The Domino Sugar Refinery has been an iconic presence on the Brooklyn waterfront since the 1880s and is now a flashpoint of the evolution of Brooklyn's former industrial waterfront. Occupying an 11 acre plot north of the Williamsburg Bridge, the factory has been shuttered since 2004. Recently, a fierce debate has started about the future of the factory buildings-- developers would like to knock them down and replace them with high-rise luxury towers similar to the ones going in the plots north of the site, while neighborhood activists would like to see them preserved and redeveloped as affordable housing.