The Domino Sugar Refinery

June 6th, 2007 -

The Domino Sugar Refinery - in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - is a massive industrial complex on the East River. Shut down several years ago, Domino still houses hundreds of pieces of heavy industrial equipment. Abandoned offices, lunchrooms, science labs, locker rooms and loading bays are in one building, while another houses floor after floor of vats, boilers and furnaces. Molasses covers every surface, burnt brown sugar cakes the floor, and a sickening sweet stench pervades the entire complex. Domino is one of the last remnants of Brooklyn's historic industrial waterfront and may soon be landmarked.

Three other photographers also have shots from this expedition into the complex : F-Trainer, Blue Jake and Mercurialn.

Update: The Domino Sugar Refinery was partially landmarked in September, 2007. However, almost every area seen in the following photographs is slated for demolition.

This Way Out

Molasses and Insulation

The Locker Room


Peeling

Decayed Bay

Ground Floor

Furnace

Peeling Stairwell


Open Windows

Hatches and Columns

String Machine

Tangled

Tripod

Massive Blue Bin


Inside the Skybridge

Glass and Wire


Science Lab/"For Food Only"

Domino Tower


Sugar Coated

The view from above - Kent Street

Company Colors/Inside the Tower

Triptych

Atlantic Yards Part Three: The Electric Car Shop

The Electric Car Shop

May 22, 2007 -

Underneath Atlantic Avenue is an abandoned "Electric Car Shop." Used to repair Long Island Railroad trains, it sits in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards development site, inside the Vanderbilt Railyards. Empty lunch rooms, abandoned offices, ransacked archives, all with the lights still on. The train yard and nearby tunnels are still in use by the Long Island Railroad, but this shop seems to have been empty for years.

Other photos from the railyard have been posted on this blog here and here. More photographs of this space were also taken by Nate Dorr. For more information on this controversial construction project, visit these resources:

• No Land Grab
• Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn
• The Atlantic Yards Report
• The Atlantic Yards official site

In the Trench

Eat Me

Graffiti:"Typical LIRR Supervisor"

Abandoned Lunch Room

New Bulletins

Shopping Cart in the Trench

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Rail

The Long Shop

Red Windows

View from a Window: Wards Bakery

Red Hook Container Terminal

Manhattan/Containers

May 12, 2007 -

The Red Hook container terminal is Brooklyn's last active shipping container port. It has been threatened with closure numerous times, to make way for waterfront development. The port is run by American Stevedoring and The Port Authority. In May 2007, Robert Guskind at The Gowanus Lounge wrote about "the city's plan to close the Red Hook container port and redevelop the waterfront for a variety of uses," quoting a New York Sun article which stated "the city's plan for the piers... is part of the administration's larger efforts to open up area waterfronts to the public, as the city creates a network of new esplanades, water taxis, and developments along the water's edge."

Two Cranes

Number 2

Under the Crane

Blue, White, Red

The Atlantic Yards, Part Two

April 25, 2007 -

This second set of photographs from the Atlantic Yards development site moves deeper into the Long Island Railway tunnels underneath Atlantic Avenue. This train yard, its tunnels, an abandoned train repair shop and large parts of the surrounding neighborhood may soon be covered by a massive new development. Additional photos from the Vanderbilt Railyards can be seen here, and in this set of photos from the abandoned Electric Car Shop.

Train Approaching

Tunnel Floor

Tracks

Exit

The Atlantic Yards

Two Windows

April 8th, 2007 -

These photographs are from inside the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn. This train yard, its tunnels, a train repair shop and large parts of the surrounding neighborhood may soon be covered by a massive new development. Though demolition has begun on surrounding buildings, the proposed project is still being protested by neighborhood groups such as Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn, while the official site of this development is here.

The Train Yard

Decayed Wall

At the Tunnel Entrance

View from the Yards