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Brooklyn has acres and acres of abandoned lots. How hard could it be to make something of them? By Maggie Astor
’Tis the season. Photos by Anthony Rhoades, with text by Sara Goudarzi
The future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, according to the man who hopes to remake it. Interview by John Surico
A local leader reflects on the life and times of a neighborhood mostly unshaken — for now, at least — by Brooklyn’s development boom. Interview by Angela Almeida