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The Domino Sugar Factory, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, once the largest sugar refinery in the world, has been one of the most recognizable buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront for more than a century. Ten years after the plant ceased operation, in 2004, its forty-foot-tall yellow sign is still legible, even from Manhattan

The Domino Sugar Factory, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, once the largest sugar refinery in the world, has been one of the most recognizable buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront for more than a century. Ten years after the plant ceased operation, in 2004, its forty-foot-tall yellow sign is still legible, even from Manhattan

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In 2012, the photographer David Allee was given access to the ninety-thousand-square-foot Domino complex. Built in 1882, on the site of an earlier refinery that had burned down, the factory processed sugar cane from all over the world, and at one time it produced half of the sugar consumed in the United States.

See all pictures at +The New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/05/inside-the-domino-sugar-factory.html

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Originally shared by +European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Congratulations Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and now Fellow of +The Royal Society!

Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, elected to the Royal Society < Press releases < News < About us < EMBL-EBI
Dr Ewan Birney, genomics researcher and Associate Director of EMBL-EBI, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.