Project by Wayne Chen
North Brooklyn has lived with factories, warehouses, truck yards and apartment buildings pressed up against each other for a long time. This atlas looks at one slice of that landscape. It focuses on the Greenpoint–Williamsburg Industrial Business Zone and the mixed residential blocks that sit within a half-mile of it. I am interested in where industrial activity and truck access come closest to people’s homes. The maps that follow use simple distance measures to locate blocks where that proximity is tight. The goal is not to prove that any one block is “good” or “bad.” It is to give planners and local partners a clearer picture of where everyday industrial life and everyday residential life overlap the most.
