Bedrock Mini Storage/B&O Freight Warehouse

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8-story Neo-Classical warehouse, office and gallery/museum building completed in 1913. Designed by Maurice Alvin Long as a warehouse and freight terminal for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The building is constructed of concrete, with rectangular loading docks at each ground level bay on the north side. A concrete band and cornice runs along the west, north and east facades above the 2nd floor. The upper floor have single columns of small, rectangular windows on all facades. Sections of smooth concrete finish alternate with rusticated sections. A concrete cornice above the 6th floor serves as a base of pilaster flanking the 7th-story windows, which have stylized concrete keystones. A large, projecting concrete cornice above the 7th floor incorporates capitals of the 7th-story pilasters. The 8th floor features scored concrete window surrounds and stylized concrete keystones engaged with a concrete cornice.

Four free-standing penthouses at the roof line of the north facade are spanned by pedimented parapets, each with a single recessed circular detail. There are similar parapets on the east, west and south elevations.

The B&O Railroad's new building was constructed on the northeast corner of the railyards that used to line the waterfront. At the time of its construction, it was touted as the largest reinforced concrete structure in Manhattan - designed to store the freight of 12 trains of 50 box cars each. The period following World War II, however, was a time of general decline for all of the country’s railroads, as highways began to surpass rail as the preferred method of freight transportation in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1963, the B&O was taken over by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

In the early 1970s, the B&O Freight Terminal was permanently closed. In 1981, the yards and the warehouse were sold to a company specializing in warehousing and storage. The United States Post Office built a new repair facility on the building's south side in 1987. In the same year, the City of New York condemned the remaining areas of the northern block, specifically the L-shaped portion surrounding the B&O Freight Terminal building, for the erection of a Department of Sanitation vehicle repair shop that obscured most of the south elevation of the building, visible for more than 85 years.

Today, the building continues to be used for rental storage space, by Bedrock Mini Storage, as well as housing several art galleries.