10 Jay Street Dumbo
The oda designed conversion of 10 jay street is powering towards completion in dumbo brooklyn.
10 jay street dumbo. The building is located at 10 jay street a long the east river and adjacent to the newly planned brooklyn bridge park expansion. Its yard could hold up to 120 cars. Oda s 10 jay street is a retrofit and architectural restoration of a historic sugar refinery in brooklyn s dumbo neighborhood right on the east river. Until 1957 the jay street connecting railroad ran from underneath the brooklyn and manhattan bridges to the waterfront in dumbo and vinegar hill.
The area that we now know as dumbo was the hub of this activity producing soap and steel wool and shoe lasts springs and ale and handkerchiefs. 10 story office retail conversion at 10 jay street october 22 2015 earlier this year glacier global partners received approval from the lpc to convert the 10 story former warehouse at 10 jay street in dumbo into a 46 condominiums but now the develo. Around 1959 the tracks were abandoned. Adjacent to 10 jay is a 120 car parking garage offering valet service 24 hours per day 7 days per week.
The landmarks preservation commission approved a slightly tweaked design for the facade of 10 jay street in dumbo which is undergoing a residential conversion. Today one can still see the railroad tracks on dumbo streets. The property which was landmarked in 2007 in the dumbo historic district was first built in 1898 as the arbuckle brothers sugar refinery before later being converted into a winery in 1925. 10 jay street was built in 1920 and has 10 stories and 2 units.
By day thousands of workers streamed through streets paved with belgian granite blocks and 10 jay was the undisputed hub of the hub. By 1910 the refinery employed more than six hundred people.