De Blasio promises to create 1,500 jobs in Sunset Park
Wants neighborhood to be hub for food, fashion, film, TV industries
Mayor Bill de Blasio devoted a portion of his State of the City address on Monday to Sunset Park, promising to bring at least 1,500 jobs to the community by turning the neighborhood into a hub for the food, fashion, film and TV industries by the year 2020.
“This is going to be the new center of garment manufacturing, a new hub of our great fashion industry here in our city, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and a new film and TV studio combined — 1,500 permanent jobs will be created,” the mayor said, according to a transcript of the speech he delivered at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
The mayor said his goal is to develop an industry hub that will become the city’s “Made in N.Y. Campus.”