Scott Lynch - It was 1941, America was throwing everything it had into prepping for the war, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard was frantic with activity. So frantic, in fact, that it took the Navy only five months to construct Building 77, a 16-story, one-million-square-foot command and supply center running operations for the entire North Atlantic fleet. Constructed with solid cast concrete, the massive structure housed mountains of supplies in the bottom, windowless two-thirds. The top third, which did have windows, served as offices. Two five-ton gantry-fed rail lines ran along the east-west axis of the building, and trains would roll in, load up, and continue on to ships waiting in the harbor.

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