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The Future of Industrial Brooklyn

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Paula Crespo
Keywords: 
Brooklyn
land use
zoning
local manufacturing
job creation
community development corporations
small businesses
urban manufacturing

This report-out covers the key takeaways and salient points from two days of workshops and discussion about manufacturing in New York City, organized by five Brooklyn-based Community Development Corporations (CDCs) with technical assistance from Pratt Center. In April 2013, a diverse set of...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Growing a More Equitable Economy
Date: 
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Document: 
future_of_industrial_brooklyn_report-out.pdf

Envisioning Community Sustainability through the Arts

Keywords: 
citywide
land use
brownfields
sustainable community planning

This presentation describes Pratt Center’s practice of integrating environmental sustainability and the arts in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, and Arts East New York. Pratt Center worked with these community-based...

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Document: 
pratt_center_arts-culture-sustainability_presentation_oct_2012.pdf

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Keywords: 
Brooklyn
local manufacturing
green jobs
zoning
urban manufacturing
land use
small businesses
job creation

In this report, Pratt Center presents a thorough investigation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (BNY), a 300-acre city-owned industrial park and one of the fastest growing green manufacturing centers in the country.  The paper demonstrates that New York City’s strategy of retaining...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Growing a More Equitable Economy
Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Document: 
web_2013_bny_full_report.pdf

Transforming the Sheridan Corridor

Intro Paragraph: 
For decades, the Sheridan Expressway – a 1.25 mile remnant of the Robert Moses era – has severely impeded the quality of life in Hunts Point and the surrounding communities in the South Bronx.
Keywords: 
Bronx
land use
affordable housing
zoning
transportation equity
sustainable community planning
A Bronx-based coalition is successfully leading the fight to transform the Sheridan Expressway and to create affordable housing and green open space where it used to be
Body: 

In 1999, the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA) was formed to work for the removal of the Sheridan Expressway and the transformation of the South Bronx into a model of sustainable land use, environmental justice, and...

Project Partners: 
Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance
Project Status: 
Active
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Elena Conte
Sydney Céspedes
Location: 
Bronx
iframe: 

The Green Agenda For Jackson Heights

Keywords: 
Queens
land use
zoning
affordable housing
sustainable community planning

The Green Agenda is a plan crafted by the people of Jackson Heights to address their ecological, economic, and social concerns. From November to March 2010, Pratt Center helped facilitate a community visioning process, bringing together over 400 Jackson Heights residents to imagine a greener...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, November 1, 2010
Document: 
greenagendafor_jackson_heights.pdf

Community Board 9 Manhattan 197-a Plan

Keywords: 
Manhattan
zoning
preservation
job creation
affordable housing
land use
sustainable community planning

Community Board 9 Manhattan 197-a Plan, completed in 2007, is the compilation of work begun by the Community Board in 1998, and later revised and supported by the Office of Manhattan Borough President, a Columbia University Planning Studio, the New York City Council, the Harlem Community...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, September 24, 2007
Document: 
cb9m_final_24-sep-07.pdf

One City One Future: A Blueprint for Growth that Works for All New Yorkers

Keywords: 
job creation
affordable housing
citywide
land use
zoning
sustainable community planning

This blueprint for economic development is the product of four years of collaboration by civic leaders, neighborhood advocates, community development organizations, labor unions, local development corporations, environmentalists, and others to make economic development work for all New Yorkers...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Monday, April 6, 2009
Document: 
one_city_one_future_blueprint.pdf

Community Voices and the Future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area

Keywords: 
Manhattan
sustainable community planning
land use

This report documents the findings from the SPURA Matters community engagement process and is intended to be used as a tool for local stakeholders to use in advocacy efforts to redevelop the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) site, a city-owned lot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that...

Research Type: 
Report
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Document: 
spura_communityvoices_sept1709.pdf

Transforming the Southern Bronx River Watershed

Keywords: 
Bronx
land use
brownfields
zoning
sustainable community planning

The Southern Bronx River Watershed presentation shows how some local low-income communities are working with the government and sometimes against, to better their neighborhoods.

Research Type: 
Presentation
Issue Area: 
Building Resilient Communities
Date: 
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Document: 
transforming_the_southern_bronx_river_watershed.pdf

Greening the South Bronx

Intro Paragraph: 
Grassroots organizations in the South Bronx have made environmental justice a central part of their agenda for community revitalization. Pratt Center has been there with them from the beginning: providing mapping, architecture, and urban planning resources that have enabled the neighborhood organizations to build a greener, healthier environment in neighborhoods that have carried more than their fair share of the city's polluting facilities.
Keywords: 
Bronx
land use
brownfields
zoning
sustainable community planning
Pratt Center played an integral role in helping the South Bronx bring environmental justice to the forefront of their community revitalization agenda.
Body: 

Sewage treatment plants, waste transfer stations, truck highways, wholesale markets, power plants, gas and oil depots - the South Bronx hosts essential infrastructure that not only allows the New York City region to function, but also leaves many Bronx neighborhoods with New York City's...

Project Status: 
Archived
Status: 
Completed in 2010

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