New York Naval Shipyard

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New York Naval Shipyard in March 1944

The New York Naval Shipyard , also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard , New York Navy Yard, and United States Navy Yard, New York , was a military-organized shipyard in New York City / Port of New York . The site of the now disused shipyard is located in Brooklyn and borders the Vinegar Hill neighborhood , about 1.7 miles northeast of Battery Park , on Wallabout Bay on the East River . It is in the process of restructuring.

history

The site, on which some civilian ships had already been built, was bought by the United States government in 1801 and produced ships for the United States Navy from 1806 . From 1814, the shipyard built the world's first steam-powered warship, the USS Fulton , based on plans by Robert Fulton . During the Civil War in the 1860s, the shipyard employed up to 7,000 people. This number fell below a thousand in 1874 , but increased again with the construction of the USS Maine (ACR-1) and later the USS Connecticut (BB-18) . During the First World War , the number of employees was again over 20,000. During this time the shipyard built several battleships and submarines .

After the end of the war, the shipyard's orders also collapsed, in 1921 only 5,000 people worked there, and in 1923 another 3,500. Only with the beginning of the Second World War did the order situation increase again, in 1939 the NYNS employed almost 9,000 people, and in 1943 almost 69,000. During this time the lead ship of the Iowa class , USS Iowa (BB-61) and the last US battleship, the USS Missouri (BB-63) were completed, as well as several armored landing ships . The construction of aircraft carriers began in New York in 1943 ; the last carrier was launched in 1960 with the USS Constellation (CV-64) .

In the following years, the shipyard built some Landungsdockschiffe the Raleigh- and Austin class . In 1966 the shipyard was finally abandoned.

The partially disused site was then the setting for several film productions, including the closing sequence of the thriller Shaft - Greetings from Pistols from 1972.

The city of New York then managed the site and established an industrial area there, in which 4,500 people work today. The old piers are still used by a civil shipyard to build ships.

The shipyard museum - BLDG 92

Building 92 on Flushing Avenue, Bldg 92 for short, Brooklyn 11205, offers a permanent exhibition on the Brooklyn Navy Yard, exhibition space and a visitor center for activities on the entire site. There is a collection of photos and documents about the warships built here.

Web links

Commons : New York Naval Shipyard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 6.6 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 20.1"  W.