located Here in Brooklyn Brooklyn Daily Eagle July 2 1924 p 31 Retrieved August 20 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com nbsp Bindelglass Evan November 18 2014 At 95 The Repurposed Brooklyn Army 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2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com nbsp DENIES BROOKLYN BASE IS TO BE ABANDONED Army Depot Commander Tells Federal Workers Government Has No Such Plan The New York Times August 20 1930 Retrieved August 23 2018 Pilat O R March 6 1930 Military Jail to be Erected at Army Base Brooklyn Daily Eagle pp 1 3 Retrieved August 24 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com Army Prison in Bay Ridge Now Assured April 2 1930 p 3 Retrieved August 24 2018 Kaysen Ronda September 25 2012 Brooklyn s Industrial Space Retools for a New Era New York Times a b c Navy Yard Fort Jay and Army Terminal Played Major Roles in Nation s History SHIPS FROM HERE USED IN 4 WARS Governors Island Shelled by the British Doughboys Landed in Brooklyn The New York Times November 20 1964 Retrieved August 28 2018 a b c New York City Economic Development Corporation 2013 Brooklyn Army Terminal History Army Base Expands Thousands Shifted Brooklyn Daily Eagle July 9 1941 p 1 Retrieved November 26 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com nbsp Brooklyn Army Base Safety Program Cuts Accidents by 85 Percent Brooklyn Daily Eagle October 26 1947 p 23 Retrieved August 27 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library newspapers com First Ship Brings 3 028 War Dead From the Pacific to San Francisco FIRST OF WAR DEAD REACH WEST COAST The New York Times October 11 1947 Retrieved August 28 2018 CITY TO HONOR WAR DEAD O Dwyer Orders Flags at Half Staff as 4 212 Bodies Arrive The New York Times November 26 1947 Retrieved August 28 2018 MEMORIAL FOR WAR DEAD Services for 4 300 Are Conducted on Pier in Brooklyn The New York Times July 10 1948 Retrieved August 28 2018 a b c Berliner David C October 5 1975 The Army Terminal Vacated The New York Times Retrieved August 28 2018 BROOKLYN MOVES TO SAVE TERMINAL Drafts New Arguments to Keep Big Army Base The New York Times May 16 1964 Retrieved August 28 2018 BROOKLYN NAVY YARD WILL CLOSE SWEEPING CUTBACKS ALSO INCLUDE FT JAY AND ARMY TERMINAL HERE 33 STATES LISTED 63 000 Will Lose Jobs at 80 Bases in U S Boston Spared 33 STATES ARE HIT BY THE CUTBACKS McNamara Announces That 95 Bases Will Be Shut 477 Million Saving Seen The New York Times November 20 1964 Retrieved August 28 2018 Knap Ted November 19 1964 U S to Close Navy Yard 1 Billion Loss Seen Here PDF New York World Telegram p 1 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Merlis George November 20 1964 Only 10 At Terminal Face Ax New York World Telegram pp B1 B8 via fultonhistory com nbsp Farrant Lawrence February 15 1965 Most of Brooklyn Army Terminal Will Move Nearby PDF New York World Telegram p R1 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Callahan John P December 10 1966 Taps Bids a Sad Farewell to an Army Terminal The New York Times Retrieved August 28 2018 nbsp City Makes Move for Brooklyn Army Terminal PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News December 23 1966 p 1 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Horne George March 17 1967 CITY TO TRANSFER FREE TRADE ZONE Move to Brooklyn From S I Will Provide More Space The New York Times Retrieved August 24 2018 Javits And Committee Discuss Army Terminal PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News February 16 1968 p 16 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Horne George February 14 1968 CITY FACING FIGHT ON TERMINAL PLAN Post Office Center Asked at Old Brooklyn Army Base The New York Times Retrieved August 24 2018 U S WILL LEASE ARMY BASE TO CITY TO CREATE JOBS Agnew and Lindsay Also Announce Federal Grant to Convert Navy Yard U S to Lease Army Terminal to City The New York Times June 10 1969 Retrieved August 24 2018 Fried Joseph P June 26 1968 100 Million General Post Office to Be Built Here 100 Million Main Post Office Will Be Built on Site in Midtown The New York Times Retrieved August 25 2018 a b McMahon Dennis C December 25 1970 Postal Workers Lament Closing Of Brooklyn Army Terminal Facility PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News p 11 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Madden Richard L February 7 1970 POSTAL COMPLEX RULED OUT HERE The New York Times Retrieved August 25 2018 a b Trbovich Marco April 24 1970 PLAN DETENTION CENTER FOR ARMY TERM PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News p 16 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Whitney Craig R April 19 1970 SECURITY A WORRY AT U S JAIL HERE The New York Times Retrieved August 21 2018 Lieberman Gerald F November 5 1972 Now Hear This The Navy Is Taking Over the Old Brooklyn Army Terminal The New York Times Retrieved August 21 2018 Bamberger Werner February 9 1974 Army Installation In Brooklyn to Go To Site in Bayonne The New York Times Retrieved August 21 2018 House Votes for a Takeover by City Of Old Army Terminal in Brooklyn The New York Times November 15 1979 Retrieved August 28 2018 Smothers Ronald September 20 1980 City Decides On a Developer For Brooklyn Army Terminal Four Proposals Submitted A Busy Place During World War II The New York Times Retrieved August 29 2018 Kappstatter Bob December 3 1980 Bush Terminal is 78 and blooming New York Daily News p 239 Retrieved November 29 2018 via newspapers com nbsp Smothers Ronald December 4 1980 City Bid to Bury Army Terminal Stalled on Price Offer for Brooklyn Facility Held Too Low by G S A Sought to Spur Economy The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 24 2023 Plans Are Revived to Redevelop The Old Brooklyn Army Terminal The New York Times December 11 1980 Retrieved August 29 2018 Richards Dan December 11 1980 8 5 M Finally Buys The Brooklyn Army Terminal For City PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News p 8 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp The City Army Terminal Aid Wins U S Approval The New York Times April 24 1981 Retrieved August 29 2018 Thrall Judy July 17 1981 Christmas In July As City Buys Terminal PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News p 2 Retrieved August 20 2018 via fultonhistory com nbsp Richards Dan October 2 1981 Helmsley Backs Out Of Terminal Deal PDF Home Reporter and Sunset News p 2 Retrieved August 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