Industrial Eye Candy: Dumbo’s Empire Stores
Eye On Real Estate
History lives within these walls.
At 55 Water St. in DUMBO, better known as Empire Stores, you sense the ghosts of long-departed workers even if you don’t see them, while living and present construction crews toil to turn the post-Civil War era property into a tech hub.
Join us on our hard-hat tour through this extraordinary landmark, which has been locked up and off limits for decades.
In the photo below, the Main Street side of Empire Stores has a lot going on visually.