Douglas C. Steiner

[4] In recent years, his firm is constructing an L-shaped 56-story condominium tower called The Hub, at 333 Schermerhorn Street, which has been predicted to be the tallest building in Brooklyn after completion.

[5][6] The father-son team created a film and TV production company called Steiner Studios.

In 1999, they won the right to develop the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a film and TV production complex, which opened in 2004.

[7] Numerous films and TV shows have been made at the production facility, including the 2006 movie Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.,[8] the 2005 film The Producers starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane and Uma Thurman,[8] as well as Spider-Man, Sex and the City, and Boardwalk Empire.

[8][9] The site has been expanded numerous times to include a parking lot with 1000 spots and five massive interconnected state-of-the-art soundstages.

Exterior of Steiner Studios in 2007.
Aerial view of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1965, with the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid . The Navy abandoned the site in 1966.