An Inside Look at the Navy Yard
[nggallery id=”24954″ template=galleryview] The photographer/blogger known as Bluejake took advantage of this weekend’s Open House New York, and offers these in-depth views of the Navy Yard. More can be seen on his Web site.
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The photographer/blogger known as Bluejake took advantage of this weekend’s Open House New York, and offers these in-depth views of the Navy Yard. More can be seen on his Web site.
All of the buildings in this collection, plus the open spaces, look badly maintained and messY. I think the Navy Yard is run by a bunch of young guys who are all like fourteen years old when it comes to maintenance and cleaning up. They need their mothers to be CEO’s and say “CLEAN UP YOUR INDUSTRIAL PARK OR NO DINNER!”.
Many of the photos in this collection are of building 128 – just inside the Cumberland Ave Gate. That building is vacant and in the process of being selectively demolished adn replaced with a new complex. I belive the Navy Yard has been talking about building a food manufacturing complex there for a while. Also keep in mind that the Navy Yard does not own Admirals Row – the Fed do. As for the rest of the campus, the facility received almost no maintenance invest for about 30-40 (the last 10 years the Fed owned it and the first 20-30 the City owned it) so there is a TON of deferred maintenance that needs to be done to bring the space up to par. They have been investing tens of million of dollars a year in new lelectrical infrastructure, water, sewer, lighting, roads, and waterfront. You’d have to be blind to not notice how much better it looks now than it did 10 years ago. Every time I’m there I notice another road that has recently been repaved – and now they are even starting to introduce landscaping. It may not be as beautiful as the west vilage, but the west village is not an industrial park. The fact that there are some artists studios in there does not change the fact that the place is an industial park, not an artists colony.
Taking care of their buildings should be the Navy Yard Corporation’s chief responsibility, and yet the place looks slovenly and semi-abandoned. It’s a disgrace.
Amen, billyboomer. They do suck! And the security crap. Shame ’cause has lots of potential for artists but they don’t care about that.
I worked in the Navy Yard for over a year. That place sucks.. Management is so stupid they think we still have a lease there. I hate them, they made my life miserable for a year, renting the space next to us to a deck builder, you should have heard the noise everyday. Crap it was awful.
what’s wrong with Havana? only trust fund brats think this way, and billburg is way overrated.
They don’t believe a lot in maintenance at the Navy yard do they? The maintenance level is comparable to say, Havana, Cuba. What a dump of a place.
There’s more than meets the eye. Not the best kept secret anymore, but the navy yard studio spaces are incredible. Just wished they’re made more affordable.