10 Jay St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Property For Lease

Block 1, Lot 50, Brooklyn: In 1897, down on the East River, near the foot of the recently completed Brooklyn Bridge, the first brick of the modern borough was laid. That year, John and Charles Arbuckle, a pair of Pennsylvania-born coffee shippers looking to open a sugar refinery, began construction on a grand new structure at 10 Jay Street, where access to shipping vessels and ferry lines was as unobstructed as the views to lower Manhattan. From the beginning, the ten-story building was admired for its roundarched architecture, and for its cutting-edge design: 10 Jay was the first structure in the area with brick curtain walls hung on a sturdy steel frame. By the turn of the century it housed an operation that helped make Brooklyn into the fourth greatest manufacturing center in America—creative, chaotic, clamoring with life.