City Tech offers proposals for new downtown spaces
As a result of a rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn in 2004, the neighborhood has experienced a surge of residential construction. The award-winning Brooklyn Bridge Park brings thousands of daily visitors, and there are substantial numbers of new residents.
The area between the courthouses and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, however, remains unresolved with underutilized properties, multiple dangerous intersections, poor lighting and overall difficult pedestrian navigation.
Beginning Monday and continuing through Wednesday, New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech) Department of Architectural Technology faculty and students are presenting their solutions to this problem with proposed designs for the sites that hold exceptional potential.