nycedc: “At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, industrial buildings are being rejuvenated so that people can do what they always did there: make things.” - Justin Davidson, New York Magazine Manufacturing is making a comeback in Brooklyn. The borough, which in recent years has become synonymous with the artisanal revolution, is returning to its industrial roots with a 21st century spin. On a 300-acre plot of land between Williamsburg and DUMBO lies the remnants of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This summer, construction began, transforming several existing buildings in the Navy Yard into Green Manufacturing Center, which is expected to be completed in 18 months, and The New Lab, a collaborative design and fabrication laboratory that already has several tenants lined up. While Brooklyn manufacturers are no longer turning out spools of thread on an assembly line, modern technology has enabled the return of manufacturing, and with it, jobs. Read more in MetroFocus: “A Manufacturing Renaissance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard” and learn about NYCEDC’s Industrial initiatives. Rendering courtesy of Macro Sea

nycedc:

“At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, industrial buildings are being rejuvenated so that people can do what they always did there: make things.”

- Justin Davidson, New York Magazine

Manufacturing is making a comeback in Brooklyn. The borough, which in recent years has become synonymous with the artisanal revolution, is returning to its industrial roots with a 21st century spin. On a 300-acre plot of land between Williamsburg and DUMBO lies the remnants of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This summer, construction began, transforming several existing buildings in the Navy Yard into Green Manufacturing Center, which is expected to be completed in 18 months, and The New Lab, a collaborative design and fabrication laboratory that already has several tenants lined up.

While Brooklyn manufacturers are no longer turning out spools of thread on an assembly line, modern technology has enabled the return of manufacturing, and with it, jobs.

Read more in MetroFocus: “A Manufacturing Renaissance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard” and learn about NYCEDC’s Industrial initiatives.

Rendering courtesy of Macro Sea

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“Detroit is the most relevant city in the United States for the simple reason that it is the most unequivocally modern and therefore distinctive of our national culture: in other words, a total success. Nowhere else has American modernity so completely had its way with people and place alike.” 

- Jerry Herron, WSU American Studies Director

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