Creating a Blue Highway Hub at Brooklyn Marine Terminal
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Brooklyn Marine Terminal: All Maritime Plan Report
January 27, 2026: Tom Fox, of the City Club of NY will presented his Brooklyn Brooklyn Marine Terminal All Maritime Plan. Developed with input from local maritime professionals, environmental planners, and Red Hook residents. This effort builds on decades of public commitment to preserving Red Hook's historic working waterfront, as outlined in the 197A Plan and reaffirmed through extensive community participation in many community planning studies over the years.
Most recently, the community held a planning session to reaffirm our position and to understand our shared values by having community members participate in the James Rojas planning exercise. An all maritime alternative plan was requested by community members and the Task Force throughout the EDC engagement but was never provided. This plan acts as a catalyst for conversation for reimagining the BMT as a vibrant maritime and logistics hub—a “Blue Highway” gateway that expands commercial port activity, creates local jobs, and strengthens our neighborhood’s climate resilience and emergency preparedness. It proposes modernizing BMT without displacing critical industrial uses or endangering the environmental and economic future of Red Hook. We invite all community members to view this presentation and share their feedback. Your voices are essential as we work together to ensure a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future for our waterfront.
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January 15, 2026- From Resilient Red Hook: This video presents a maritime-supported alternative plan for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT), developed with input from local maritime professionals, environmental planners, and Red Hook residents. This effort builds on decades of public commitment to preserving Red Hook's historic working waterfront, as outlined in the 197A Plan and reaffirmed through extensive community participation in many community planning studies over the years. Most recently the community held a planning session to reaffirm our position and to understand our shared values by having community members participate in the James Rojas planning exercise.
The all maritime alternative plan reimagines the BMT as a vibrant maritime and logistics hub—a “Blue Highway” gateway that expands commercial port activity, creates local jobs, and strengthens our neighborhood’s climate resilience and emergency preparedness. It proposes modernizing BMT without displacing critical industrial uses or endangering the environmental and economic future of Red Hook.
We invite all community members to view this presentation and share their feedback. Your voices are essential as we work together to ensure a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future for our waterfront.