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NEW: @USClimate is launching a new initiative to train one million climate & clean energy apprentices by 2035!
As co-chair of the Alliance, I’m proud to be working with other states to train workers for these jobs — because climate action and economic growth go hand-in-hand. pic.twitter.com/bUPy8on950
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) September 23, 2024
Just in time for Climate Week NYC, elected officials announced on Monday new federal funding to revitalize the waterfront Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT).
U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman said the city received a whopping $163.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund the project, which advocates say would ultimately result in fewer trucks on city streets and less emissions in the air.
In May, the NYC Economic Development Corporation gained control of the waterfront BMT in Red Hook from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in an agreement that also gave the agency full ownership of the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island.
Goldman said the grant is another milestone in transforming the waterfront area, helping the environment and spurring economic growth.
“While the Brooklyn Marine Terminal had been mired in decades of inertia, we have entered a new era with this long overdue federal funding,” he said. “This infusion will allow our city to fully enhance the economic growth and health of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, while taking into account the public health and climate goals of surrounding communities. The future is here, and it’s looking bright for Brooklyn.”
The revitalization of the BMT will also help create a working waterfront and modern maritime infrastructure, elected officials noted.
“By building a better Brooklyn Marine Terminal, we’re building a better future for Brooklyn and the whole region,” added state Sen. Andrew Gounardes. “This federal funding will help make up for years of disinvestment of the piers and allow us to invest in a modernized terminal that can sustainably handle freight deliveries, reduce emissions, expand economic opportunity and create new jobs.”
Goldman added that the funding — part of the country’s Mega Grant program — is an “incredible” investment for the neighborhood and borough.
The grant, Mayor Eric Adams said, will allow the city to take “major steps forward” to building a “safer and more affordable” NYC.
“We’re bringing thousands of jobs and billions in economic impact to our city by transforming the Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a modern, 21st-century maritime port and mixed-use community hub,” he said.
The mayor also announced that separate funding would help support another city infrastructure project: A greenway on 10th Avenue in Inwood.
“This helps get us that much closer to having New Yorkers be able to bike and walk all the way around Manhattan on greenways,” Adams said. “And as we kick off Climate Week, these investments will help us build a cleaner, greener city for all New Yorkers.”
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler said in a previous Brooklyn Paper article that the May agreement could potentially increase truck traffic and kill jobs in the area, though the new grant is expressly for repairing pier 10, modernizing select piers for containers capacity and making improvements to reduce traffic.
“Red Hook is the only remaining container port facility on the eastern side of the Hudson River, and it is of critical importance to New York City and the entire region that this port remains open and not converted into housing or other usage,” Nadler said. “I’m disappointed that the Port Authority abandoned this deal despite having a 100-year responsibility to steward the port and ensure the success of the port of New York.”
Police on Friday released the body camera footage from a Brownsville police-involved shooting, almost one week after the incident wounded an officer and left a commuter with brain damage.
The release of the dramatic video comes amidst citywide outrage over the Sept. 15 shooting that many advocates and city officials say should not have happened, while police brass charge the officers involved did everything they could to end the confrontation without deadly force.
The NYPD stitched together a video for its YouTube account on Sept. 20 that shows a mixture of surveillance video and body cam footage from both officers involved in the altercation.
“You will see relevant video footage and other available evidence that will allow you to gain a better understanding of the events that led up to the incident and what occurred during the incident based on the facts that we know at this time,” Assistant Commissioner, Carlos Nieves said at the beginning of the video. “New York State law and NYPD policy gives police officers the authority to use reasonable force under appropriate circumstances.”
The video shows 37-year-old Derell Mickles walk through an open gate at the Sutter Avenue station on the L line. Transit police officer Wong and Police Officer Mays appear to immediately follow Mickles, who yells at the cops to get away from him. The pair trailed him onto an arriving train and commanded him to drop a knife, according to the released video.
Both officers deploy their tasers, do not appear to affect Mickles before he leaves the train, and briefly charge at Officer Mays, resulting in both cops unleashing a barrage of shots. During the chaos, two civilians were struck by gunfire, including 49-year-old Gregory Delpeche, who is now with brain damage.
While Mayor Eric Adams spent the week defending the officers’ actions, Hizzoner declined to go quite as far upon the video’s release.
“Our condolences go out to the innocent bystanders involved in this incident and their families, and like all New Yorkers, we’re praying for their immediate recovery. No one wants to see innocent people get hurt because anytime a New Yorker is injured during a crime, we all, collectively, share the profound pain,” part of the statement read. “While this matter remains under investigation, the NYPD’s initial review found that this shooting took place after the suspect involved brandished a dangerous weapon and put officers’ lives at risk. While the formal review continues, and out of respect for that process, I will avoid commenting any further.”
On Wednesday police brass charged that the incident was not about fare evasion but instead about a man holding a deadly weapon. However, the incident has cast new scrutiny of subway policing and sparked protests that have seen mass fare evasion.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also released a statement in the hours following the bodycam release, in which he made a scathing rebuke of the incident, going as far as to say that no shot was needed or should have been fired.
“This horrifying video, which took a week to release, was years of failure in the making. Years of inadequate resources for mental health support. Years of building systems and responses that criminalize issues of poverty and mental health. Years of flooding the subway with wave after wave of law enforcement, and setting their focus on fare evasion,” part of the statement read. “Four people shot, one a fellow officer, one an innocent bystander who may never recover. Not a single shot needed to be fired at the moment officers fired into a train with people in it.”
This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork Metro
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