Bush Terminal Company, Between Second & Third Avenues from Thirty-ninth to Fiftieth Streets, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Significance: Bush Terminal was the first American example of completely integrated manufacturing and warehousing facilities, served by both rail and water transportation, under a unified management. It was the largest multi-tenant industrial property in the United States. Largely intact today, it remains the largest unified non-railroad terminal ever built in the Port of New York, and retains a rare survival of an isolated urban freight railroad served only by transfer bridge.

Survey number: HAER NY-201

Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1915 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980

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