Ships, not homes, for Brooklyn port: Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan must thrown out to preserve a working waterfront

Ships, not homes, for Brooklyn port: Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan must thrown out to preserve a working waterfront

We love building more housing in New York City, but the city Economic Development Corp. is dead wrong to push a plan to put homes on the site of the only working container port on this side of the Hudson River. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal, 122 acres and seven piers that runs from Atlantic Ave. south to Red Hook opposite of Governors Island, should be used for maritime, not residential, purposes. The EDC decision must be reversed. We think that …