" New York City's Largest and Oldest Industrial Facility, The Historic Brooklyn Navy Yard employs 250-acres is the East River Between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges, and SI Presently one of New York City's major industrial sites.Voilà en quelques lines how the editor of the superb The Brooklyn Navy Yard signed John Bartelstone , shows the development of the port area which was long the largest shipyard in New York (story very complete, there )
One of the last remnants of Brooklyn's industrial supremacy, the Yard has experienced tremendous change: functioning from the age of wind to that of diesel. As a cradle of naval evolution, the Yard has had to reinvent itself constantly, and this is made evident by the presence of buildings and structures spanning from the 1830s to the 1950s.
The Navy Yard was shut down in 1966 and reopened again in 1971 when the City of New York bought it with the intention of redevelopment. Great ships are still repaired there, and the Yard, now an industrial park with a variety of manufacturers and light industries, functions as a refuge from a city that has mostly forgotten that a mixed economy is a key to its survival ."
photographer specializing in architecture, we propose such a treatment of the place, including its construction dock, we do not know if it is a site abandonment or alive. The result, at least, is astonishing power.
And for lovers these industrial zones have always a bit special was the shipyards (which category I'm gone, I confess), I can only encourage them to look " Tales from the Shipyard ", superb The work conducted by BFI National Archive yards on the lives of British twentieth century.
The image below is taken from a proposed documentary. It contains almost the spirit of Leviathan (More there )
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