NEW YORK DOCK COMPANY owns and operates the
largest bonded and free warehouse system in the Western Hemi¬
sphere, as well as the largest pier system in the United States.
The property of the company, located on the Brooklyn water¬
front, opposite the lower part of the Island of Manhattan, is
approximately two and one half miles in extent. It is reached
by three ferries and is in close proximity to the approaches of
the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The entire area occupied
is 185.2 acres. 159 bonded and free warehouses, having a storage
capacity of 65.435,000 cubic feet. 34 piers of various sizes with
wharves, having a total deck space of 61.5 acres and a wharfage
distance of 9.36 miles. Steamships of more than twenty lines
berth regularly at the company's piers. 20 manufacturing build¬
ings, rental area 1,134,060 square feet.