Building 77

77 Brooklyn Navy Yard | also 141 Flushing Avenue, 652 Kent Avenue | Brooklyn Navy Yard | built 1958

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1941
The Navy Yard builds a 16-story concrete storehouse in five months
Building 77 rose in 1941 to serve as offices and a storehouse for the wartime Navy Yard, a 16-story concrete block finished in only five months. Its first 11 floors had no windows at all. To carry its weight, pilings were driven 150 feet below ground, according to the Brooklyn Historical Society as quoted by The Bridge.
Source: thebridgebk.com
2017
November
A $185 million renovation turns the old storehouse into a light-industrial hub
In November 2017 the Navy Yard unveiled the remade Building 77 after a $185 million renovation. The building has 58,000-square-foot floors and 10-foot ceilings, and the project added 50,000 square feet of windows. It offers about 1 million square feet of light-manufacturing space, around 85 percent already rented, and was expected to employ roughly 3,000 people.
Source: thebridgebk.com
2017
Russ & Daughters and Lafayette 148 become anchor tenants of the reopened Building 77
The smoked-fish maker Russ & Daughters, then 103 years old, anchored the ground floor's 60,000 square feet of food-production space. Co-owner Niki Russ Federman said the Navy Yard offered a base where the company could grow and stay for decades. Upstairs, the fashion brand Lafayette 148 planned to move its headquarters from Soho and take 100,000 square feet.
Source: thebridgebk.com

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