"Mayor Adams's Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan to transform the waterfront south of Brooklyn Bridge Park from the Columbia Street Waterfront to the Atlantic Basin in Red Hook into a mixed-use community with 6,000 new apartments and a modern marine freight hub won the required two-thirds approval from an oversight task force with local lawmakers and civic groups. The plan got through the"
"The plan got through the 28-member group without the support of eight panelists, including one of the co-chairs, who said Adams's grand vision needs to provide clear transportation upgrades address the barrage of traffic spilling over from the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. "The plan completely disregards the BQE and the surrounding context," Council Member Alexa Avilés (D-Red Hook) told Streetsblog. "This is a pie-in-the-sky situation and it's very frustrating.""
Mayor Adams's Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan won two-thirds approval from a 28-member oversight task force to convert the waterfront from the Columbia Street Waterfront to the Atlantic Basin into a mixed-use area with 6,000 apartments and a modern marine freight hub. Eight panelists, including a co-chair, opposed the plan citing inadequate transportation planning and BQE traffic impacts. The proposal will undergo an environmental review and a state General Project Plan to override industrial zoning, with EDC targeting GPP approval in late 2026 and phased construction through 2038. The blueprint includes bus-priority corridors, a restored bus line, bike and micromobility greenways, greener freight delivery, and parking caps, though many measures lack hard commitments.
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