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Brooklyn Army Terminal: From War to WorkWhat: Brooklyn Army Terminal: a former U.S. Army supply and shipping base, now a working industrial campus with public waterfront spaces.
Where: 140 58th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The photographed atrium is in Building B.
Built: 1918–1919, during a military construction program begun in World War I.
Freight trains once ran beneath the loading balconies of this Sunset Park military depot. Its history connects wartime shipping, confiscated Prohibition liquor and Elvis Presley’s departure with a working campus for manufacturing, climate technology and public art.
