PREFACEPREFACETHE CITY S EXPERIENCING ARED HOOK HOUSES RESIDENTSMOST OF RED HOOK IS AHOUSING CRISIS WITH AANNUAL MEDIAN INCOME IS10 TO 25 MINUTE WALK FROMTHE SUBWAYSOUTHWEST BROOKLYN WILLSOUTHWEST BROOKLYN WILLSOUTHWEST BROOKLYN WILLADD 49.540 NIW HOUSING UNITSGENERATE S5,700绿A风MMO民度J0B5T我ANSIT ACCES5wETO英JSCRESIDENT等Like all great cities.New York has remade itself in the face of enormous change-Today,the City faces a moment in time that will define its future for decades tofroma portcity to mercantile hubtoindustrialcentertofinancialcapitaland to.today.come.Worldwide economic forces,questions of equity,the whole idea of what is na global city,touching the entire worid on a daily basis.These transformations haveneighborhood,and dramatic climate change will drive and transform New York Citybeen driven by economic transitions,seismic migrations from inside and outsideregardless.Each is a given.The question becomes,can each one of these quostionsof the country,sociat and cultural upheaval and vast technological innovations.be answered in a way that creates an equitable.sustainable and resitient city.At times.these transformations have been chaotie and turbulent,causing socialunrest and conflict;other times,they have been the result of political stability andThis document does not provide an answer to these challenges.rather it presentsa framework for a civic discussion on how the City might balance these challenges.using Southwest Brooklyn as a way to ask that most basic question:What kind ofive years.and a miltion new jobs needed,the City faces tremendous questions ofcity do people want to live in?it has as its foundation the same three pillars:thehow and where it will grow,and what that growth will mean for all New Yorkers.emironment,now more broadly defined as climate change and sea levet rise:thechallenge of mobility,transportation,and the connectivity to create and maintainThroughout its history.three constants have formed the foundation of the City.eachneighborheods:and,a housing market that can accommodate all of the peopleone fundamentally related to the other.Most importantly,they have endured,atneeded to live and work in the new economy This document looks at these issuestimes to the point of collapse.due to long-term civic engagement and vision.First.through the guading princples of growth.oquity.resiliency and sustainability.Theit was the basic emironmental question of delivering fresh clean drinking water tofuture of the City will not be found in a singte vision.Instead,it must be the resulta densely settled and rapidly growing population.Second,it was the transportationof a constant corwersation with the City as a whole.Southwest Brooklyn might besystem,how to get peopte from home to work.Finally it was housing.the growthwhere that conversation begins.nt of quality and affordable housing throughout the five boroughsit has been these three pillars that have allowed the City to grow literally from asmall fort at the tip of Manhattan to the global center it is today,changing andtransforming.growing and contracting.but in every decade driving a new vision fora city not yet realized.理素村网Z..E7
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