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Brooklyn Navy Yard Historic District

Historic site · Navy Yard, New York

A basin at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

The 225.15-acre former United States Navy shipyard, operating from 1801 to 1966 and now a working industrial park. Individual buildings are not generally open to unguided public entry.

History

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2014 as a U.S. Historic District. It contains Quarters A, the commandant's residence and a National Historic Landmark, and Dry Dock 1, completed in 1851 and a New York City designated landmark.

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141 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Photo "A basin at the Brooklyn Navy Yard": Professorcornbread, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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