The long and convoluted tale of the demise of a container port and the planned rebirth of a piece of Brooklyn waterfront.
"Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff wanted to replace Brooklyn's Red Hook port with cruise ships. And real-estate developers were gnawing at the edges, trying to convert onetime warehouses into market-rate condos with splendid views."
"But fierce reactions from neighbors and politicians who want to hold tightly to the "working waterfront" of Red Hook's storied past spurred the city's Economic Development Corporation to temper this condos-and-cruise-ship formula."
"So the E.D.C. has proposed a little bit of everything in the 150-acre waterfront that's now going through a rezoning. The map that E.D.C. put forth in September of piers 7 through 12 shows a beer garden, restaurants, warehouses, a hotel with a conference center, offices, light industrial buildings, a marina, a boatyard, a hotel, art galleries and artist studios, retail shops, offices and something called a 'Dynamic Maritime Marketplace.'"
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