New York Dock Co. Warehouses

Category: Shipping Trade Sites/Structures

Built: 1910

Description: Twin six-story one-block-long former warehouses were part of the New York Dock Company's huge freight handling complex that extended for two and one-half miles on the waterfront. The Port Authority took over property in 1955 and it was leased to Maersk in 1958. Today the structures deteriorate while developers litigate their future.

"The first warehouse and pier system in the western hemisphere was begun in 1850 b ythe New York Dock Company. The enterprise now includes 34 piers, 159 storage warehouses, with a total capacity of 65,435,000 cubic feet; 20 manufacturing buildings ...and a cold storage plant. Its activities are divided into three terminals, the Fulton, the Baltic, and the Atlantic Basin."(The Port of New York by Thomas Edward Rush, 1920)