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The Brooklyn Navy Yard contains more than the old, crumbling Admiral's Row homes that are often romanticized in photos (and likely to vanish in the near future). Recently one photographer documented Dry Dock 1, the 3rd oldest dry dock in the country, completed in 1851 and costing $2 million at the time. Last year architect Brendan Coburn noted that it was "Fashioned entirely from massive, hand-cut and hand-sanded blocks of granite excavated from a quarries in Maine, Connecticut, Staten Island and upstate New York, its size, form, and general aesthetic bring to mind a Roman ruin."