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Rendering of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Courtesy of the Office of Rep. Dan Goldman

Groundbreaking at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal to transform port into offshore wind hub

June 10 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

SUNSET PARK — Equinor broke ground on Monday on construction at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, kicking off the revitalization of the venerable port facility into a hub for offshore wind on the East Coast and a critical contributor to New York’s renewable energy ambitions. The groundbreaking ceremony included remarks from New York City Mayor […]

Members of numerous Brooklyn and Queens community groups gathered in Sunset Park on Wednesday to launch the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle

BQE Environmental Justice Coalition launches, demands ‘corridor-wide’ BQE rethinking

April 10 | Mary Frost

SUNSET PARK — As hundreds of trucks and cars rumbled past on Wednesday, members of numerous community organizations and elected officials gathered at the noisy intersection of Third Avenue and 16th Street in Sunset Park to officially launch the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition. Neighborhood and environmental activists came with signs and speeches. But many […]

Rusty Zimmerman’s 202 portraits of Brooklynites are on display at Industry City’s Building 8, March 20, 2024.

‘An Elaborate Ruse to Trick Neighbors Into Saying Hello’ Comes to a Bittersweet End

March 26 | Haidee Chu, THE CITY

Over the past year, 202 Brooklynites have sipped coffee, slouched and sometimes snoozed in the red, upholstered chair that now sits perched on a wooden pedestal inside a street-level gallery at Building 8 of Industry City. Each of those people of Southern Brooklyn, some lifers and others relatively new arrivals, had spilled neighborhood stories and […]