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Greenpoint’s 1940s West Street water tower comes down for Mendy Schwimmer’s 99 apartments, on a lot where tests found arsenic

The 100,000-gallon steel tower is among the last traces of a lot that held a brass foundry as early as 1887 and a printing facility by 1942. It is not yet clear when it comes down, and a cleanup comes before any new building.