A Brooklyn concrete magnate is making a final push to save a historic ocean liner from being sunk off the coast of Florida and instead bring it to the Red Hook waterfront.

John Quadrozzi Jr., a key figure in Brooklyn’s industrial landscape, is working to prevent the historic S.S. United States from being turned into an artificial reef off the coast of Florida, Gothamist reported.

As the owner of Gowanus Bay Terminal and a leader in the concrete industry, he aims to bring the rusty 990-foot vessel, which is larger than the Titanic, to Brooklyn’s waterfront, where it could instead be preserved and repurposed as a “floating ecosystem.”

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