BQE 2053: Building a sustainable, visionary Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Is New York missing the opportunity of a lifetime to radically reimagine the crumbling, polluting and divisive Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE)? That was one cautionary take-away from the Institute for Public Architecture’s (IPA) full-day symposium, BQE 2053, at Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island on Saturday, May 20. Another take-away was that a […]

Sustainability Biotech Hub to open at Navy Yard

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – The mayor’s office and the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced that  a first-of-its-kind $20 million center for biotechnology research will open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at Building 303.  NYCEDC and the mayor’s office partnered with Newlab, the Partnership Fund for New York City and Empire State Development. The […]