A $3.5 billion vision plan to transform the Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Red Hook has been approved by the team’s Task Force. The plan, which is backed by city, state, and federal leadership including Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul, will redevelop the 122-acre site into a modern, all-electric maritime port and a mixed-use waterfront district. The project includes the construction of 6,000 housing units, 40 percent of which will be permanently affordable, a 60-acre upgraded port, 28 acres of public open space, and more than 275,000 square feet each of commercial and industrial space.
The plan follows a yearlong community engagement process that reached more than 4,200 stakeholders and proposes a phased redevelopment strategy guided by a newly formed Brooklyn Marine Terminal Development Corporation. In addition to housing and port upgrades, the plan features a new hotel, cultural and educational facilities, a public school, a maritime workforce training center, and resiliency measures such as a floodwall and elevated site levels. Dedicated investments also include $200 million for NYCHA Red Hook Houses and $75 million for off-site affordable housing.
Photograph of Brooklyn Marine Terminal, via edc.nyc.
The Atlantic Basin will see the transformation of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal into a community-focused waterfront destination with new commercial and public space. Infrastructure plans prioritize sustainable transportation, with pedestrianized streets, bus priority lanes, increased ferry service, and a $50 million investment in electric shuttle service. NYCEDC will also launch an RFEI to explore maritime port optimization as part of the city’s broader Blue Highways freight initiative.
The Brooklyn Marine Terminal site is accessible via multiple public transit options. Nearby subway stations include the Smith–9th Streets station and Carroll Street station, each served by the F and G trains. Additional service is expected from expanded ferry routes and shuttle service under the plan.
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The plan has been approved by its own task force? So in other words, it’s completely meaningless. I hope that unlike with the casinos, the local NIMBYs won’t have the final say on any part of this, but this is still many years from actually happening.
Also the terminal is obviously not easily accessible by subway, otherwise we would have seen development here a long time ago. This post sounds like it was written by Chatgpt.
Significantly less ambitious than the AECOM “plan”.
Should have been AECOM
Does it mean that the elevator is gonna go?
to say that the Smith/9th St and Carroll St subway stations are “near” is grossly misstated
To say the least. From the southern entrance to Carroll St F/G station at 1st Place, to the northeastern corner of the Atlantic Basin is, according to Google Maps, exactly a mile away…a 23 minute walk. Not impossible for sure, but that is not close.
Smith/9th St is the same distance away as well.
As you walk from Smith/9th or Carroll St, the moment the walk starts to feel inconvenient, that’s when you find yourself in Red Hook.
I wonder what the timeline was? This was MSC Meraviglia cruise homeport for a couple of years.
It will be sorely missed. There is great potential in that area.
Born and raised on Beard Street, like my mother before me! Getting to the train stations is not a walk in the park. We used to walk through the projects, which was fine when I was a kid. Good luck on a bus ride. Hope it all works out! Red Hook rocks!
I can surely say that Ive been around the hook for a many of years. Seeing good but mainly the bad. I only wish that the people which live and know the real community will benefit.