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- Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
- Brooklyn Heights Blog
- Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park
- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
- Brooklyn-Rotterdam Waterfront Exchange
- Columbia Waterfront Neighborhood Association
- Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp.
- Gowanus Canal Conservancy
- Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
- New York City College of Technology
- New York Harbor School
- Newtown Creek Alliance
- Partnership for Sustainable Ports
- PortSide New York
- Red Hook Star-Revue
- Sheepshead Bites
- Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation
- Sunset Park Brownfield Opportunity Area – RFP organized by UPROSE
- The Sixth Borough: Redefining Brooklyn's Waterfront
- The Word on Columbia Street
- UPROSE (United Puerto Rican Org. of Sunset Park)
- Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
- Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
- Waterfront Museum
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- BWRC Hosts Belgian Urban Planners
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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 – and is set to … Continue reading
Art at the Water’s Edge: Building Community Along Brooklyn’s Waterfront
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] 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 Robin Michals, … Continue reading
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 and Lewis to … Continue reading
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 Brooklyn-based … Continue reading
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 and … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
December Breakfast Talk: A Museum Comes to the Brooklyn Waterfront
On November 18, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center held its final Breakfast Talk of 2016. The featured speaker was Julie Golia, Director of Public History at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS). Golia discussed BHS’s exciting new venture: a satellite location … Continue reading
First Breakfast Talk – Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Author Joseph Alexiou captivated the audience with a narrative history of the Gowanus Canal’s transformation from an idyllic tidal estuary into a major commercial waterway in the nineteenth century. Alexiou highlighted Gowanus’s significance to the Revolutionary War and how the … Continue reading
Controversial BQX was the topic of our final Breakfast Talk of the semester
Harris Schechtman, National Director of Transit for Sam Schwartz Engineering, was our guest for the final BWRC Breakfast Talk of the semester (Mr. Schechtman replaced Mr. Schwartz, the originally scheduled speaker). Mr. Schechtman, who has over 40 years of experience … Continue reading
