Sunset Park hosts 12th annual Brooklyn Waterfront Tastes benefit
The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI) took another step in its march to the sea by assembling an impressive roster of vendors for its 12th annual Brooklyn Waterfront Tastes benefit. Goodies from Steve’s Key Lime Pies, le Gamin, Black Swan and BK Roasting Company filled Sunset Park’s Factory Floor. One very popular stop for guests, who paid $125 and up for tickets, was a delectably frangible slow-roasted brisket, compliments of The Landing Café, which had hosted Hillary Clinton’s most recent campaign stop in Brooklyn.
The selection of Industry City for this year’s Waterfront Tastes added a kind of symmetry to the process of urban renewal by using a revamped factory floor to help restructure a waterfront once strictly the purview of tugboat captains and longshoremen into a place of parks, open spaces and clear pathways.
“I really appreciate this because I’m a cyclist myself,” Erin McDonald of Brooklyn Gin said as she and Cecily Smith mixed volumes of the “Bee’s Knees,” a lemon and honey-infused cocktail bolstered with lots of gin.