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  • “Goodbye old friend…” . The nostalgia attached to a vacant warehouse (what, did you great great grandmother store her whale bone corsets there?) like other relics in the neighborhood by bushy-tailed transplants from the Midwest suburban sprawl is comical to say the least.
    in perpetuity, loose stool

    • I don't entirely disagree, but it was/is a beautiful old building. Regardless, I sense a lot of the nostalgia and heartache expressed from certain factions is completely feigned. Make no mistake, the powers-that-be in Dumbo (and the Heights) are on a fast track to get as much as they can while they can. While all the peons ooh and aah over their new grassy knoll, the talk upstairs is about “space,” “square footage,” “property values,” and the inevitable spike in property taxes. Now that Fulton Ferry Park is in the hands of the city and Dock St. is a go, keep an eye on the fate of the Empire Stores. My guess, it will be rubble in five years.

  • “Goodbye old friend…” . The nostalgia attached to a vacant warehouse (what, did you great great grandmother store her whale bone corsets there?) like other relics in the neighborhood by bushy-tailed transplants from the Midwest suburban sprawl is comical to say the least.
    in perpetuity, loose stool

    • I don't entirely disagree, but it was/is a beautiful old building. Regardless, I sense a lot of the nostalgia and heartache expressed from certain factions is completely feigned. Make no mistake, the powers-that-be in Dumbo (and the Heights) are on a fast track to get as much as they can while they can. While all the peons ooh and aah over their new grassy knoll, the talk upstairs is about “space,” “square footage,” “property values,” and the inevitable spike in property taxes. Now that Fulton Ferry Park is in the hands of the city and Dock St. is a go, keep an eye on the fate of the Empire Stores. My guess, it will be rubble in five years.

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  • People who love old run down factories, move to Detroit, you will love it.

  • People who love old run down factories, move to Detroit, you will love it.

  • People who love old run down factories, move to Detroit, you will love it.

  • People who love old run down factories, move to Detroit, you will love it.

  • By happenstance I learned of the demise of this old cold storage warehouse where I’d spent many a morning waiting in the early 1980’s waiting for the food company that I’d worked for’s frozen food order to be retrieved by the union warehouseman. (Some of them were Irishmen off the boat.) Nostalgic indeed, just as the demise of the old Newark Farmers Market in NJ that was built in the 1930’s where the same company leased space and had since become obsolete after the old Italian family businesses folded one by one since then. Time moves on. Footnote: This old building as well as the surrounding neighborhood streets made a cameo appearance in THE FRENCH CONNECTION movie. Peace.

  • By happenstance I learned of the demise of this old cold storage warehouse where I’d spent many a morning waiting in the early 1980’s waiting for the food company that I’d worked for’s frozen food order to be retrieved by the union warehouseman. (Some of them were Irishmen off the boat.) Nostalgic indeed, just as the demise of the old Newark Farmers Market in NJ that was built in the 1930’s where the same company leased space and had since become obsolete after the old Italian family businesses folded one by one since then. Time moves on. Footnote: This old building as well as the surrounding neighborhood streets made a cameo appearance in THE FRENCH CONNECTION movie. Peace.