A proposed megadevelopment at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal could dramatically transform Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront by introducing 5,000 market-rate apartments and 2,700 affordable ones, along with a $200 million investment into adjacent public housing. However, resident skepticism arises from memories of the Atlantic Yards project, which promised affordable housing but never delivered. As a decision looms, community voices echo previous concerns regarding accountability and the viability of commitments made by developers and officials, drawing a parallel between past failures and the current proposal.
Now the specter of those failed promises looms over the proposal to construct new housing on underused land a little more than 2 miles away.
Those warnings proved prescient. Many of the commitments baked into the deal never happened, and the project developer failed to deliver any of the affordable apartments above the railyard.
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