A stepped granite dry dock, a rusted hull on the blocks, monumental works hung from the gantry over the void.
The federal government bought the site on Wallabout Bay in 1801 and built warships there for 165 years. The yard launched the USS Maine, the USS Arizona and the USS Missouri, where Japan surrendered in 1945. About 70,000 people worked there at the peak of the Second World War. The Navy closed it in 1966, and it is now an industrial park with more than 500 businesses.
Source · Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation ↗
Stepped granite altar walls of the dock, keel blocks and rails on the floor, lattice gantry cranes, the caisson gate to the river. Mood: industrial dusk. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.