A five-alarm fire overtook a Red Hook warehouse complex on Wednesday night, significantly damaging the 150-year-old structure, according to city Fire Department officials.

FDNY received a call about the fire at 481 Van Brunt St. at around 11:35pm on Wednesday, according to Kevin Woods, FDNY Chief of Fire Operations.

When firefighters arrived minutes later, they found the warehouse, a four-story commercial building built in 1870 that sits across the street from the Food Bazaar supermarket, engulfed in flames, Woods said.

The fire was so large, the FDNY decided to attack the flames from the exterior. Since the four-story warehouse, which houses many artists studios, furniture stores, a gallery and other businesses, abuts the water, Marine 9, a fire boat, was called in to help extinguish t

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