Brooklyn Navy Yard Plans To Demolish Flushing Avenue Building

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — A small building on Flushing Avenue inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard will be taken down later this year to improve access to a larger manufacturing facility on the site, officials said.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) filed a request last week to find a contractor to demolish the 6,000-square-foot Building 42/46, on Flushing Avenue near North Oxford Street, inside, a spokesman for BNYDC said.

The site was the temporary home for Refoundry, an organization that trains former inmates on how to build and sell repurposed furniture, but the group recently moved into their permanent space in the Navy Yard.

After the move, the BNYDC decided to demolish Building 42/46 to help improve access and logistics for tenants inside the larger adjacent manufacturing Building 280, the spokesman said.

The deadline to submit bids for the job is on March 8.

The BNYDC also recently announced a $2.8 billion plan to double the size of the site by building three new manufacturing buildings that would add 10,000 jobs in the yard.

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