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A tech incubator comes to The Bronx

What is that building?

Every day as I drive home from work, I pass a rather non-descript old factory building by the side of the Bruckner Expressway.  Last fall, I noticed that it was getting spruced up.  New windows, fresh bright yellow paint on the fire escapes, that sort of thing.  I wondered what was going on, but it was only this afternoon that I discovered what was up.

 


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It turns out this is a landmarked building, built by the American Bank Note Company in 1909 as a printing plant.  After being unused for years, it is ...

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