Brooklyn Bridge Park
Waterfront park on reclaimed industrial piers with sweeping East River and Manhattan skyline views.
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This guide to Brooklyn Bridge Park traces the working waterfront that once stood here, when the New York Dock Company ran shipping piers stacked with coffee, cocoa and tobacco. It follows the decline after containerization emptied the docks in the 1980s, and the 1984 fight that broke out when the Port Authority moved to sell the land to developers. Along the way you'll pass the old Civil War-era Tobacco Warehouse, once a working cargo hold rather than a stage.
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