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8 ComingsoonCurrent�projects�in�the�works�across�the�borough

18 ThecuttingedgeA�Brooklyn-born�whiz�kid�is�creating�the�Band-Aid�of�the�future�in�Sunset�Park��

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36 Dumbo2.0The�next�phase�for�the�borough’s�high-tech�nabe

42 MovingonA�cartoonist’s�vision�of�Brooklyn�Tomorrow

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U rban farms in the sky. Charging stations in condos for electric cars. A new panorama of fun-parks and hotels in Coney Island.

Tomorrow’s Brooklyn promises to be better, stron-ger, faster than ever, judging from the projections of

our local industries.Our 2016 “Brooklyn Tomorrow” publication spills the beans

on the commercial enterprises and institutions working to give our borough a progressive edge with unprecedented con-struction projects, innovative resources, and creative services. What happens in Brooklyn recalibrates global progress. It’s no coincidence then that our “crossroads of the world” is a labo-ratory propelling commerce to the next level — with plenty of game-changers along the way.

Here’s a sneak peak at the buzz:• A youth farm in Crown Heights teaching kids about farm-

ing and gardening, then incorporating the fruits and veggies of their labors into dishes at local restaurants — boosting their skills and self confidence, and our local economy.

• A 200-year-old shipyard in Fort Greene charting a new course as the commercial destination for a flotilla of cutting edge companies.

• Commuter options that complement our borough’s diverse personality, including a proposed Brooklyn–Queens tram line along the East River and a bike path on the Verazzano Bridge.

• A seaside amphitheater that will bring top-notch entertain-ment back to Coney Island while breathing new life into a land-mark building.

Early Dutch settlers recognized Brooklyn’s value as an in-dustrial springboard. They established local enterprises that grew into international commercial successes, and solidified the borough’s reputation as a vital outpost of trade and emigra-tion. In those days, sharp-minded entrepreneurs turned our lazy waterfronts into world-class manufacturing sites, while innovative mom-and-pop stores represented the population boom ushering in grand diversity and top talent.

Today’s commercial visionaries are equally psyched to catapulting Kings County into a new league of enterprise and industry, making “Brooklyn Tomorrow” an epoch-making or-gan of manufacturing, production, and creativity.

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Brooklyn has no short-age of things of which to be proud, from hip-

hop elite to a bridge that bears its name. Brooklynites have crowed about “No Sleep” to cheesecake, the maker move-ment and its claim to fame as the hub of innovation. The NYU Tandon School of Engineering should count as one of those points of pride as well, since it plays a major role in ensuring that the borough continues to produce the next generation of engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators.

Founded in 1854 as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly-technic Institute (and best known as Brooklyn Poly), the school has retained its core mission throughout its name changes: placing technology in service to society foremost as it educates engineers to solve pressing public problems.

Brooklyn was the birthplace of the American Dream – it was our alumnus James Truslow Adams who coined that phrase back in 1931 – and now, as NYU Tandon, it is the birthplace of countless innovations that are making the world safer, health-ier, more sustainable and better connected.

From Telephone Cords to 5G Wireless

Unless you’re an old movie buff, you might never have seen a telephone with a mouthpiece mounted on a tall candlestick-shaped base, a separate re-ceiver and a hand-cranked generator. In 1879 alumnus Robert G. Brown combined the receiver and mouthpiece of the phone, modernizing telephone calls forever.

Today, Tandon is still at the forefront of the field as the home of NYU WIRELESS, an academic center acknowl-edged as the world leader in fifth-generation (5G) telecom-

munications research. Its pio-neering exploration of under-utilized radio-wave spectrum could lead to a thousand-fold increase in capacity, vast im-provements in speed and an inexpensive way to bring Wi-Fi to millions.

From Radar Systems to Cyber Security

Since its founding, the school has been engaged in keeping the public safe, from

early radar systems that helped to win World War II to the mass-production manufacturing pro-cess for penicillin.

Now, with digital data es-sential to almost every facet of our lives, online safety is the new frontier, and NYU’s Center for Cyber Security (CCS) is re-searching cutting-edge ways to foil hackers, by bringing engi-neering, law, business and psy-chology together to ensure the privacy of Internet users and

protect the people from cyber attacks.

From the Unimaginable to the Possible

Today, Tandon’s engineers are engaged in multidisci-plinary collaborations that would have been inconceiv-able in 1854. They’re bridging the gap between technology and culture with programs in game and digital media design, increasing public engagement and encouraging transparent government through the use of technology, working with medical professionals to speed innovations from lab bench to patient bedside, and more. And they’re doing all that right here in your own backyard.

James Truslow Adams be-lieved that the American Dream was “a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable.” Technol-ogy is making that happen and at Tandon, we are making that dream a reality.

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D eveloper AmTrust Realty is in the midst of building a 33-story apartment complex at Jay and Nassau streets, right near the on-ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge.

The rust-colored building, designed by architecture firm Woods Bagot, will sport:

• 272 residential units• A residential gym• A residential lounge on the top floor• Ground-floor retail• Office space on the first floor• Parking for 112 cars and 139 bicyclesThe building was originally supposed to have 18 hotel rooms

as well, but that has since been nixed according to a Woods Bagot rep.

Workers broke ground in 2015, but the foundational work is still underway, and the Woods Bagot spokesperson could not give a completion date. — Madeline Anthony

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T hey want to put industrial Williamsburg back to work.

Developer Heritage Equity Partners is hop-ing to build an eight-story office and manu-

facturing complex at 25 Kent Ave., which it is pitch-ing to creative and tech firms.

The staircase-shaped building at West Avenue would be divided between 10 percent ground-floor retail, 17 percent industrial space for businesses such as microbreweries and metalworking studios, and just over 70 percent for offices.

Architecture firms Hollwich Kushner and Gensler envisage a pedestrian walkway running through the middle of the complex, bookended by two cobblestoned pedestrian plazas.

The City Planning Commission okayed the building in May, and next it will move to the Coun-cil. If the city does endorse the plan, construction should kick off later this year and wrap up by the end of 2017. — Madeline Anthony

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Since 2013, the number of people working at Industry City has more than doubled to 4,100. And approximately half of those who work here, live nearby.

At Industry City, we call that a good start. Manufacturers, tech companies, creative firms and other innovative companies are reusing empty factories and storage warehouses. And community organizations, City Tech, CUNY and others who help prepare workers for new jobs are training area residents, helping local entrepreneurs and making sure opportunities stay close to home.

If you’re looking for work, want help starting a business or just want to know more about what is happening at Industry City, go to www.industrycity.com.

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P acific Park is blossoming.Workers are nearing completion on 461 Dean — the

first residential building of the massive, $4.9-billion mega-development formerly known as Atlantic Yards.

Crews built the 32-story tower in parts at the Navy Yard using modular construction materials before assembling them on-site near Flatbush Avenue.

The tower will house 363 units — half of which will be below-market-rate — plus a yoga and dance studio and ground-floor retail.

The building will begin leasing in the summer of 2016, and residents should be able to move in by fall.

Other forthcoming properties in the sprawling 15-build-ing development include the 17-story, 278-unit condomin-ium building at 550 Vanderbilt Ave. and a 300-unit apart-ment building at 664 Pacific St. that will also house a new public middle school.

Pacific Park will also include a literal park, spanning two city blocks. — Lauren Gill

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I talian developer Est4te Four is planning a massive office and shopping hub on the Red Hook waterfront dubbed the Red Hook Innovation Studios.

The company has already sunk $61 million into buying up six properties between Coffey and Sullivan streets, and even-tually plans to spend $400 million on the gargantuan project — which will be the site of more than 20 football fields — where it hopes to lure creative, fashion, and tech businesses.

Raft Architect’s latest designs for the site includes a hotel, a marine education school, stores, an event space, and parks and plazas, but the project is still just a proposal while the developer seeks financial backers.

Est4te Four is already in the process of turning a massive old New York Dock Company warehouse on nearby Imlay Street, be-tween Verona and Commerce streets, into a 144-unit condo build-ing, which is expected to be ready in spring 2017. — Lauren Gill

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G rab your library card and check this out!The city is selling the Brooklyn Heights li-

brary at Cadman Plaza West to developer Hudson Companies, which will knock it down and build

a wedge-shaped, 36-story residential tower in its place with a brand new book-lending branch at the base.

Following a contentious, years-long public review process — hey, Brooklynites love their libraries — and negotiations with local pols, the Council in late 2015 ap-proved the $52-million sale with a plan that includes:

• A new 26,620-square-foot library branch. • A second 5,000-square-foot branch to be built in

Dumbo.• 9,000 square feet of science and technology class-

rooms for use by the local school district• A residential component with 134 apartments, and

amenities including a gym and a 52-car garage.• Ground-floor retail.Construction is slated to begin in fall 2016 and wrap

up in summer 2020. — Ruth Brown


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T he iconic Downtown department store will undergo a major revamp after it sold off five stories of its more than century-old building to developer Tishman Speyer for $170 million last year.

Macy’s will condense its operations into the first four stories of its nine-story Fulton Mall building, and use the sale money for a renovation that includes new escalators and restrooms, uncovering windows to allow in more natural light, and video screens showing the borough’s most iconic landmarks.

The building will also undergo exterior renovations, in-cluding replacing its green awnings on Fulton Street with metal and glass archways. Work is scheduled to wrap in 2018.

Tishman Speyer also plans to add 10 floors of high-end of-fice space above the department store. — Lauren Gill

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T his long-time Downtown eyesore is looking better already — and that’s just because it is covered in scaffolding!

New York University is transforming the drab former Metropolitan Transportation Authority building at Jay

and Willoughby streets — widely considered one of the ugli-est buildings in the neighborhood — into a modern hub for re-searching and teaching the science of cities.

The higher education giant originally planned to wrap the entire structure in a flashy glass facade, but has since revised that into a more modest proposal to restore the 13-story build-ing’s limestone edifice and do a gut renovation.

Three floors of the building will be dedicated to the uni-versity’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, while other spaces will go to classrooms, and “incubators” for fledgling businesses.

Workers are also adding new mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as a 1-megawatt “micro-turbine” that will help power the property.

The five–year project is supposed to wrap up in spring 2017, but a rep for the university says the exact date is constantly changing. — Madeline Anthony

T his is no cosmetic surgery!New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope is in the

process of building a new facility at Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue. The six-story Center for Community Health is ex-

pected to treat 100,000 patients a year and will include:• An outpatient surgery center, with 12 operating rooms.• A suite for endoscopy, bronchoscopy, and pain manage-

ment procedures.• A cancer center.• Specialty institutes for orthopedics and cardiology.• A radiology imaging center.• A pre-surgical testing suite.Construction is slated to begin in September and wrap up three

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Summer is a great time for children to be more ac-tive.

School is out, and kids spend more of their days hav-ing fun outdoors. Whether your children are exploring the playground or splashing around at the beach, here are some ways to help keep them safe and healthy this summer:

• Watch children aroundwater: Kids of all ages should be supervised at lakes, pools, or other bodies of water. If your child doesn’t know how to swim, he or she should wear an approved life jacket.

• Wear sunscreen: Whengoing out in the sun, especially between the hours of 10 AM and 4 PM, make sure children put on sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or more that blocks UVA and UVB rays. Clothing that covers their skin can also help protect them. Just a few serious sunburns can increase your children’s risk of skin cancer later in life.

• Bicycle safety: Be surechildren wear a helmet, and follow traffic signals and signs. Dress children in bright clothes, and don’t let them ride at night.

• Protect from pests: Usebug spray containing DEET to keep mosquitoes away, and check for ticks after being out-doors.

• Car safety: Infants andchildren up to age 4 are at greatest risk for heat-related illness. Never leave infants or children in a parked car, even if the windows are cracked open.

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By Camille SperrazzaPrime, aged steaks; a fascinat-

ing array of cocktails; impeccable service; and wonderful entertain-ment — the elegant Atlas Steak-house brings a Manhattan-style ex-perience to Brooklyn.

Customers are awed when silver-colored trays display mon-strous superstars like a 48-ounce Tomahawk steak, a 32-ounce Por-terhouse, a 24-ounce rib eye, and an eight-ounce filet mignon — fabu-lous quality cuts of beef that will all be prepared the way each customer prefers.

Quality is everything, says owner David K. Yet, he manages to offer it at fair and reasonable costs.

“Our prices are better than what you find in the city by 10 to 20 per-cent,” he says, and portions are large enough to share.

Service is equally important. “Customers are welcomed into

our home,” he says. “Being greeted

properly is a very big deal, and our knowledgeable staff does that.”

Everything about the restaurant is designed with guests’ comfort in mind. Like the steaks, the chairs are oversized — luxurious brown leather behind spacious square ta-bles, set with bone-colored linen ta-ble cloths. For larger parties, there’s couch-like seating along a side wall. Crystal light fixtures and scenic mu-rals add to the refined ambiance. The lively bar is adjacent to sliding doors that open wide, letting in the sunlight or moonlight.

More than a place to dine, Atlas Steakhouse is a place to experience. On Friday nights, from 7 to 10 pm, customers can enjoy live saxophone entertainment. On Saturdays, from 7 to 10:15 pm, a pianist performs. On Sundays, from 5:30 to 8 pm, a singer and guitarist put on a show.

Singer Arielle Hill lit up the room with her rhythm-and-blues sounds and brilliant smile on June 16.

A master mixologist keeps the drinks flowing. It’s all top-shelf li-quor; the finest ingredients, as Da-vid is uncompromising.

“I only serve the kind of quality food and drinks I would eat myself and serve to my own family,” he says.

A sommelier has carefully cho-sen the wines, and an impressive wine wall lines the back of the res-taurant.

Brunch is offered on Saturdays and Sundays. You can get a mimosa and a choice of four mouthwater-ing omelets for $13.99. Or, maybe a Belgium waffle or a chicken crepe cooked in a creamy mushroom sauce. For $18, enjoy a cocktail of your choice, eggs benedict, and a Caesar salad. Coffee, tea, or orange juice is served with all options.

For special occasions like grad-uations, weddings, engagements, birthdays, and retirements, Atlas offers a family-style banquet menu.

“There’s food galore,” says Da-vid.

No one has to decide what to order because dishes of appetizers, meat, fish, chicken, salads, and lots more will be brought to the tables, served family-style. There’s a $65 per person option and a $100 per person option.

“We are open to anything clients want,” says David, and discounts on alcoholic drinks can also be ar-ranged.

“We want to make sure our cus-tomers have a good time when they are here,” he says.

Atlas Steakhouse [943 Coney Island Ave. between Newkirk and 18th avenues in Ditmas Park, (718) 940–9454, www.AtlasSteak.com]. Open Mondays through Thursdays, 4–10:30 pm; Fridays, 4–11:30 pm; for Saturday brunch, 11 am–3 pm and dinner 4–11:30 pm; for Sunday brunch, 11 am–3 pm; and dinner 4–10:30 pm.

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T here’s no stemming the flow of prog-ress.

A Brooklyn biotech wunderkind’s miraculous new wound-sealing gel

may be the next big thing in doctor’s offices and hospitals across the borough — and the country. New York University Poly-tech grad Joe Landolina created a goo that stops bleeding in under 10 seconds, and the 23-year-old pharmaceutical phenom is about to swell research and production at a new Sunset Park laboratory in a bid to win federal approval to use the high-tech band-aid on people. The topical tourniquet is already okayed for use in animals, and Landolina expects his new office in Indus-try City will let him pump out a prototype approved for people by 2018.

“We’re about two years away from hav-ing our first human approval from the FDA,” Landolina said. “We are building a 25,000 square foot new facility in Industry

City, that will be done at the end of this year. And then once that’s completed, we will be able to support manufacturing for both markets — animal and human. Out of that facility we will submit the first human FDA approval.”

Landolina invented the plant-based cut-closer — called Vetigel — and founded re-search company Suneris in 2010. The op-eration grew in the heart of Greenwood Heights, but the transplant to Sunset Park will let Landolina continue to expand the company by bringing in new blood, he said.

“It’s exciting, I really have enjoyed the whole process, growing the product, grow-ing the team, and getting that product out there,” the biotech engineer said. “It’s re-ally going from a facility that we built about two years ago, that’s only about 3,000 square feet. It will allow us to produce a lot of product, to produce the best product pos-sible, and to supply demand.”

Suneris has just 30 employees at its current lab — roughly the size of a tennis

court — but the new space, which will be nearly 10 times that, could house up to 120 workers, he said.

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Brooklyn biotech companies are tackling some of the world’s greatest health care is-sues at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.

IRX Therapeutics is developing methods to help the human immune system fight cancerous tumors. Typically, malignant lumps suppress the body’s normal desire to attack outside organisms and internal growth run amok. But IRX is developing a drug to restore some cancer patients’ abil-ity to fight tumors from within, and the regimen may reduce the risk of cancer re-turning after it is surgically removed, ac-cording to information from the company.

And nearby, the International Aids Vac-cine Initiative is developing and testing drugs that could prevent Acquired Im-mune Deficiency Syndrome — still among the top 10 causes of death across the globe, according to the World Health Organiza-tion. The company has offices and part-ners nationally and internationally, but the Aids Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory that opened in Sunset Park in 2008 is the company’s hub for creating and testing the potential remedy, according to information from the company.

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By JUlIanne CUBa

S heepshead Bay is the borough’s new development hot spot.

A 28-story condo — soon to be the area’s tallest structure — is going up

on Voorhies Avenue, a seven-story condo is rising where the El Greco Diner used to be near Emmons Avenue, and a slew of multi-story residences and office buildings are in the pipeline. Simply put, Sheepshead Bay is on fire with development, one real estate expert said.

“Sheepshead Bay — it’s hot, it’s hot,” said Aliaksandr Svetlakou of real-estate firm Cushman and Wakefield.

Greek arCHITeCTUreThe condos replacing El Greco Diner

will be the neighborhood’s centerpiece, ac-cording to Svetlakou.

“The former El Greco site is definitely going to be the center of attention, with all the business and the future development, the community will only benefit. It will definitely be a destination.”

Ryback Development is erecting the seven-story, 58-condo building at 2804 E. 19th Street at Emmons Avenue. A rooftop pool and some other luxury amenities will class up the seaside nabe, a Ryback spokes-man said.

“It’s going to be a very high-amenity building with a pool on the roof and with a doorman,” said Dennis Druzhinsky. “Defi-nitely going to be a change for the area.”

Construction is expected to wrap by 2018, but developers will start selling con-dos in June, he said.

GOInG UP!And Muss Development is building what

will easily be the area’s tallest structure at 1501 Voorhies Ave. — just outside of the Sheepshead Bay Road subway station. The 28-story-complex will tower 120 feet over the Saint Marks Roman Catholic Church’s 16-story steeple — the neighborhood’s cur-rent tallest point.

The luxury building will have 236 apart-ments for rent, and possibly condos, an in-sider said.

The high-end building will also feature a gym, a landscaped roof deck, a pool, and a grand lobby, said Muss chief executive of-

ficer Jeff Kay. Builders plan to complete the devel-

opment sometime in 2017 — and the firm can’t wait for its grand opening, said Kay.

“We’re excited about the development in Sheepshead Bay, there’s a lot going on, there’s a lot of people looking for some new, good products,” he said.

MOre On THe HOrIzOnAnd there’s a boatload of construction

happening all over the marina town, with most interest centered around the Sheep-shead Bay Road subway station, Kings Highway, and Ocean Avenue.

There are four new buildings — all six stories or higher — in the pipeline within a five-minute walk from the neighborhood’s eponymous subway stop.

Builders filed nine applications for new buildings six stories or more along Kings Highway in the last year, records show.

And the city has already approved four similar-sized residential buildings along Ocean Avenue between Avenues S and U, according to buildings department filings.

rUMOrS BUIlDInGDevelopment mania hit fever pitch re-

cently, when the rep for a condo-hungry cadre of investors made a pitch to buy two blocks of waterfront restaurants for rede-velopment as housing, one area property owner said.

“He tells me these people have $700 mil-lion and they’re buying all of Sheepshead Bay,” said Bobby Guarino, whose family owns a waterfront building on Emmons Avenue at E. 29th Street. “He said they want to buy everything from Il Fornetto to Stella Maris [two full blocks].”

And they may be more than idle rum-blings, an area real estate pro said.

“I’m not denying what you’re saying,” said Allan Profeta of Premiere Properties, who refused to comment further citing cli-ent confidentiality. “Maybe down the road we’ll talk about it.”

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C oney Island is hotter than a frank on the Fourth of July!

The city and developers will be pouring millions of dollars into

Brooklyn’s entertainment mecca in coming years to revitalize the People’s Playground to wow millions for another century. The city rezoned 19 blocks in the amusement district in 2009 to pave the way for a totally re-imagined stretch of fun parks, complete with hotels and new surf-side shops.

The Economic Development Corporation envisions amusement space, restaurants, and a high-rise hotel on four Surf Avenue blocks between the Brooklyn Cyclones’s home on W. 16th Street and its namesake roller coaster on W. 10th Street. A new tree-lined walkway — aptly named “Wonder Wheel Way” — will connect Coney landmarks the Cyclone, the Wonder Wheel, and the Parachute Jump and glue the amusement district together.

Expect more housing on the water, too. Three blocks worth of residential zoning west of the ballpark between Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk allow for 100-foot tow-

ers surrounded by low-rise residential buildings and mixed retail and amusement space along the Boardwalk. The city also designated blocks directly across Surf Av-enue from the ballpark to allow for shorter towers and ground-floor retail space.

THe COney ISlanD aMPHITHeaTerAnd Sodom by the Sea is shaping up

to be the go-to neighborhood for live mu-sic. Developers are putting the finishing touches on a nearly 5,000-seat, indoor-outdoor concert shell in the long-disused, landmarked Childs Restaurant building on the Boardwalk and W. 36th Street.

Real estate firm iStar Financial will lease the amphitheater property from the city through 2025 and tapped Live Nation to han-dle booking there. The booking giant has already lined up 33 acts at the amphitheater for this summer season. An advisory board full of entertainment bigwigs formed by Bar-clay’s Center executives have their hands in operations and concession company Leg-ends will handle food and drink there.

A set of hanger doors will close off the open side of the building itself in cold

months to transform the stage into an in-door venue for concerts and dancing. A full-service rooftop restaurant recreates the dining experience 20th-century gour-mands savored during the Childs Restau-rant’s heyday from the 1920s to the 1940s.

SHOre THeaTerA developer bought up the landmarked

and long neglected Shore Theater in early 2016, and last we checked the builder deter-mining the work needed to restore the lo-cally beloved playhouse back to its pre-war glory. When finished, the 2,500-seat venue will again entertain throngs of tourists and locals, a lawyer for the new owners said.

“The people of Coney Island can start looking forward to an amazing theater,” attorney Igor Oberman said. “They don’t want this to be just a seasonal venue — it will be for all seasons benefiting not only tourists, but the people here year-round.”

And Boardwalk boosters are over the moon about the news.

“This is wonderful news,” said Coney Is-land U.S.A. founder Dick Zigun, who has long advocated for the ailing theater. “If Coney Is-land is on a trajectory to go year-round and build hotels, you have to have nighttime en-tertainment and that’s the place to do it, at a landmarked Broadway-equivalent theater.”

The six stories above the theater are zoned for apartments, but new owners PYE Properties have not said what they plan to do with it.

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B rooklyn is on the move!The city and state are working to

improve commutes to the Borough of Kings — and make it easier to get

around once you’re here — with a swathe of new bridge and transit projects on and around the borough’s waterfront.

Ferry TaleSA new city-wide ferry service will weigh

anchor in 2017, adding five new stops along the Brooklyn waterfront and creating a more pleasant way for thousands of people to com-mute to work, according to Mayor DeBlasio.

“It’s going to be a commute like no other,” said DeBlasio, “fresh air, harbor views, and a fast ride on the open water.”

Come June, seafaring straphangers will be able to sail between stops in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo — then onto existing stops in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, or other boroughs if they wish — all for the price of a subway fare.

The city will pay $55 million to set up the system, then another $30 million annu-ally for six years to keep it afloat, and the service’s operator San Francisco’s Horn-blower Cruises and Events will kick in to buy 18 new 150-seat ferries equipped with wifi and bike racks.

City officials estimate around 12,000 people will ride the new boats every day,

and it will be a boon for other commut-ers, too — riders of the existing East River Ferry will see their fares drop from $4 to the same $2.75 fee as the new service.

HellO, TrOlleyTrolley dodging is set to return to

Brooklyn, with Mayor DeBlasio’s plan to build a $2.5-billion streetcar line from Sunset Park to Queens.

The ambitious project aims to connect transit-starved communities and growing business hubs — including Industry City in Sunset Park, Red Hook, and the Navy Yard in Fort Greene — that city honchos claim will help them become the neighbor-hoods of tomorrow.

“This corridor is where the present and the future of our city are happening,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen. “It’s where jobs and housing are growing, and where innova-tors and businesses are moving every day.”

The city predicts some 50,000 straphang-ers will ride the rails once the tram starts running in 2024 — but a lot has to happen before then.

There will be a lengthy community con-sultation process to help determine the route, and then even more public hearings once it is announced.

CrOSS PUrPOSeSTalk about building a bridge and get-

ting over it!

The state Department of Transportation is building an entirely new Kosciuszko Bridge to replace the antique that has car-ried the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway over the Newtown Creek between Green-point and Queens since 1939.

Workers are replacing the creaky old six-lane span with a $554.7-million soaring truss bridge framed by several 275-foot-tall towers, sporting five Queens-bound traffic lanes and four Brooklyn-bound lanes, as well as bike and passenger paths.

Traffic will start moving to the new bridge in 2017, as workers begin disman-tling the old one. The entire thing should be complete by 2020.

rIDe On!At long last, the Metropolitan Transpor-

tation Authority is seriously considering adding a bike path to the Verrazano-Nar-rows Bridge.

Transit advocates have been clamoring for a car-less crossing option practically since the bridge opened in 1964, and now the authority has committed $2.7 million to study the notion.

Officials are considering widening the span and adding bike and pedestrian lanes on the outside of the bridge, according to Bernard Kalus of engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff, which is conducting the study.

The authority anticipates the bike-path project would cost between $300 million and $400 million.

The study will be completed in 2017, ac-cording to a spokeswoman.

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B rooklyn is a garden of eatin’!The borough’s pastoral days are

long behind it, but a new breed of ur-ban farmers are feeding residents’

appetites for local, sustainable food by growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs inside factories, on rooftops, and anywhere else they can find a scrap of spare space. Here is a sampling of the crop:

GrazInG THe rOOFThe farmers at Brooklyn Grange looked

to the sky when searching for open space for an urban farm in 2010, and found it on the rooftops of two Navy Yard warehouses, where they grow a cornucopia of crops for Brooklynites looking to stay connected with their food source.

“We live in a society that is increasingly divorced from its food,” says Grange co-founder Anastasia Cole Plakias. “People are looking for a way to reconnect with it.”

The farm grows lettuce, tomatoes, honey, and fresh peppers across the two-and-a-half acre site, which it sells to doz-ens of restaurants as well as to regular consumers at an on-site stand, at farmers’

markets, and through a membership pro-gram that delivers a weekly box of edibles to your door.

It also sells honey it harvests from api-aries across the borough.

HerBal reMeDyWilliamsburg restaurant Meadowsweet

cultivates a herb garden in its windowsill, where cooks grow garnishes for dishes and drinks with a local touch.

The owners have a farm upstate, and say they wanted to bring that same home-grown approach into the eatery itself.

“We wanted to bring the growing pro-cess as close to guests as possible,” said Stephanie Lempert, whose husband Polo Dobkin is Meadowsweet’s chef.

The 6-foot long herb wall is filled with mint, pineapple, sage, cilantro, oregano, basil, and parsley.

THe kIDS are alrIGHTAt the Youth Farm in Crown Heights,

young people get their hands dirty learn-ing how to garden and farm, and the fruits of their labors then go into dishes at a bunch of local restaurants including Car-roll Gardens favorites Wilma Jean, But-termilk Channel, 61 Local, and Nightin-gale 9.

Citizens can also grab eggplant, cucum-bers, kale, and other fresh fare straight from the farm with membership boxes, or at an on-site store open Wednesdays from late June through October.

GrOwTH InDUSTryCall them fun-gals — a pair of mush-

room farmers are now growing an exotic fungus called lion’s mane inside a Bedford-Stuyvesant factory.

Jennifer Macdonald and Angela Watts first began growing the long, stringy mush-room variety in their closets and under their beds, but have now turned the hobby into an business at the old Pfizer building on Flushing Avenue called Shroom.

They plan to sell their product to local chefs.

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T he Navy Yard is looking shipshape!Fort Greene’s two-century-old for-

mer shipyard is charting a course to become one of the borough’s big-

gest business hubs, with the city pumping plenty of money into the site that it eventu-ally hopes will house 16,000 workers toil-ing away at cutting-edge companies.

“We’re proud to be investing in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as the center of a truly inclusive 21st-century economy,” said Mayor DeBlasio. “We’re also excited to be helping innovators pioneer urban technologies that will make our city more resilient for generations to come.

The massive waterfront industrial park between Vinegar Hill and Williamsburg is already home to film lot Steiner Studios, as well as 300 companies and studios making wine, art, toys, and tech products, and is now plugged into the city’s transit system, thanks to a new free shuttle bus running to local subway stops.

Here is a look at what else is on the way:

DOCk 72This mammoth 17-story office building

in the middle of the Navy Yard — the larg-est commercial construction project out-side of Manhattan in decades — will house start-ups and tech firms anchored by co-working office company We Work.

Outside of the offices, the facility will also include in-house eateries, a basketball court, a massage room, valet bicycle park-ing, and a rooftop conference center.

Developer Boston Properties and Ru-din Properties signed a 99-year, $47 mil-

lion lease on the property in 2015. Workers broke ground at the beginning of May, and are expected finish at the end of 2017.

BUIlDInG 77This 74-year-old former Naval storage

shed is currently undergoing a $185-mil-lion makeover to get ready for some high-profile tenants when it opens in 2017.

Iconic local craft brewer Brooklyn Brewery is relocating its headquarters from Williamsburg to the 16-story struc-ture in 2018, where it will lease one-and-a-half football fields’ worth of space that will include a rooftop eatery and brewery.

It will join another New York institu-tion, Manhattan appetizing shop Russ and Daughters, which will open a bakery, shipping center, catering operation, and a grab-and-go store serving breakfasts and lunches inside the building’s food hall.

Upstairs, do-gooding tech incuba-tor 1776 has signed on to open an outpost where it can help grow startups intent on transforming education, energy, health, and transportation industries.

weGManS The cult grocery chain known for its

dizzying selection and superior service is set to open its first New York City store in the Navy Yard in 2018.

The outpost will be Brooklyn’s larg-est supermarket — overtaking the Whole Foods in Gowanus by 20,000 square feet — but will be the smallest incarnation of the food mecca, which has 25 stores upstate.

The family-owned grocery store will also anchor the $140-million renovation of Admiral’s Row, a line of rundown houses that used house Coast Guard personnel.

MaST BrOTHerSThe local chocolatier is already manufac-

turing its confections in the Navy Yard, but is expanding its facility and doubling its 75-per-son workforce inside the Green Manufactur-ing Center, a repurposed old machine shop.

Inside, the company’s hipster Willy Won-kas will brew and bottle their non-alcoholic “chocolate beer” and offer educational tours to local grade-school students, as well as creating more signature chocolate bars.

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By Max JaeGer

T hey need the hook-up.Electric car maker Tesla Mo-

tors, which opened a showroom in Red Hook in March, is racing to fill

Brooklyn with charging stations so bor-ough drivers will buy its cars. The com-pany recently put nearly 70 jacks in Man-hattan parking garages — now there is one every five blocks — but it had to shift gears in relatively public-garage-sparse Brook-lyn and instead plug into luxury condo de-velopment, a company honcho said.

“Brooklyn is a tricky market — Man-hattan, oddly enough, is much easier,” said Tesla East Coast director Jeremy Snyder. “One thing I’m interested in is working with developers to ensure charge stations get specced into the garages that go into all of the new and re-purposed construction.”

There are fewer than two-dozen public vehicle-charging stations in Brooklyn, ac-cording to tracker plugshare.com.

And Tesla is wiring up every luxe crib it can, giving developers the charging sta-tions for free if they install special high-voltage circuits in their buildings, devel-opment insiders say.

“We provide the infrastructure, and they provide the chargers. We’ve been ac-tively working with them on almost every project we’re working on — seven right now, including two on the market and two that sold,” said Brendan Aguayo, manag-ing director of Halstead Property Devel-opment Marketing, who cited hook-ups at

Boerum Hill’s 31-condo 610 Warren Street, all 10 spaces at the Bam-adjacent town-houses State and Bond, and in the garage at Williamsburg’s just-finishing, 216-unit Oosten.

Brownstone Brooklyn’s condo develop-ment is buzzing with Tesla, according to a real estate broker who pointed to upcom-ing Boerum Hill 30-unit digs 465 Pacific Street and almost-done Gowanus 32-unit 345 Carroll Street.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in all the new developments that are happening right now,” said Millie Perry of Stribling & Associates.

Still, the cars have a niche market, and in a borough of rooftop dog runs and roof-top swimming pools, charging stations are not what makes one building stand out to buyers, but the charger-as-amenity will gain significance when Tesla rolls out its for-the-masses-priced Model 3 late next year, Aguayo said.

“I don’t know if it’s throwing anything over the top now, but as time progresses and Tesla becomes more name-brand, it’s going to be more appealing to a larger de-mographic,” he said.

Oh, and it’s laying cable in Brooklyn’s garages too, according to a Fort Greene operator who got hooked up two months ago.

“We had a customer who purchased a Tesla and ask us if we would install a charging station. I called up Tesla and they paid for it 100 percent,” said Robert Kotler of Discount Parking on Ashland Place.

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By DennIS lynCH

y ou don’t have to take a train to Long Island to get a taste of small-town life — just take a stroll down Bay Ridge’s Third Avenue.

The thoroughfare — the neighborhood’s longest — is lined with more than 300 busi-nesses, most of them mom-and-pops, ac-cording to the president of the Merchants of Third Avenue business association. The convenience and charm of shopping along Third Avenue is a huge draw for new resi-dents, and not surprisingly, it is one of the first things people miss when they move out, the business booster said.

“If you stop any shopper in Bay Ridge, I’m sure they’ll tell you they go to one place for sausage, another for bread, dry-clean-ing, the baker — that’s the allure of our community, you can walk everywhere,” Bob Howe said.

Howe said Third Avenue’s economic strength is the strong community of busi-ness owners who go above and beyond — including through his organization — to make the neighborhood attractive to new residents and businesses with events such as the annual Summer Stroll, which turns Third Avenue into a pedestrian plaza and brings businesses right out onto the street.

Here is a slice of what you can find on Third Avenue:

wICkeD MOnkThis Irish pub is one of the neighbor-

hood’s favorite watering holes. The own-ers imported stained glass and wooden fixtures that once adorned a century-old chapel at a monastery in County Cork, Ire-land to create one of the most unique bar-going experiences in the neighborhood.

It is the holy grail of places to imbibe, grub, and take in the live music booked there on Saturday nights and Sunday af-ternoons.

Wicked Monk [9510 Third Ave. at 95th Street, (347) 497–5152]

TanOreenWhat started in 1998 as a small, store-

front kitchen for owner Rawia Bishara to serve her mother’s unique interpretations of Galilean cuisine has become one of Bay

Ridge’s most celebrated eateries.Bishara’s 2014 cookbook, “Olive, Lem-

ons, & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking” has helped spread her reputation far beyond Brooklyn’s borders — drawing celebrities such as Bill Murray and Sarah Jessica Parker to her table.

Tanoreen [7523 Third Ave. at 76th Street, (718) 748–5600]

COCOa GrInDerThis hip and progressive coffee shop is

the newest business on this list. The indus-trial-inspired interior, strong coffee, and vegan grub brings to mind visions of Park Slope or Williamsburg more than Bay Ridge, but locals have embraced it.

Cocoa Grinder [8511 Third Ave. between 85th and 86th streets, (347) 517–4561]

GIaCOMO’S TraTTOrIaThe Italian population in Bay Ridge has

shrunk significantly since the days Tony Manero (of “Saturday Night Fever” fame) strutted the streets in 1977, but its legacy remains in numerous top-notch Italian

restaurants, including Giacomo’s.The restaurant’s namesake, Giacomo

Santangelo, recently started to bottle his beloved pasta sauce made with his fam-ily’s 54-year-old recipe to sell at supermar-kets far and wide, meaning a local favorite could soon become a household name be-yond Third Avenue.

Giacomo’s Trattoria [7902 Third Ave. at 79th Street, (718) 439–6993]

arT rOOMArt Room founder Leigh Holliday Bran-

nan opened her kids’ art school in 2010 to give area youth a safe space to be creative and learn about the finer points of the vi-sual arts. The classes are routinely packed, and some parents have enrolled their kids because of a lack of quality arts programs in their public schools.

The school recently held its first large art show since 2013, showcasing the work of more than 100 students — something Bran-nan said she hopes to repeat in the future.

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Brooklyn’s tech capital is getting an up-grade!

Dumbo is already one of the borough’s most desirable places to live, work, and play, thanks to its stunning views of the East River, thriving creative culture, historic

buildings, and proximity to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Now a swathe of new developments is set to take the neighborhood to the next level with high-end offices, world-class arts venues, and nightlife destinations, according to local business leaders.

“Dumbo is going to be an amplified version of it-self,” said Alexandria Sica, who is the president of local business booster group the Dumbo Business Improvement District.

Workers are currently wrapping up construc-tion on Dumbo Heights and Empire Stores — two massive new office and retail complexes that will breathe new life into old factories and attract anew breed of cutting edge companies, foodies, and shop-pers to the neighborhood.

FrOM Heavy InDUSTry TO TeCH InDUSTry These projects are just the latest chapter in the

neighborhood’s long history of reinvention and in-genuity.

The nabe — known at various points as Rapailie, Olympia, and part of Fulton Landing — started out as a residential area, but became Brooklyn’s manufac-turing powerhouse during the industrial revolution,

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home to factories turning the raw products being shipped into New York Harbor into shoes, soap, and Brillo pads, as well as the innovators behind the first cardboard box and pre-roasted packaged coffee.

After the Depression, much of the area fell into disrepair as factories went bust or moved elsewhere. But one unusual man-

ufacturer remained — religious group the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which had es-tablished its headquarters in Brooklyn Heights around the turn of the century, be-gan turning those old factories into mas-sive printing plants for its evangelical pub-lications.

The Witnesses remained the neighbor-

hood’s main inhabitants until the late 1970s, when struggling artists began mov-ing in for the cheap rent and abundant stu-dio space and gave it the moniker Dumbo — an acronym of Down Under the Manhat-tan Bridge Overpass — reportedly to make it undesirable to real estate tycoons.

They weren’t deterred, though — the area soon caught the eye of developer Da-vid Walentas of Two Trees, who began buy-ing the old warehouses to renovate into hip, high-end offices, condominiums, and stores.

Walentas, together with his son Jed, also recognized the value of Dumbo’s na-scent artistic scene, and offered cheap and free rent for some studios, galleries, and

the renovated Empire Stores (at left above, and on pages 36 and 37) will marry the Civil War-era ware-houses’ brick exterior with a modern interior. the revamped Empire Stores is set to turn the dumbo waterfront into a shopping and eating destination. (left) developer Kushner Companies is revamping the old Jehovah’s Witnesses printing factories as a modern office, retail, and restaurant complex. the buildings’ famed skywalks — which allowed work-ers to go from building to building when dumbo’s streets were riddled with crime — will remain.

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theaters to keep it alive — which, in turn, attracted well-to-do residents and cool startups.

In 2016, Dumbo’s cobblestoned streets are still home to many artists, as well as some of Brooklyn’s wealthiest people and hottest tech companies including online craft market giant Etsy and digital agency Huge — all inside revamped warehouses still bearing painted signs from the indus-trial giants of yesteryear.

a MaSS exODUSBut change is once again afoot. During

the past decade, the Witnesses have been selling off all its Brooklyn properties as it prepare to relocate upstate, creating un-precedented opportunities for new devel-opments in the area.

In 2013, developer Kushner Companies — owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — bought five former Wit-ness buildings in the area bound by Ad-ams, High, and Jay streets for $373 mil-lion, which it is now transforming into a massive office and retail complex dubbed Dumbo Heights.

Co-working office powerhouse WeWork has already moved in, and Etsy will soon relocate its offices there too, alongside a host of retail outlets, eateries, and bars to cater to the new companies, which will move in gradually over the next couple of years.

One of the incoming vendors says the area’s proximity to public transit was a big draw — as well as the prospect of tapping into the area’s young, creative workforce and cool companies.

“It’s so accessible, the industries that are being formed down there in tech and a lot of entrepreneurship are also inspiring,” said Nick Stone, founder of Australian-style cafe chain Bluestone Lane, which is opening its first Brooklyn store in the com-plex. “It’s a great environment.”

Bluestone Lane will join outlets of health-food chain Dig Inn, sustainable sandwich joint Untamed Sandwiches, and Glaze Teri-yaki, alongside fitness chains including Shadowbox, Row House, and Yoga Vida.

Kushner Companies and a team of other developers have also reportedly inked a deal to turn a sixth neighboring Witnesses property into a swanky 600-key hotel in conjunction with Brooklyn-born hotelier Ian Schrager, which is slated to include a screening room, banquet space, a night-club, and a rooftop restaurant.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses do not like do-

ing business with people outside the orga-nization, which led to a dearth of retail and restaurant options in and around its build-ings, so Sica says she is excited for new venues that will give residents and visitors more to do when the sun goes down.

“Dumbo has always been in need of more dining and drinking options, and this is going to be epic and take us to the next level,” she said.

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neighborhood is Brooklyn Bridge Park,

the sprawling waterfront space that stretches from the Manhattan Bridge through Brooklyn Heights and has been in the works since 2008.

The Dumbo end of the park encompasses seven warehouses on Water Street between Old Dock and Main streets known as Em-pire Stores, a stronghold of the nabe’s in-dustrial days — where “coffee king” John Arbuckle changed the way Americans drank coffee with his famed Ariosa brand — that is set to become a center of business and innovation once again when it opens in fall 2016.

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o f all the Dumbo properties the Jehovah’s Witnesses are selling off to developers, none may have a bigger impact on the future of

the nabe than an empty parking lot at the corner of Jay and Front streets.

That’s because the city-block–sized lot is one of the last undeveloped parcels of land in the area and it is zoned for resi-dential use — unlike the church’s old of-fices and factories — which means the buyer will have the rare opportunity to build a huge complex of housing high-rises in the borough’s priciest neighbor-hood, according to a spokesman for the religious group.

“It’s probably the last opportunity like this in the Dumbo area in my life-time,” said Richard Devine of Watch-tower Real Estate.

The Witnesses convinced the city to

rezone the land in 2004 in order to build residents for its members, but never ac-tually went through with the plan.

Now someone else will. The property, adjacent to the York

Street F station, is the size of two-and-a-half football fields. It could fit 1,000 new units of housing — and even more people — which would mean a dramatic change to the neighborhood’s roughly 4,000-person population.

And because all of this can be built “as of right” — that is, with no extra permission needed from the city — any buyer wouldn’t have to go through a community consultation process or in-clude any below-market housing, un-less it wants tax breaks or to build even more units than is currently allowed.

As of printing, the Witnesses have not announced a buyer, though a 2015 New York Post article claimed that a consortium of developers led by Kush-ner Companies has a handshake agree-ment to purchase the land for $700 mil-lion — roughly twice what Kushner paid for five of the church’s office build-ings.

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The structure was empty and decaying for 68 years until Midtown Equities penned a 96-year lease on it in 2013, and now the developer is in the midst of a $150-million renovation that will fill the brick buildings with office, retail, restaurant, and cultural spaces that a park spokeswoman says will be a win for the new tenants and park-go-ers alike.

“After sitting vacant and impenetrable for decades, it’s very exciting that these historic warehouses have been adaptively reused,” said Belinda Cape, spokeswoman for Brooklyn Bridge Park. “Empire Stores is really going to invigorate this part of Brooklyn Bridge Park and Dumbo.”

Some big-names have already signed on — locally based furniture retailer West Elm will take over a third of the property with its new company headquarters, and Los Angeles advertising firm 72 and Sunny is setting up an office there.

For visitors, Empire Stores will host a satellite museum of the Brooklyn Histori-cal Society, outposts of beloved area eatery

Vinegar Hill House and upscale London eatery Pizza East, a rooftop beer garden, and a storefront for trendy Detroit watch-maker Shinola.

The project is the neighbor of another re-cently renovated Civil War-era depot in the park — the Tobacco Warehouse between New Dock and Old Dock streets, which is now home to avant-garde performing arts center St. Ann’s Warehouse.

The theater — a Dumbo institution since 2001 — spent two years and $30 million filling the shell of the landmarked factory with seats and a stage, and opened the new digs late last year. It has already hosted per-formances from acclaimed actors including Gillian Anderson and Mark Rylance.

Other recent additions to the park in-clude an environmental educational center on Plymouth Street, where kids can learn about local marine life, and an outdoor rock-climbing wall under the Manhattan Bridge. Later this year, the Brooklyn Chil-dren’s Museum will open an outpost next door at John and Adams streets, at the

base of in-park condo building 1 John St.

Dark SIDe OF THe BOOMDumbo’s boom isn’t without its down-

sides — many smaller stores and arts ven-ues have closed due to rising rents in re-cent years.

In a sign of the times, popular perfor-mance venue Galapagos Art Space — one beneficiary of Two Trees’ discounted rent program — decamped for even cheaper digs in Detroit in 2014 after eight years as a hub of burlesque and aerial arts.

But for one longtime business owner, the changes have been overwhelmingly positive.

“When I was first there, there were no people and no sidewalks, it was very des-olate,” said Gleason’s Gym owner Bruce Silverglade, who moved the famed boxing studio to the neighborhood 31 years ago. “Now it’s a thriving metropolis and I’m still awed with the number of people who are there. It’s a total transformation and all for the better.”

(Clockwise from above) Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new rockclimbing wall under is already a hit with families. the landmarked tobacco Warehouse is now home to performing arts venue St. Ann’s Warehouse. Bluestone lane founder Nick Stone is opening a cafe inside the dumbo heights complex. Vendor Kate flaherty shows off her wares at Brooklyn flea, which recently opened a bazaar under the manhat-tan Bridge. Even dumbo’s public art is welcoming.

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