The Brooklyn Paper: SNA Newspaper of the Year, 2007

The current issue
By Neighborhood
Not Just Nets
GO Brooklyn
Perspective
Parenting
Brooklyn Cyclones
The Brooklyn Bride
Brooklyn Boom
Classifieds
About The Paper
RSS Feeds
Hall Street Storage

Dockworkers love Eliot

By Ariella Cohen
The Brooklyn Paper

Share this story

digg
del.icio.us

Red Hook’s dockworkers think Gov. Spitzer could be the captain that saves them from the Bloomberg administration’s plan to close their cargo port on the Red Hook waterfront.

The city’s Economic Development Corporation wants to evict port operator American Stevedoring and build a tourist-friendly development that would include a new brew house for Brooklyn Brewery, a smaller industrial port as well as a 250-room hotel, artist’s studios and maritime-themed attractions.

Spitzer has committed to reviewing the city’s plan, according to an administration spokesman. And last week, his newly appointed Port Authority head said the regional agency also plans to look closely at the city plan before giving the green light promised by former Gov. Pataki.

Brooklyn Bridge Realty

So dockworkers cheered: “I have faith in this governor doing what’s right and what will keep us working,” said Anthony Intartaglia, a second-generation longshoreman.

©2007 The Brooklyn Paper

< Park Slope: A thriving Catholic school? That is news!
Civic Calendar >

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

The Melting Pot
New York Blood Center
La Bagel Delight