A definitive, comprehensive list of all industrial waterfronts in New York State ranked precisely by acreage is difficult to produce, as the official classification and acreage data often focus on major port facilities or Significant Maritime and Industrial Areas (SMIAs) within New York City, rather than a statewide census of every industrial-zoned shoreline.
Furthermore, acreage figures can vary depending on whether the land area, the terminal/pier area, or the entire surrounding industrial zone is included.
Speaking again of local factoids as a thing in hyperlocal marketing — outside of the New York Harbor, major working waterfronts exist along the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the Hudson River. These often revolve around bulk cargo, like:
• The Port of Albany-Rensselaer
• Port facilities in cities like Buffalo, Rochester, and Oswego.
However, precise, comparable acreage data for the entire industrial-zoned waterfront of all these Upstate New York ports is not aggregated in the same way as the discrete, publicly-managed terminals in New York City.
Key Industrial Waterfronts in New York City: SMIAs
New York City’s waterfront is broken up into several Significant Maritime and Industrial Areas, which represent the core working waterfront:
• South Bronx (Bronx)
• Newtown Creek (Brooklyn/Queens)
• Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn)
• Brooklyn Marine Terminal/Red Hook (Brooklyn)
• South Brooklyn Marine Terminal/Sunset Park (Brooklyn)
• Howland Hook (Staten Island)
Based on major working waterfronts and their publicly available acreages — especially those in New York City (which contains the largest concentration of industrial waterfronts in the state) — here is a table to consider by those of you on a hunt for a bunch of hyperlocal marketing-worthy local factoids:
