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5 days ago
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New York bets big on green economy with climate innovation hub in Brooklyn
This story was originally published on Smart Cities Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Smart Cities Dive newsletter. A consortium of Los Angeles and New York City economic development nonprofits is creating a 200,000-square-foot climate innovation hub on the waterfront in Brooklyn, New York. The BATWorks hub — named after the Brooklyn Army Terminal, an industrial campus where it's located — will provide green-economy startups with space to conduct research and development and will include workforce training and job placement programming for New Yorkers, according to a press release from New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is part of the consortium. BATWorks is 'cutting edge,' said Andrew Kimball, NYCEDC president and CEO, in a statement. The innovation hub 'will unlock new opportunities for startups and entrepreneurs, advance new innovative climate solutions, fuel job growth and strengthen Brooklyn's working waterfront,' he said. BATWorks will join several cleantech incubators that have opened throughout the country over the past decade. Nonprofit Greentown Labs has opened workspace to environmental and energy sector startups in Houston; and Somerville, Massachusetts. The University of Tennessee launched the Spark Innovation Center in Knoxville. And this year, the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub launched through a collaboration involving the city of Seattle and the University of Washington. NYCEDC announced its BATWorks partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator on May 22. LACI, which has taken a leading role in providing space and support for cleantech startups since it was founded by the city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power in 2011, launched the National Coalition of Clean Energy Incubators in 2020. Tech and science coworking space company Cambridge Innovation Center will also lead the BATWorks consortium. LACI will advise climate programming for the new hub and lead a pilot program that allows emergency climate technology companies to test products in a live built environment — part of its Climate Innovation Challenge, which provides funding and assistance to companies testing out their innovations, the NYCEDC press release stated. BATWorks is also part of New York Mayor Eric Adams' development plans for the city's waterfront and its Green Economy Action Plan, which lays out the city's goals for addressing climate change and creating 400,000 green economy jobs by 2040, the press release stated. NYCEDC, which invested $100 million into the new hub, says it expects BATWorks will create more than 600 jobs, service 150 startups over 10 years and generate $2.6 billion in economic impact for New York City. The new facility will provide companies with space to build products, quickly prototype new technology and carry out research and development, the press release stated. It will also provide green-economy job workforce training to people living in the city. Construction will begin on the hub this year, and it is expected to open in 2028, said Chelsea Sudaley, an NYCEDC spokesperson. Recommended Reading How Washington, D.C.'s first climate week came together Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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13-05-2025
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500 housing units will be built on Staten Island's North Shore
The Brief New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a mixed-income housing development will be built on Staten Island. One quarter of the 500 housing units will be set aside for affordable housing. The development will be built with mass timber. STATEN ISLAND - A mixed-income housing development is coming to Staten Island's North Shore. What we know New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) President Andrew Kimball announced their plan to build 500 new mixed-income housing units on the North Shore of Staten Island. "With today's announcement, we are checking another key box of our North Shore checklist." New York City Mayor Eric Adams Artimus and Phoenix Realty Group are the developers that will build the housing units on two vacant land parcels along the New Stapleton Waterfront. A quarter of the units will be reserved for affordable housing. The project is part of the mayor's "Staten Island North Shore Action Plan," which he first mentioned over two years ago. "New York is a five-borough city, and I am a five-borough mayor. That is why we have put Staten Island front and center from day one of this administration," Adams said at a press conference. The development will be the largest mass timber residential project in New York City, using the more sustainable construction material to "reduce the project's carbon footprint and speed up its timeline." "This project is a milestone for New York City — bringing mass timber construction to scale while delivering affordable housing and good jobs," said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce Adolfo Carrión Jr. Construction is expected to begin in 2027. The Source This article includes reporting from a statement from New York City Mayor Adam's office.
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09-04-2025
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New York City plans to preserve African burial ground in Harlem
NEW YORK (PIX11) — A bus depot built in 1947 on East 126th Street, believed to be one of the original burial grounds of enslaved and free Africans, might turn into a physical historic site. That's the idea behind the Harlem African Burial Ground initiative. More Local News Many people who walk, drive by, or even live in this community near East 126th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues may not even know about the history behind this now vacant building, but the Harlem African Burial Ground initiative is looking to change that. 'I think there is a lot of important history in Harlem that sometimes has tried to be repressed or forgotten, and we think through this project, we are really going to show the contributions of free and enslaved Africans at this site,' said Saradine Pierre, Senior Project Manager, NYCEDC. In 2015, archaeologists commissioned by the New York City Economic Development Corporation uncovered over 140 human remains fragments at this location. Remains that are believed to be of African descent. 'That sort of us helped us to prove the burial ground at that site,' added Pierre. On Monday evening, community members and leaders of this project gathered at the City College Spitzer School of Architecture to come up with ideas on how to make this sacred be memorialized to honor those who were buried here. 'We need to do all that we can to make sure that the burial ground is treated with the deserves that it deserves,' said Marta Gutman, Dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. 'To have elders in the community, designers and architects, and then our next generation deciding the future of this site as a living space, that's the goal,' added Jerome Haferd, assistant Professor of Architecture at City College's Spitzer School of Architecture. More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State For Harlem-born and raised Ayana Ricco, this will be a central place not only for Harlem's history but for New York City and the country. 'It is to inform us that we had significance from way back when, bringing forward a community that we forgot about,' said Ricco. No timeline just yet as to when construction will begin, but they are expecting to be within the next 5 years. Rodney Leon designed the African Burial Ground Memorial in Lower Manhattan, which was completed in 2007. 'Now we have a deeper connection with the Harlem African burial ground that the world can now understand information related to the formerly enslaved people buried here,' said Leon. 'This is a reminder to continue multigeneration conversations in each of our families,' Sylvia White, who also lives in Harlem. The leadership behind this project is asking Harlem community members to be involved with the future phases of this project, which is in its early stages. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
