The New Williamsburg Waterfront
April 22, 2008 |
APRIL 22, 2008 | 6:30 PM
NYPL Donnell Library Auditorium
20 West 53rd Street between 5th & 6th Avenues
The reinvented Williamsburg waterfront is the focus of the third evening of our sustainable city series Re: NY. The richly historic, once-thriving industrial zone is witnessing a rapid transformation as a burgeoning residential neighborhood. New condominium developments, large and small, such as The Edge, Northside Piers and Palmer’s Dock, and Schaefer Landing, along with adaptive reuse of landmark structures such as the Austin Nichols warehouse, offer an impressive range of goals of sustainable urbanism: brownfield reclamation, public parks and waterfront access, a percentage of affordable housing, and LEED-certified design and construction.
The presentations and panel will feature the developers of the major residential developments and public officials who conceived and crafter the rezoning effort in a discussion of what is going right and where there is room for improvement.
Shaun Donovan, Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Stephen B. Jacobs, President, The Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Dan Kaplan, Senior Principal, FXFOWLE Architects, PC
Jeffery E. Levine, Principal, Douglaston Development
Tom O’Gara, Principal, JMH Development
Ron Moelis, Principal, L&M Equity Participants
Robert Powers, Powers & Company, Inc.
Philip Tugendrajch, E T Partners, LLC, consultant to L&M/BFC Development, LLC
ADMISSION
$2.50 Students/Seniors
$5 Adults
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| Location Information |
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NYPL Donnell Library Auditorium |
20 West 53rd Street
between 5th & 6th Avenues
New York, NY 10019 |
| Website:
www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/ |
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| Contact Information |
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Emma White |
| Email:
programs@skyscraper.org |
| Phone:
212-945-6324 |
| Fax:
212-732-3039 |
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