The Brooklyn Paper

This old shipyard is cruising into its next life.

Builders are hard at work finishing five projects that will transform Fort Greene’s once-industrial Navy Yard into a new commercial hub when all are completed by early next year. The developments will boost the job count at the nationally recognized historic site by more than 10,000, bringing the number of workers on the campus to its highest amount since the yard’s days as a ship-building facility, according to a honcho.

“We’re in our largest phase of expansion since the navy left, essentially since World War II,” said Clare Newman, the executive vice-president of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental agency that facilitates construction projects on the site. “We’re going from 7,000 people working on the yard daily today, to between 17,000 and 20,000 in the next two to three years, which is a pretty extraordinary surge in growth in such a short period.”

Here’s a look at the projects, which are in various stages of completion, going up on the 300-acre, East-River facing campus: