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March 16, 2009
Armory at Bedford and Union Sts?
What is the huge old building--it looks like a former armory--on Bedford and Union Sts in Crown Heights currently used for? Anyone know its history? I will be moving right around the corner from this and am very curious.
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There is a men's homelesss shelter there. I think it houses about 350 persons per day. Last year the City had wanted to move the mens't homeless shelter at Belleview there, too. I don't know the current status.
You should ask neighbors about robberies realated to proximity to the center. We have a building near there that was broken into fairly frequently in the recent past. There haven't been any robberies there recently but there were a lot of break ins in the past thta the building's occupants attributed to proximity to the shelter.
Posted by: Bessie at March 16, 2009 10:08 AM
You're thinking of the Armory further down Bedford. The one at Union is currently being used to shoot a VERY large movie, I think for Disney.
Posted by: bunkerlabs at March 16, 2009 1:53 PM
I know about the Bedford-Atlantic Armory homeless shelter controversy, but I had not heard that the armory on Union and Bedford also was a shelter. I heard the rumor that it was used to shoot movies, Bunkerlabs suggests.
Posted by: Green Glass at March 16, 2009 2:49 PM
I think there is also a shelter in the Union/Bedford Armory, but it is not as big or badly run as Bedford Atlantic.
This is a huge, amazing building. If you are interested, there are quite a few old photographs and postcards of the Armory in the Brooklyn Library's photo archives. Here's one of them:
Posted by: Montrose Morris at March 17, 2009 4:16 PM
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