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New Additions for Printing ExpansionAwake!—1987 | December 22
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New Additions for Printing Expansion
SITUATED between approaches to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges is the main printery of the worldwide organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses. You can see this six-building complex in the photographs above and to the right. A 161-foot-long [49 m] bridge connects the two new additions, located at 175 Pearl Street and 160 Jay Street (Number 1), with the earlier four-city-block facility across the streets (Number 2).
This 14-foot-wide [4.3 m] by 16-foot-high [4.9 m] connecting bridge, 51 feet [16 m] above the streets, was completed in the summer of 1986. It provides access from the pressroom floors of the printery to the sixth floor of 175 Pearl Street.
The Pearl Street building, originally constructed in 1917 and added to in 1947, was purchased by Jehovah’s Witnesses on January 7, 1983. By July 1985 the last of the previous tenants had moved out. But even before all of them had left, a construction crew of Witnesses began renovating the building.
First, a new roof was put on, and a 30,000-gallon [114,000 L] water tank was installed. To handle the materials movement within the building, a new 12,000-pound-capacity [5,400 kg] freight elevator was added, and a passenger elevator was replaced. Most of the floors were resurfaced with a tough coat of epoxy. Old exterior walls that no longer met the city’s Building Code requirements were replaced with insulated brick walls. Aluminum window frames and thermopane insulated glass units were installed. And the entire building was given a fresh paint job inside and out.
Meanwhile, on December 11, 1986, the building at 160 Jay Street, adjoining 175 Pearl Street, was also purchased.
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New Additions for Printing ExpansionAwake!—1987 | December 22
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During the past few months, a number of factory operations have been moved into the 175 Pearl Street building. This has made space available in the printery for storing paper near the printing presses, where it is needed. Let’s look at some of the factory operations that have been moved to 175 Pearl Street.
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