Warehouses Transform N.Y.C. Neighborhoods as E-Commerce Booms

March 16, 2022

Warehouses Transform N.Y.C. Neighborhoods as E-Commerce Booms

The region is home to the largest concentration of online shoppers in the country. The facilities, key to delivering packages on time, are reshaping neighborhoods.

An e-commerce boom turbocharged by the pandemic is turning the New York City region into a national warehouse capital.

In just two years, Amazon has acquired more than 50 warehouses across the city and its surrounding suburbs. UPS is building a logistics facility larger than Madison Square Garden on the New Jersey waterfront near Lower Manhattan.

In Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, 14 huge warehouses to help facilitate e-commerce operations are rising, including multistory centers previously found only in Asia.

 

Multilevel warehouses first appeared in dense cities like Tokyo decades ago but only arrived in the United States in recent years.

“You are going to see multistory buildings in New York City because there is no choice,” said Dov Hertz, whose company DH Property Holdings developed the three-story hub in Red Hook.

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