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
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 …
BWRC hosted its final Breakfast Talk of the academic year on May 10th. Sunset Park Solar, New York City’s first community solar project owned and operated by a cooperative, is set to be installed on the roof of the Brooklyn …
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 …
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: …
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