First to Second Avenues

Looping back to the North, the blocks to the east of the Bush Terminal and the Brooklyn Army Terminal are home to a considerable amount of light industry and commercial activity, housed in a variety of interesting-looking buildings.

5102 Second Avenue (between 51st/52nd Streets) is a sturdy-looking three-story warehouse that caught my eye for some reason. The NYC Department of Buildings website indicates its first certificate of occupancy as a new building was issued in 1924, which would explain its styling. However, the building does not have any exterior indication of who the current tenant(s) are or if there's anything of particular interest about its past.

Commodore Manufacturing distributes Christmas ornaments and has a number of buildings in the area, including a very solid-looking warehouse from built in 1917 at 140 43rd Street.

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Extra Space Storage #727: 201 64th Street (1902)
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Extra Space Storage
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Former Brooklyn City Railroad Carbarn: 5801 2nd Avenue
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Former Brooklyn City Railroad Carbarn: 5801 2nd Avenue
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Former Brooklyn City Railroad Carbarn: 5801 2nd Avenue
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56th Streeet at 2nd Ave
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56th Streeet at 2nd Ave
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Lutheran Medical Center
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Lutheran Medical Center
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Lutheran Medical Center Extended Care: 5407 2nd Ave
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Lutheran Medical Center Extended Care: 5407 2nd Ave
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AM Wood Inc., 5312 2nd Avenue
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AM Wood Inc., 5312 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - 52nd Street at 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse - viewed from the southwest
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Commodore Manufacturing, 140 43rd Street
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Rebuilt small loft warehouse (1915), 4223 1st Avenue at 43rd Street
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Tracks headed north on 1st Avenue at 43rd Street
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4215 1st Avenue at 42nd Street
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Sahadi Fine Foods, 4215 1st Avenue at 42nd Street
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4201 1st Avenue at 42nd Street
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Tracks headed south on 1st Avenue
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Alley on west side of 3902 2nd Avenue
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Warehouse 19 - 3902 2nd Avenue

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