Content Preview
Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here
Community shocked as plug pulled on historic power plant
A monumental century-old power plant sitting on the Brooklyn waterfront and featuring a stout stone foundation and 4-story high arched windows with cream colored terra-cotta trim is being demolished brick by brick, upsetting local preservationists.
The Kent Avenue Powerhouse dates to 1905 and provides a crucial link to the city's transportation history, at one point providing the juice for...
newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.
-
Already
registered on
newsday.com?
log in -
Already a subscriber
to Newsday or
Optimum Online®?
get access -
Not a Newsday
or Optimum Online®
subscriber?
click here
