AERIAL VIEW OF PIER, LOOKING SOUTHEAST - Bush Terminal Company, Pier 5, Opposite end of Forty-first Street on Upper New York Bay, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
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AERIAL VIEW OF PIER, LOOKING SOUTHEAST - Bush Terminal Company, Pier 5, Opposite end of Forty-first Street on Upper New York Bay, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
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Significance: Pier 5 was typical of the substructures and piersheds built by Irving Bush c. 1902-09, sheet-piling-retained fill. It survives partly intact, and retains the best evidence of late attempts to modify Bush Terminal piers for better use by trucks.
Survey number: HAER NY-201-B
Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction