A massive industrial building — until recently home to a Bed Bath & Beyond — is slated to get an influx of government employees relocating from Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.
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Posted inBrooklyn
Sunset Park Vendors Seek Market’s Resurrection After Easter Sunday Shutdown
‘We just want a dignified place to sell,’ one vendor at the unpermitted Brooklyn pop-up market implored at a community meeting that drew more than 100 attendees.
Posted inRedistricting
Brooklyn Could Get a Majority Asian Council District — and Some Asian Groups Are Objecting
Asian American groups are divided over how best to build lasting power, as a city redistricting commission gears up to meet this weekend in Brooklyn.
Posted inEnvironment
Amazon, FedEx and UPS Deliver New NYC Warehouses, Bringing a Package of Environmental Challenges
Warehouses and “last-mile” facilities are popping up with little regulation. A new city plan calls for more use of waterways, bike deliveries and other measures to cut truck traffic. But increased pollution concerns are fueling criticism against a new wave of “environmental racism.”
Posted inBrooklyn
Engineer Pleads Guilty in Worker’s Brooklyn Construction Collapse Death — But Will Likely Avoid Prison
A civil engineer pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with the on-the-job death of a construction worker fatally buried under rubble after a retaining wall collapsed at a storm-swept Brooklyn construction site in 2018. But inspecting engineer Paul Bailey likely will not see any prison time in the death of Luis Sánchez Almonte, after Brooklyn District […]
Posted inPolitics
Chinese Voters Came Out in Force for the GOP in NYC, Shaking Up Politics
From Sunset Park in Brooklyn to Elmhurst and Flushing in Queens, frustrations over Democratic stances on schools and crime helped mobilize votes for Republican Curtis Sliwa for mayor and conservative Council candidates.
Posted inSmall Business
De Blasio’s ‘Open Streets’ Closed to Ailing Businesses Scraping to Raise Cash
Roger Asmar opened a Mexican seafood restaurant in Brooklyn in February last year — only to shut down a month later when COVID-19 made indoor dining risky business. The King of Fish — known as El Rey de Pescado in Spanish — reopened two months later at its Fifth Avenue location in Sunset Park but […]
Posted inSunset Park
Meet the Green Agitators Who Planted Seeds for Brooklyn’s Coming Wind Turbine Assembly Hub
A dream long nurtured by grassroots neighborhood activists approached reality last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an offshore wind turbine assembly hub in Brooklyn — part of a promised “green energy economy.” Sunset Park environmental justice advocates had pressed for more than two decades to revive a declining industrial waterfront while sowing the seeds […]
Posted inDevelopment
Stuck Waterfront Ferris Wheel Plan Takes Center Stage in Staten Island Political Races
The base parts for the New York Wheel, an unfinished $650 million waterfront Ferris wheel once touted as Staten Island’s answer to the London Eye, have sat on prime public land — untouched — since 2017. Staten Island’s current elected officials have stuck by the project, seen as the linchpin of the so-called North Shore […]
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Offshore Wind Energy Hopes Brighten Sunset Park Outlook After Industry City Unplugged
Powering hopes for new jobs for Sunset Park, some local opponents who helped unplug Industry City expansion plans are urging the state to select a nearby port as a hub for its big bet on wind turbines. Area grassroots organizations joined construction unions Wednesday to pitch the city-owned South Brooklyn Marine Terminal as a wind […]