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    Demolition=Wasteful; Reuse=Green

    October 30th, 2008, 7:53 am

    Joining founder of the Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg Ward Dennis were: moderator and president of the Society for Industrial Archaeology Mary Habstritt; MAS director of advocacy and policy Lisa Kersavage; president & chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Andrew Kimball; and preservation consultant to the Austin, Nichols, warehouse rehabilitation Robert Powers.

    To learn more about many of the buildings discussed in this program visit www.saveindustrialbrooklyn.org, and for more information about the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2007 designation of Brooklyn’s Industrial Heritage among America’s most endangered places, visit www.preservationnation.org. To read an MAS report Making It in New York on retaining industrial and manufacturing jobs in the city, click here.

    To read a summary of the October 22 program by Kareem Fahim in the NY Times, click here.

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