"COLUMBIA STREET WATERFRONT DISTRICT - The City Club of New York trustee Tom Fox introduced on Tuesday a new to redevelop the 122-acre "all-maritime" proposal Brooklyn Marine Terminal situated on an industrial waterfront site stretching from Atlantic Avenue to Red Hook on the East River. Fox, co-founder of New York Water Taxi, the precursor to NYC Ferry Service, has numerous civic credits to his name, including spearheading the creation of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway and co-founding the original Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition."
"The all-maritime proposal, conversely, focuses on using the existing maritime infrastructure to support freight movement as a Blue Highway Hub, shifting freight from trucks to vessels that move food, packages and building materials by water instead of trucks. The plan maintains that one of the city's last publicly owned industrial ports, with its strategic location in the harbor, should be preserved as essential marine infrastructure and restored as a "fully functioning, all electric, climate-ready working port," Fox said."
The all-maritime Brooklyn Marine Terminal proposal would redevelop 122 acres of industrial waterfront from Atlantic Avenue to Red Hook into a modern, resilient Blue Highway Hub without housing. The plan requests roughly $1 billion in public investment and centers on shifting freight from trucks to vessels that carry food, packages, and building materials. The proposal aims to preserve one of the city’s last publicly owned industrial ports and restore it as a fully functioning, all-electric, climate-ready working port. The plan is presented as a lower-cost alternative to an EDC vision that would convert half the acreage to housing and add thousands of new residents to a flood-prone area lacking infrastructure.
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