Watch: This Underground Brooklyn Tunnel Is Filled With 25K Pounds Of Cheese

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Looks as if the tentacles of gentrification slithering their way into the crannies of Crown Heights aren't just settling for open-air conquests anymore.

A new video dispatch from Curbed NYC (see below) takes us 30 feet below the beautiful, old, red-brick Nassau Brewery warehouse at 925 Bergen St. between Franklin and Classon avenues, where husband-and-wife business partners Benton Brown and Susan Boyle are using the brewery's 19th-century tunnel system to store around 25,000 pounds of artisanal cheese.

"We're following a model from France where the urban center was a place where you would age a lot of cheese," Brown tells Curbed. "It would come to the city to be finished."

"Affinag, or the art of aging cheese, is what we do here," he says. "We grow the rind and the molds and the yeast, and outline a good profile for when the cheese is ready."

After it's done aging below Bergen Street, the couple's cheese is then sold under the brand name Crown Finish Caves at upscale eateries and markets across NYC — including Whole Foods, Momofuku, Eataly and, of course, the Park Slope Food Coop. More fancy details abound on the Crown Finish Caves website.

Lead image via Google Maps