COVID19 has shown us an ugly side of Nature, but lest we forget, Nature has many beauties and many gifts. Join us for our first online Breakfast Talk as we take a
City Tech’s Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center is pleased to announce its 2020 Research Fellowship Awards. Two teams were awarded fellowships: an academic project entitled, “Shaping the Brooklyn Waterfront: Vision, Ambition, and Authority in Planning an Express Highway,” and
In May 2014, the artist Kara Walker installed a monumental piece of public art in the derelict Domino Sugar factory that was soon to be gutted and redeveloped into a mega project that was facilitated by a series of zoning
Please check out the latest White Paper commissioned by BWRC.
Entitled, “From Brooklyn to ‘Brooklyn:’ The Cultural Transformation of Leisure, Pleasure, and Taste,” the paper offers a history of hospitality along the Brooklyn waterfront by looking back at the industry’s …
It will come as no surprise that BWRC will be canceling its annual conference, scheduled for April 24. What is sad and deeply ironic is that the focus for this year’s conference was “A Good Drink,
The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) is now accepting proposals from full-time CityTech faculty wishing to apply for a research fellowship for Summer 2020. The proposal can originate from any discipline, but the research project
We are thrilled so many of you were able to join us this past Friday for our virtual “Breakfast Talk.” Thank you for attending and, of course, special thanks to our wonderful panelists who shared their experiences of navigating their
At our Breakfast Talk, “Shirley Chisholm: The Person and the Park,” we explored the history and legacy of Shirley Chisholm in the context of the new waterfront Shirley Chisholm State Park in East New York. Given all of the activities
BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of the academic year, “Manufacturing Jobs: Industrial Revitalization and Workforce Development” on Friday, November 6th. BWRC was joined by a dynamic panel of leaders in the fields of industrial workforce development and …
