This month in real estate history: City lands Brooklyn Navy Yard

Total price tag for deal done in the 1970s? $22.5M

Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn Navy Yard

From the June issue: The City of New York made a down payment of $2.6 million and formally took ownership of the 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard 44 years ago this month.

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The commissioner of the city’s Real Estate division handed over the check to the federal government as a deposit on the total price of $22.5 million. [more]