Admiral's Row (also called Officer's Row) is a row of Second Empire-style homes (1864-1901), some dating back to the Civil War, formerly used by Naval officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, now owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a plot of 8 acres. In 2001, the last of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was signed over to the City with one exception - Admiral's Row. While the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. has declared that the residences have been damaged beyond repair, the report by the USACE (http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/admiral/index.php) refutes this claim and meet all eligibility requirements for the National Register of Historic Places.
These sadly abandoned buildings are visible through the brush and vines along Flatbush Ave. starting at Navy St. The designation of the buildings is labelled Quarters B through L (Quarters A is not located on the row and is happily a well-preserved Federal style mansion off of Little St. (see blog). Quarters B was occupied by Commodore Matthew C. Perry while he was Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As can be seen from the photos taken of the barely visible front facades of the homes, through the iron fence on Flatbush Ave., the homes are dilapidated, open to the elements and animals, as well as vandals.
The Officer's Row Project is collecting photos, which can be seen at http://www.officersrow.org/. One project is interviewing former tenants, called the Admiral's Row Oral History (AROH). The Kingston Lounge (who advertise as guerilla preservationists and urban archeologists) have fabulous photos at
http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/2008/02/admirals-row.html and http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/2008/03/admirals-row-further-exploration.html.
http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/2008/02/admirals-row.html and http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/2008/03/admirals-row-further-exploration.html.
Still hungry for more photos ? go to the Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass at
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