You are here

Home

Sunset Park

Living Libraries

Past Project last updated March 31, 2009

An Affordable Housing Opportunity Takes Root

New York City's branch libraries play a vital role in the life of the city, acculturating new generations of immigrants, supplementing children's education beyond school walls, and offering new media to those who would not otherwise have access to technology.

Read more

Pratt Center eNews - Winter 2008

News last updated February 2, 2008

In this Issue:

  • A Message from Pratt Center Director Brad Lander
  • Supporting Small Retailers
  • Connecting Congestion Pricing and Transportation Equity
  • Meet the Pratt Center Staff: Wendy Fleischer
  • Building a Balanced Sunset Park
  • City Adopts Community Plan for West Harlem
  • Introducing The Eminent Domain
  • One City/One Future Sparks Discussion
  • We're 45! Please Support the Pratt Center

Read more

Sunset Park Rezoning

Project last updated April 29, 2009

Sunset Park residents envision neighborhood growth

Planning the Scale of Future Development

The Pratt Center worked with Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez and Community Board 7 to help residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn weigh in on current development and a potential rezoning. The project has its roots in a grassroots campaign waged by area residents, who successfully lobbied against one developer's plans to construct a twelve-story building that would have marred the view from Sunset Park. After convincing the developer to significantly scale down plans, residents recognized the larger need to rezone the neighborhood, where new development currently faces no height restrictions. The community momentum around rezoning also presented an opportunity to address pressing related issues, notably the need to preserve and create affordable housing.

Read more

Sunset Park Commuters

Map last updated September 22, 2010

Read more

Sunset Park Workers

Map last updated October 4, 2010

Read more

Transportation Equity Atlas Debuts

News last updated October 6, 2010

The Pratt Center has just released the Transportation Equity Atlas, a collection of downloadable maps showing commuting patterns and the length of rides to work for residents of a dozen low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in New York City, from East Flatbush to East Elmhurst to Washington Heights. The Atlas also shows where workers at major employment centers in the boroughs live, and how they get to work.

The Transportation Equity Atlas arrives just as the MTA announces fare hikes that add to the burden borne by low-income riders, who have already suffered the brunt of recent cutbacks in service.

Based on 2000 U.S. Census data, the Transportation Equity Atlas shows that even when the transit system had more frequent and extensive service, riders in the Atlas neighborhoods endured extremely long commutes to work. For example, more than half of subway riders in Soundview, in the Bronx, had rides of one hour or more.

Read more

RenewableNY: Bringing Manufacturing Businesses the Power to Retrofit

Report last updated April 27, 2011

In 2005, the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN), now a program of the Pratt Center for Community Development, launched RenewableNY, an initiative to encourage industrial companies in New York City to implement energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, including solar electric and thermal installations, lighting replacements, and boiler upgrades.

The success of the program is now documented in a report from the Pratt Center, "RenewableNY: Bringing Manufacturing Businesses the Power to Retrofit." With a combination of project management and nearly $1 million in strategically timed small grants, NYIRN helped 39 NYC companies, employing more than 3,000 people, to implement energy efficiency projects. The projects leveraged an additional $2 million in private and public investment.

renewableny.pdf

Read more

City Council Committee on Waterfronts

Testimony last updated September 25, 2008

Committee on Waterfronts

September 25, 2008

Intro No. 809 – In relation to the City Planning Commission

Good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Barrett and I am the Research and Policy Associate for
the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN). NYIRN is a citywide economic development organization that works to promote both blue-collar jobs and sustainable development.

Read more

Pages