Richard Bearak Breakfast Talk the Presentation

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jeremiah Cox

Thanks to everyone who came to the last Breakfast Talk of the academic year with Richard Bearak. The presentation is here for download.

Also some photos from the talk:
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Breakfast Talks will resume in the Fall!

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May 10th, 2013 – Our Next Breakfast Talk: A Look at Land Use along the Brooklyn Waterfont

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jeremiah Cox

The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center will have our next breakfast talk on May 10th from 8:30am to 10:00am at CityTech (CUNY): 300 Jay Street, Room N119 Now Atrium 632

Brooklyn’s Waterfront Development:
A Discussion with Richard Bearak
Director, Land Use, Brooklyn Borough President’s Office

Ferries, parks, apartments, ports, industry, sanitation. All of this stuff vies for waterfront space. Where does it go? Who owns it? How does it happen?

Join us for a breakfast talk by the Brooklyn Borough Hall’s director of land use, Richard Bearak, who will offer a comprehensive look at the sections and sectors of the Brooklyn waterfront, speaking of what has changed during the Borough Presidency of Marty Markowitz and what changes will occur on the waterfront in the future.

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Brooklyn's Waterfront Development - May 10th Breakfast Talk

Brooklyn’s Waterfront Development – May 10th Breakfast Talk

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Photos of the Bike Conference

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Jeremiah Cox

Thanks to everyone who came and made our Bikes on the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference a success!

Please check out the photos by CityTech Student Alina Melnikova. Here are some previews:

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Bikes and the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference Schedule

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Adam Davidson

Here’s a sneak peak at our March 22 conference line-up!

8:30—9:00     Welcome & Introductions

  • Richard E. Hanley, director, Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
  • Camille Kamga, director, University Transportation Research Center
  • Sean Scanlan, New York City College of Technology

 9:00—9:30     Brooklyn and the Bicycle

  • David Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The History (White Paper)

9:30—10:00      How Does Brooklyn Fit into New York City’s Bicycling Plan?

  • Hayes Lord, director of the Bicycle Program, NYC Dept of Transportation
  • Steve Durrant, principal, Alta Bicycle Share / CitiBike

10:00—10:30     Engineering Bicycles and Bike Lanes

  • Charlie McCorkell, owner, Bicycle Habitat
  • Ted Wright, Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects, NYC Dept of Transportation

10:30—11:00     BREAK AND REFRESHMENTS

 11:00—11:30      Bicycles as Agents of Environmental and Social Change

  • Milton Puryear, co-founder of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
  • Ben Shepard, City Tech professor and community organizer
  • Mike Lydon, principal, The Street Plan Collaborative

11:30—12:00      Bringing Cyclists to Brooklyn: Tourism, Recreation, and Sport

  • Chris Wogas, president, Bike and Roll
  • David Trimble, director, Red Hook Criterium

12:00—12:30     Screening of “Racing toward Red Hook,” Jessica Scott, director

2:30—4:00      Optional Bike Tour - Limited bikes available courtesy of Bike and Roll OR bring your own bike 

  • Bike tour of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, led by Milton Puryear.
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Bikes on The Brooklyn Waterfront: Conference Registration is Open!

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Adam Davidson

It’s official! Join us for a half day symposium on the history and impact of the bicycle on Brooklyn.

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Bikes and the Brooklyn Waterfront. March 22, 2013

March 22, 2013
8:30am – 12:30pm
at New York City College of Technology
300 Jay St, Room Namm 119

FREE with Required Registration

About:
“Once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget.” Brooklyn, however did forget- for a while. After an explosion of interest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Brooklynites forgot about bikes until later in the twentieth century and now, in the twenty-first century, bikes are ubiquitous in Brooklyn, especially in its rapidly changing waterfront neighborhoods. There are bike lanes and bike paths; bikes are seen as an answer to transportation problems and as a solution for environmental troubles. In a half-day conference sponsored by the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) and the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) speakers will examine the issues raised by the history and ubiquity of bikes in Brooklyn.

The speakers will include:

The conference will include a screening of “Racing Towards Red Hook” with director Jessica Scott.

Continental breakfast will be provided!

An optional afternoon (2pm) bike tour along the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway will start from Fulton Ferry Landing
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Save the Date: Biking in Brooklyn Conference, March 22

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Adam Davidson

BikingBMWtownie-00-PINP-thumb-500x333-3386 is booming in Brooklyn and we want to know why. On March 22 we will be hosting a half-day conference on the history, culture, and future of biking in our namesake borough. We will talk with local authors, business people, planners and advocates about what is happening on our streets and why it matters to Brooklyn and New York City.

More details to follow – so keep checking back here!

Update (2/19): Location and key speakers announced (see below). Registration to open up soon.

Save the Date! BWRC is hosting a conference on biking - March 22, 8:30am-12:30pm

Save the Date! BWRC is hosting a conference on biking – March 22, 8:30am-12:30pm

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Double Your Impact

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Adam Davidson

Did you know that any donation given to the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center will go twice as far? Thanks to a generous grant, donations given to the BWRC will be matched, allowing their full value to fund our endowment, while sending another half to our operations. In short, a donation now helps us keep our day-to-day programs like our free Breakfast Talks, Hangout Sessions and Conferences up and running while securing our future as an entity for research and public engagement. Your help is important – the only way to unlock the matching grant is to receive your donations!

Now more than ever the BWRC could use your help. The catastrophe caused by Hurricane Sandy has revealed the vulnerabilities New York faces as it confronts it’s ever changing development. The BWRC operates at the confluence of environment, history, culture and infrastructure along New York’s waterfront – exactly the same issues that Sandy revealed. Rebuilding and recovery will be short shrift without the non-partisan, independent research that the BWRC produces.

Please Donate to the BWRC. Your donations are tax deductible, and eligible for your 2012 tax return if given by December 31, 2012.

Donate Now

Please note that at this time we are utilizing the City Tech Foundation to collect donations. When directed to their web page please select “Brooklyn Waterfront Research” from the Program Designation box to ensure your donation is directed to the BWRC.

 

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Coffee Shots

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Adam Davidson

The last Breakfast Talk was great! Check out the pictures below from our full room. Thanks to all who could make it and special thanks to Steven Jaffe for putting together such a good presentation.

A full house for our Coffee Talk!

Coffee from the Brooklyn Roasting Company was served

Even some big names in the New York Coffee scene made it

Steve Jaffe takes through the 19th Century Brooklyn Waterfront

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Coffee on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Adam Davidson

Coffee on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Our Breakfast Talk series will continue on December 7! Join us to learn about the fascinating history of coffee on the industrial Brooklyn Waterfront with independent Historian and Curator Steven H. Jaffe.

Coffee in New York is big business. From its processing to its consumption, the Brooklyn waterfront has always played a significant role. At this “Coffee Talk” we will learn about the unique history of Brooklyn and New York in the coffee trade, as well as coffee’s own rise, fall, and resurgence as a drink of choice.

See the flyer.

And don’t forget to RSVP!

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Art, Coffee, and other events

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Adam Davidson

Update: Due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the November 9th Breakfast talk has been postponed. A new date has not yet been assigned.

It’s been a while since we’ve updated this page, so it’s time to let you know what we’ve been up to.

First off a hearty thanks to Brendan O’Malley who worked as Project Coordinator and maintained this site through last semester. Brendan helped get the BWRC off the ground in its first year and has set the bar for a lot of the excellent programming we have planned.

In September BWRC has helped sponsor the exhibit “Brooklyn Underwater” at Kingsborough Community College. The exhibit is an artistic documentation of Brooklyn sites that will be effected by sea level rise. Many of these places are heavily developed. See for example this stunning photo by Robin Michals:

Coney Island by Robin Michals

 

Looking to the future, keep an eye out for more information on our upcoming Breakfast Talk, or should I say Coffee Talk. On November 9th we will be continuing our popular Breakfast Talk series with a discussion on Coffee and the Brooklyn Waterfront: Its History, Decline, Return. If you want more details or would like to reserve your space early keep an eye on our RSVP page.

 

 

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