It is directly under the bridge, making you feel like you can almost touch the slate-blue bricks of the bridge's Brooklyn tower. The ferries and barges on the East River bustle by. And when it gets dark, Manhattan turns on its lights, seemingly just for you.
In 1984, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ended its cargo operations at the Brooklyn piers and planned to sell the land for commercial development. By then, the place was abandoned and assumed to be visited only by ne'er-do-wells, a reputation earned in the 1970s and '80s.
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