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Fire lookout · Suffolk County, New York

Moosehead Mountain Lookout (now at Industry City)

Also known as Industry City

Moosehead Mountain lookout (St. Lawrence County, 1910), taken down in 1978 and re-erected in 2016 in a Brooklyn courtyard at Industry City; not climbable since at least 2021.

Original site: Moosehead Mountain

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Open to the public. Stands in a courtyard on the Industry City campus, which the contractor describes as having three public courtyards; no later access rule found

Can you climb it?
No
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a towerAermotor LS-25 steel tower, 40 feet, with external ladder access (erected 1916 at Moosehead Mountain)The design: Aermotor
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1910
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Suffolk County, New York
Coordinates
40.65756, −74.00752
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
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History

Then and now

  1. 1909 EventState fire superintendents decided to add a lookout at Moosehead Mountain to the existing observation stations (October 7, 1909)Source: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1910 BuiltA lookout was established atop a 20-foot tower at Moosehead Mountain, cost $442.26Source: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1911 StaffedW.D. Pond of Childwood appointed forest observer for Moosehead Mountain for the fire seasonSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1916 BuiltA 40-foot Aermotor LS-25 steel tower with external ladder access was erected; the source does not say whether it replaced the 1910 towerSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1916 and 1950
  6. 1950 StaffedApril 1950 newspaper said Mrs. Pearl Eakins of Conifer would again be observer, the only woman observer in Northern New YorkSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  7. No record between 1950 and 1978
  8. 1978 RemovedDismantled by a private party and stored for later re-assembly at Moosehead MountainSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  9. No record between 1978 and 2016
  10. 2016 RebuiltThe former Moosehead Mountain tower was re-erected in Brooklyn in October 2016 by Dave Vana of Davana LLC.Source: firelookout.org
  11. 2016 MovedRe-erected in Brooklyn in a courtyard at Industry City in October 2016Sources: firelookout.org, nysffla.org
  12. 2016 RestoredRefurbished by Dave Vana of Davana LLC before re-erectionSource: nysffla.org
  13. Date unknown MovedMoved from Moosehead to Industry City.Source: FFLA
  14. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

In October 1909 state fire superintendents decided to add a lookout on Moosehead Mountain, on the Raquette River northwest of Piercefield in St. Lawrence County, to the observation posts already running: six in the Adirondacks and three in the Catskills.1 A 20-foot tower was set up there by June 1910.1 By 1916 a 40-foot Aermotor LS-25 steel tower with external ladder access had been erected. The source does not say whether it replaced the first tower.1

W.D. Pond of Childwood was appointed a forest observer for Moosehead Mountain in July 1911, for the fire season, at $60 a month.1 In April 1950 a newspaper reported that Mrs. Pearl Eakins of Conifer would again be the observer, and called her the only woman observer in Northern New York.1 In 1978 a private party took the tower down and stored it for later re-assembly.1

In 2016 Dave Vana of Davana LLC refurbished the tower and re-erected it in a courtyard at Industry City, a row of industrial warehouses on the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn.2,3 The chapter's 2016 annual report says it went back up in October.4 The state newsletter that November marked its birthday, calling it 100 years old and still standing.2

The Todd Group, which installed the courtyard, says Industry City has three public courtyards and that an old fire tower was set up there as a vertical element.3 A visitor's blog from May 2021 found that the first flight of stairs had been removed, so the tower cannot be climbed.5 We found no later report. Please do not try to climb it, and check with Industry City before you visit.

  1. Moosehead Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/moosehead-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Moosehead Fire Tower, Forest Fire Lookout Association New York State Chapter newsletter, November 2016, https://www.nysffla.org/Newsletters/2016/2016-11.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Courtyard in the City, The Todd Group, https://www.thetoddgroupinc.com/news/courtyard-in-the-city/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. New York State Annual Report for 2016, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cr-ny-2016.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  5. Industry City Fire Tower, Turducken (blog), May 8, 2021, https://theturducken.blogspot.com/2021/05/industry-city-fire-tower.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. Forest Fire Lookout Association, New York State Chapter Gave us: dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association, New York State Chapter (nysffla.org) · No licence stated; facts only (dates, names, the kind of work done). Every note is our own wording and every event links to the chapter newsletter it comes from. Positions are copied from the NHLR and FFLA records (the chapter publishes none). · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. Forest Fire Lookout Association chapter reports Gave us: dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association, chapter and restoration-grant reports (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts only (dates, names, the kind of work done). Every note is our own wording and every event links to the FFLA report it comes from. Positions are copied from the NHLR, FFLOS and FFLA records. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  4. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, access, visiting details, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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