User:Djflem/Brooklyn Piers

The Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal is an intermodal freight transport facility located on the Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The terminal is located on land owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), leased by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). The maritime facility in Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York handles bulk cargo. The (PANYNJ) bought the piers in the 1950s when there was still much break bulk cargo activity in the port. The PANYNJ transferred adjacent land at Piers 2-12 to the city in 2006-2007. which later become Brooklyn Bridge Park. It retain ownership of other piers, including those of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and adjacent Red Hook Container Terminal  was built in the 1980s  Nearly all labor on the terminal is supplied by Local 1814 of the International Longshoremans Association union.

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