The Tanks: Waterfront’s Layered Industrial History - urbanNext, September 04, 2019. - 000500

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Hidden in plain sight in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – one of the world’s most creative neighborhoods – are breath-taking relics of the waterfront’s layered industrial history. Ten 50 ft. tall decommissioned oil tanks have the potential to be re-imagined as part of a truly 21st-century park, worthy of Brooklyn.





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