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 – …
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Art at the Water’s Edge: Building Community Along Brooklyn’s Waterfront
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The BWRC hosted a breakfast talk “Art at the Water’s Edge,” on Friday, March 2nd, which featured a panel discussion on participatory art eviactices along Brooklyn’s waterfront. Moderated by City Tech professor …
Wine-Making Along the Brooklyn Waterfront
The BWRC hosted its second breakfast talk of the semester, “Making Wine on the Brooklyn Waterfront: Blending Community, Philanthropy and Education,” on Friday December 1st.
The event was led by hospitality management professor Karen Goodlad, who also …
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 …
May Breakfast Talk: A Dying Waterfront Transformed with Joanne Witty
BWRC offered its final breakfast talk of the spring semester On May 19. The featured speaker was Joanne Witty, who discussed her recent book Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed, co-authored by the late Henrik Krogius. A lawyer …
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 …
February Breakfast Talk: “Shooting” the Brooklyn Waterfront – Two Photographers Talk About Their Work
BWRC presented our first Breakfast Talk of 2017 with photographers Robin Michals and Nathan Kensinger. Robin is an associate professor in the Communications Design department at CityTech while Nathan is a filmmaker and curator who writes for CurbedNY. Both started …
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 …
