Salvation Army Pulling Out of North Brooklyn for Good

Salvation Army has apparently decided its presence in north Brooklyn isn’t worth the rising real-estate value of its huge, almost warehouse-like outposts in gentrifying Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

After selling of its Williamsburg location earlier this year, the Salvation Army is now putting its Greenpoint location — a 3,000-square-foot building at 981 Manhattan Ave., between India and Huron streets — on the market, according to a report in Crain’s New York.

According to Crain’s, the thrift-shop giant moved into the three-story building in 1973. However, when a fire and flood ravaged its ground floor earlier this year, the benefits of selling off the store outweighed any negatives, a Salvation Army spokesman told the paper.

Read the full story at Crain’s.