The City Club Of New York, March 2, 2025

The City Club of New York hosted this week the panel  Brooklyn Marine Terminal: Planning for the Waterfront Future of NYC or Missing the Boat?, featuring as moderator David Burney , professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, and, as panelists, planning experts and local residents James DeFilippis , professor at the EJB School of Planning and Public Policy, Carly Baker-Rice , executive director of the Red Hook Business Alliance, and Deb Gans, professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.

The panel discussed the city’s plans for the redevelopment of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, a 122-acre public waterfront parcel in Red Hook, calling attention, on the one hand, to the project’s significance to the region’s maritime industry and freight network and, on the other, to the City’s insistence on limiting infrastructure improvements to what can be financed through on-site real estate development.

Panelists also lamented the City’s failure thus far to meaningfully engage the public in the formulation of a development plan and proposed ways to improve upon the current planning process.

Watch this lively discussion here, learn more about this consequential project, and find out how you can make your voices heard.

Check out coverage of this event  here.

And join us for the upcoming second panel on this project, Can We Pull Off a Climate Resilient Brooklyn Marine Terminal? , which will examine the risks of coastline development in this area and discuss ways to tackle the challenges posed by climate change.
– Wednesday, March 13 at 6:30pm via Zoom  REGISTER HERE.