Red Hook activists fight to save historic factory from UPS demolition
Red Hook community activists are protesting the scheduled demolition of the Lidgerwood Building, a 19th-century factory that lives on the neighborhood’s historic industrial waterfront.
Delivery giant UPS bought the red-painted factory at 202 Coffey St. last year, and local residents say that the company’s plan to knock it down would be a terrible blow to the neighborhood.
“We want to make them see there’s a way to combine serving e-commerce and the future and repurposing the past,” Carolina Salguero, who’s involved in efforts to save the eye-catching building, told the Brooklyn Eagle.
“The quest to save the Lidgerwood Building really is bigger than Brooklyn,” said Salguero, the founder and president of PortSide NewYork. The waterway-centric nonprofit operates a museum and floating cultural center on a decommissioned oil tanker called the Mary A. Whalen.