A Historia!'sPlea orthePreservationftheTobaccoWarehouse uinTheTobaccoaspectionWarehousqo he northsideof WaterStreetbetween NewDockandDock steets n Brooklyn,wasbuiltin c.1860andwasorigitrally a five-storystrlctule reduced t somepoitrttr the20In enturyo two stodes. t onc€had an appearances mposingas hatoftheadjacentmpireStoreso the east.FormanyyearstheTobacconspectionWarehouseasoperated y theprivateirm of David Dows&Co. andwasknovn as he FultonStores. o the adjacent ochknownas heTobaccoDook,came ighte$ fiom New Jerseyearing ieightsoftobacco rortr Kentucky,Illinois, Irldian4Missouri,Virgini4 andTennesseehal hadbeensetrtby train o tlewestern hoieoftheHudsoaRiver. By 1872 heFultonStores ousedbout20%08,000hogsheads)fthe total tobacco omingnto New York City ard Brooklyn.By1890, leonly obaccohspectionwarehouses operationn thehen ndependentity ofBroolllnwere he Fulton StoresandRedHook's StanahanStores, t AtlanlioDock.Therearesevexalotable eatures fthe TobacconspectionWaxehousehathave commendedt for laadnark stafus. ustasmos!ofour survivingDutchfarmhouses"werebuilt in theEnglishcolonialperiodsomostofour"CivilWar-erawa.rehouses"wercbuilt after he CivilWar;heTobacconspectionWarehousesorcofthe few thatactuallystoodduringhe wa!. Of the ndd- o la1e19'-centurybrick warehouseshatoocecharacterLedrookltn(knovnas hehalledciql' for its waterftontbelt ofwarehouses),reciousew survive.Someack aodmarkrotectionandhavebeenconvertedo vaJiousew usessuchashe ate 1860swarehouseu RedHook1trat owhouseshe Fairraymarketwili aparhedsup above).And then hereare andmarkedwarchouses,uchas he aforementionedmpireStores,hat are elalively wholebufawaitadaptiveeuse.A uniquecharacteristicfthe TobacconspectionWarehousestllatit is aperfectuio.Manyyearsater il nas reducedn height, he wa.rehouse'soofcaved!" Ieavingonly portionsofthe stluctule'soriginalbrick walls,with litde ortro1hilgeBaioiry thal wasEotpadofthe originalbuilditrg. As sucb, tpossesseshepowerofauthedicityasagetruinertifactofBrooklyl'simportan! and astdisappeali1g,aterfroD1 istory.Anotrg landmarkftuctulesn NewYorktodayareonlya few otherexamplesfpreseryeduins. One s thePamchuteumpat Coneyslaad;anothers theSmallpoxHospitalat the southemndofRooseveltsland.Theserepowerfirlplacemakingpresences.uinsandtagnetrts hat arenot designatedardmarkshavebeenpreservedelsewheren New York:Notableexarnplesnclude heold LongIslandRailroadgantries,'rtichservedong-gotre atfloatoperatioos,nGantryPlazaStaleParknLong slardCity, and hepreservatiodf architecturalapents by theafist Mary Missn her argeArts-for-Tralsit prcjectn theUnion Square ubwaytatioo.Theres thusampleprecedentor thepreservationfruins in NewYork Sr.:chuins andiagrbeDtshjke auniquenoteof aestheliclld emotional ppealn the cityscape.TheTobacconspectionWarehouse-likeherailroadgantriesoeueens-yaandswithiotheboundadesfapark,n this case partofBrooklynBridgeParkourently uqderdevelopment.significaolcharacteristicfthe warehouse,stoqgly believe,s that tmayseryeasa uniqueandscaleelementwitlfn thepa*,both asaftagmed ofan