Brooklyn/Queens Waterfront

We are a group of eleven graduate students in the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University GSAPP. We studied the East River waterfront beginning from Columbia Street Waterfront in Brooklyn to Astoria in Queens to learn more about its diverse industrial past and propose various interpretive strategies to raise public awareness.
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic DistrictBetween Franklin, Kent, Greenpoint, and West Streets Designated in 2007, the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District consists of eight buildings and the remaining portions of three partially demolished nineteenth century facades of the former pencil factory which opened in Greenpoint in 1872.  The pencil factory was founded in 1861 in Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn, after a fire in the original plant, where it remained until 1956.  The company is credited with bringing German lead pencil-making to the United States and employing hundreds of workers, most of which were women.  The mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century buildings are decorated with stone lintels displaying the company’s logo, the Faber star and diamond.  The final building constructed in the district was completed in 1924 and is the largest and most notable structure, a six story tall building embellished with giant pencils and stars made of glazed terra cotta.

Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District
Between Franklin, Kent, Greenpoint, and West Streets

Designated in 2007, the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District consists of eight buildings and the remaining portions of three partially demolished nineteenth century facades of the former pencil factory which opened in Greenpoint in 1872.  The pencil factory was founded in 1861 in Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn, after a fire in the original plant, where it remained until 1956.  The company is credited with bringing German lead pencil-making to the United States and employing hundreds of workers, most of which were women.  The mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century buildings are decorated with stone lintels displaying the company’s logo, the Faber star and diamond.  The final building constructed in the district was completed in 1924 and is the largest and most notable structure, a six story tall building embellished with giant pencils and stars made of glazed terra cotta.

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