SUNSET PARK — As hundreds of trucks and cars rumbled past on Wednesday, members of numerous community organizations and elected officials gathered at the noisy intersection of Third Avenue and 16th Street in Sunset Park to officially launch the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition. Neighborhood and environmental activists came with signs and speeches. But many […]
Over the past year, 202 Brooklynites have sipped coffee, slouched and sometimes snoozed in the red, upholstered chair that now sits perched on a wooden pedestal inside a street-level gallery at Building 8 of Industry City. Each of those people of Southern Brooklyn, some lifers and others relatively new arrivals, had spilled neighborhood stories and […]
SUNSET PARK — The New York City Economic Development Corporation on Monday announced the release of an up-to-$100 million request for proposals for an operator to develop a world-class Climate Innovation Hub at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. This cutting-edge hub is expected to grow New York City’s climate technology ecosystem and help […]