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Tag Archives: Industry City
The great Brooklyn explosion of 1956
Twenty-six minutes after the fire began, a “harmless” explosive left 10 dead, injured 247, and caused $10,000,000 in property damage. Continue reading
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Tagged 35th Street, burlap bags, Bush Terminal, Cordeau Detonant Fuse, Erie Basin, explosions, five-alarm fires, ground foam rubber scrap, hazardous materials, Industry City, Luckenbach Steamship Co. Inc., major destruction, Marine 1 FDNY, New York Board of Fire Underwriters Bureau, Primacord, shattered glass, shock waves, Week 32 - Industry City
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A fire-escape sunset at Industry City Distillery
As you might recall, my friend Max is one of the partners of Industry City Distillery. They’re building a vodka-production factory from scratch, and have had quite a bit of success thus far. So when Industry City came out of … Continue reading
Week thirty-two: Industry City
This project’s thirty-second neighborhood is a familiar one: the former Bush Terminal along the Sunset Park waterfront. I catalogued my most recent trip to the area in one of my “Running Brooklyn” posts. The selection came courtesy of my friend … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Terminal, Industry City, Sunset Park, Week 32 - Industry City
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Running Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park, Industry City
Come on, Keith, I hear you say. Why won’t you just visit Prospect Heights? When I have to go far afield, to a place like Spring Creek or Bath Beach, it’s a big affair. I set aside time. I scout. I map a route, … Continue reading
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Tagged auto-body shops, Battle Hill, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Half, Bush Terminal, cemeteries, dependence on automobiles, Fourth Avenue, Gowanus Expressway, Green-wood Cemetery, Industry City, Industry City Distillery, Manhattan, McGovern-Weir Greenhouse, Red Hook, Red Hook Crit, Robert Moses, running, Sunset Park, The Power Broker, Third Avenue, trash, Vine
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Sunset Park: once married to industry, now seeking a life of its own
For more than a century, the fortunes of Sunset Park have been tied to industry along the waterfront. In this way, its relationship is similar to that of Wallabout with the Navy Yard: as the commercial Yard boomed to a peak … Continue reading
Week nine: Sunset Park
Sometimes my selections give me a good laugh. One was when I got Georgetown and Paerdegat back to back in weeks three and four. I had another last night when my friend Jess pulled my ninth nabe at a Cinco … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Chinatown, cinco de mayo, Greenwood Heights, Industry City, Sunset Park, Week 09 - Sunset Park
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