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South Brooklyn Freight Terminal, 29th Street Pier, Opposite end of Twenty-ninth Street on upper New Y, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
LocationOpposite end of Twenty-ninth Street on upper New Y,
Brooklyn, NY
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER NY-203
Building/structure dates:
1916 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1959 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1980
Significance: The South Brooklyn Freight Terminal, built 1909-16 by the New York City Department of Docks and Ferries, was of a municipal attempt to reorganize shipping in the Port of New York, by providing separate freight facilities away from the congested West Side of Manhattan. Selection of South Brooklyn for this effort followed the successful development of the private Bush Terminal, with its warehouse facilities and rail links with other parts of the port. The five piers built by the department represented most of the city's construction efforts in this program, which remained essentially undeveloped. The program was important in influencing other large Brooklyn waterfront projects, and the municipal piers included innovative design features on which some other piers were modeled c1910-18. The department never fully developed the South Brooklyn Freight Terminal, and this name passed out of use as the five piers were leased to individual shipping companies. The Isbrantsen Company, a tenant at the 29th Street Pier in the 1950s, was the last firm using the pier to have a prominently-displayed corporate name on the piershed; the name became a vernacular designation for the pier. As the most intact of the original five piers, the 29th Street Pier is significant for best representing both the freight terminal plan and the advances in pier substructure engineering. It is also significant as one of a small and dwindling number of surviving general cargo piers with piersheds in the Port of New York predating World War I. Such structures reflect the last important period of regional waterfront development in the era of traditional break-bulk cargo handling.
Related Names
Staniford, Charles
Hoag, S. W.
Betts, R. R.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. AERIAL VIEW TO SOUTHEAST
2. VIEW TO EAST
3. OUTSHORE ELEVATION TO SOUTHEAST
4. INSHORE END TO NORTH
5. PIERSHED DOORS AND COLLAPSED DECK EXTENSION, TO EAST
6. DETAIL OF PIERSHED DOORS TO
7. DETAIL OF COLUMN SUPPORT AND FIREWALL, ROWS 104-105, TO SOUTHWEST
8. DETAIL OF SUBSTRUCTURE AT END OF TRACK SUPPORTS, ROW 110, TO NORTHEAST
9. PIERSHED INTERIOR TO NORTHWEST
10. Photocopy of drawing dated November 25, 1957, DETAILS & GENERAL DECK PLAN, REHABILITATION OF 29TH ST. PIER, GOWANUS BAY. city of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 2994, Drawing 2. (On file, city of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
11. Photocopy of drawing dated November 25, 1957, SECTIONS & METHODS OF REPAIR, REHABILITATION OF 29TH ST. PIER, GOWANUS BAY. City of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 2994, Drawing 1. (On file, City of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
12. Photocopy of drawing dated January 20, 1958, GENERAL PLAN, REHABILITATION OF PIERSHED AT FOOT OF 29TH ST. City of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 3049, Drawing 1. (On file, City of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
13. Photocopy of drawing dated January 20, 1958, CROSS SECTION, REHABILITATION OF PIERSHED AT FOOT OF 29TH ST. city of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 3049, Drawing 3. (On file, City of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
14. Photocopy of drawing dated January 20, 1958, FRONT FRAMING, REHABILITATION OF PIERSHED AT FOOT OF 29TH ST. City of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 3049, Drawing 5. (On file, City of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
15. Photocopy of drawing dated January 20, 1958, END ELEVATIONS, REHABILITATION OF PIERSHED AT FOOT OF 29TH ST. City of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 3049, Drawing 2. (On file, City of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
16. Photocopy of drawing dated January 20, 1958, SIDE ELEVATIONS AND DETAILS, REHABILITATION OF PIERSHED AT FOOT OF 29TH ST. city of New York Department of Marine and Aviation, Contract 3049, Drawing 2. (On file, city of New York Department of Ports and Trade).
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