The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual who can help advance the Center’s mission. In addition to its scholarly and pedagogical endeavors, the Center’s main …
Category: BWRC News
Visions for Newtown Creek
BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of the semester, “Visions for Newtown Creek,” on October 12th, 2018. Speakers representing the Newtown Creek Alliance and Riverkeeper outlined their comprehensive, community-driven Vision Plan for the remediation of Newtown Creek.
Lisa Bloodgood, Director …
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 …
November Breakfast Talk: Green Gentrification with Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis
On Friday, November 17th, BWRC hosted a Breakfast Talk featuring Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis who spoke about their book, Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. BWRC welcomed Gould
…BWRC Hosts Belgian Urban Planners
On Friday, September 22nd BWRC welcomed 25 Belgian urban planners to City Tech for a discussion about design initiatives along the Brooklyn waterfront. To kick-off our waterfront exploration, BWRC hosted two design scholars to share remarks on their respective …
BWRC Mourns the Passing of Sunny Balzano
BWRC joins the Red Hook and Brooklyn communities in mourning the passing of Sunny Balzano, patron of the arts and owner of the beloved Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook. The subject of a recent book, Sunny’s Bar had been …
BWRC: Summer and Fall
Welcome back to another academic year.
Save the dates for these Breakfast Talks both 8:30am to 10:00am at CityTech in Room N119:
- October 24th – Tarry Hum, author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park
- November 14th –
Double Your Impact
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 …
Art, Coffee, and other events
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 …
Feb. 24 Breakfast Talk: “Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and the Future of the Brooklyn Waterfront”
The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center is pleased to announce our second Breakfast Talk. Professor Klaus H. Jacob, a special research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, will discuss his projections on the impact of climate-driven sea-level rise …
