The New York waterfront sadly notes the passing of Brooklyn's 148-year-old Domino Sugar refinery, an East River landmark for generations and, until yesterday, employer of more than 200 workers. While about a dozen workers will remain for several months, most are now unemployed.
Beverage-related housing does seem quite popular in this area: Hoboken has the (formerly Lipton) Tea Building as well as the former Maxwell House coffee factory, once the world's largest coffee processing facility, and Jersey City also has a Sugar House condo complex.