Category: Conference

New BWRC White Paper: “From Brooklyn to ‘Brooklyn:’ The Cultural Transformation of Leisure, Pleasure, and Taste”
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 …
Cancelled Conference: “Hospitality Along the Brooklyn Waterfront”
Past Conferences
Living in Brooklyn: Annual Conference Recap
BWRC hosted its ninth annual conference, Living in Brooklyn: Housing along the Brooklyn Waterfront on April 12, 2019, at City Tech’s new academic complex. The conference this year focused on two of the greatest challenges facing housing along the waterfront: …
BWRC 2019 Conference Call for Papers
“Housing along the Brooklyn Waterfront” Call for Papers
BWRC seeks a candidate to research and write a white paper that will set the context for our Spring 2019 Conference, “Housing along the Brooklyn Waterfront: Then and Now” (working title). Although …
Brooklyn Waters: Annual Conference Recap
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
BWRC hosted Brooklyn Waters, its seventh conference at Borough Hall on April 20th, 2018. Titled Brooklyn Waters, the conference focused on the complex, interconnected issues of sea level …
Brooklyn Waters: Sea Level Rise, Sustainability, and Resilience along the Brooklyn Waterfront
The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) presents Brooklyn Waters, a full-day conference on sea level rise, sustainability, and resiliency along the Brooklyn waterfront. Brooklyn Waters will examine how preparation for storm surge and rising tides has already remade – …
BWRC Annual Conference Recap
BWRC held its first-ever full day conference at Borough Hall on March 31, with support from the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The conference explored the challenges of “Moving …
2017 BWRC Conference: Moving Goods and People to, from, and along the Brooklyn Waterfront with Keynote Speaker Congressman Jerrold Nadler
Friday March 31, 2017, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
RSVP required via Eventbrite
In the mid-twentieth century, before its decades’ long decline, the Brooklyn waterfront buzzed with the movement of ships …