How the left killed another major NYC development
More than a year after Amazon, New York developers lose second major battle in the AOC era.
Industry City
Unused industrial buildings and land stand at the Bush Terminal in New York's Sunset Park neighborhood in Aug. 2020. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
By JANAKI CHADHA
09/25/2020 06:49 PM EDT
NEW YORK — It’s New York City’s biggest development setback since the deal to bring Amazon’s headquarters to Queens flopped last year — and the latest victory for New York’s ascendant left.
The Industry City megaproject — a planned repurposing of a former industrial area on the Brooklyn waterfront — weathered relentless community opposition as it worked through a very public, very political approval process. After years of delay, the project was closer than ever to moving forward, even as the coronavirus pandemic halted nearly every other major construction effort in New York.
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