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Gibbons & Son Builders of Red Hook and rooftop plane landing
A 1885 three story brick block at 12 Luquer Street housed M Gibbons & Son Builders 318 Columbia St BK and later disappeared for TBTA use. The firm long employed 300 to 500 workers and stood at the center of Red Hook news as the site of the era’s first rooftop airplane landing strip.
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