“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.
“Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our visit to the place, please contact me. You can see our photos here:
Revere Sugar Refinery photos Mercurian’s Revere Sugar Refinery photos Our best shot of Revere can be found at BlueJake.”
You really have to see their photos of the Revere Sugar Refinery to appreciate this post.
I have location scouted this place, as have many other New York City area location scouts over the years since the sugar refinery ceased refining operations. I dont know exactly when it closed for refining business, but it was definitely before my time.
One of the interesting details I remember about the sugar refinery is the sunken ship. I wonder what has/will become of the sunken ship?
I have my OWN photos of the sugar refinery “somewhere” from when I was last there in, maybe like, 1999 (?)
In 1999 most of us still did our location scouting with film cameras and color prints (we are all pretty much all digital now) and when I put my location scouting folder together, like a good location scout, I gave all my photos to the photographer I was working for. The irony is, that same photographer decided to do some spring-cleaning a year or so back and asked me if I wanted their location library (which I was delighted to get, even tho it was three giant banker boxes full of of manila folders and prints!)
…so I have the pics- “somewhere”.
I never went back to the sugar refinery because, maybe a year after the first time I was there I called to make an appointment to location scout it for another job and the cranky old security guard (what was that guy’s name?) He was there just about every day for years.
…but I digress- I called the guy and he told me he wasnt doing any more location scout tours, the location scouts “wasted all his time and never booked shoots there” (like he had somewhere else to be?)
Anyway after that I wrote off the sugar refinery as a waste of research time and never called them again although I did hear, sometime later, maybe earlier in 2006(?), that the sugar refinery was tourable and shootable.
All of which is pretty much moot; according to Jake Dobkin, “The iconic dome of Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Refinery will probably disappear sometime in the next couple of weeks.”
…which is a shame to a location scout like myself- We location scouts survive by continually being able to pull visually interesting places such as the sugar refinery out of our hats for film directors and photographers; so, a landmark such as the Revere Sugar Refinery being demolished always makes my job just a little harder.
It’s been a tough past year or so… Admittedly, my vision of the state-of-affairs-for-old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City is skewed :
Another Red Hook icon, The New York Shipyard, went away in 2005. I blogged about it here.
There was a BIG, very suspicious fire in Greenpoint this past summer that took a significant portion of the Greenpoint Terminal.
Sometimes you just want a little grunge in your life!
St Francis Hospital in Jersey City, NJ didnt really fall into the category of “old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City”, in fact, it was pretty convincing for a film location as a modern hospital. Saint Francis Hospital was recently sold to real estate developers. Reportedly it will be demolished and condos built in it’s place.
LOL
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