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The United States Navy Yard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNS), was a shipyard located in Brooklyn, New York, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) east of the Battery on the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan.
Three hundred acres across Brooklyn's waterfront belong to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the massive industrial park created in what was once a thriving naval base that also included a hospital and once employed 70,000 people in its peak.