Plans for development have threatened the historic industrial buildings along Brooklyn's waterfront in recent years. Now, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has declared the waterfront one of the nation's most endangered historic places.
"The trust's declaration was intended as a warning to city government to integrate historic sites into its development plans rather than erase them."
"Preservationists assert that the city should consider using the old manufacturing buildings for new purposes, as developers have done in SoHo and TriBeCa, and that some existing manufacturing should be allowed to continue."
"The waterfront was nominated for the endangered list by the society, a nonprofit preservation organization. The society says that the city's Department of Buildings issued 1,740 new building permits in Brooklyn in 2005. The same year the buildings department issued 1,924 permits for demolition, roughly double the number issued five years ago."
FULL STORY: Brooklyn Waterfront Called Endangered Site
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