The Sunset Park public library project in Brooklyn not only revitalized one of the borough’s busiest branches, it also combines public library facilities with 100% affordable housing—a first for New York City, says the project team.

The project revitalized a historic 1920s-era French Baroque theater —that once hosted Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald—by preserving its former grandeur while integrating modern technologies to meet today’s performance standards.

Working under a design-build delivery approach, the team completed replacement of two tower elevator systems on the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, a 540-ft-long vertical lift span built in 1937, and rehabilitated mechanical components, including the span locks. 

A decade after Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City’s largest transit rail yard complex, the combined Stillwell Avenue Yard, Avenue X Yard and Coney Island Yard now boast enhanced resilience to withstand future storms.

Flooding and other building damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 is a distant memory following capital improvements that included a 10-story addition, interior renovations, resilient power systems and a new 4-ft-high floodwall.

The Adams Street branch is the first new library built in Brooklyn since 1983 and the first branch constructed in the DUMBO neighborhood—the result of dozens of meetings with community members aimed at providing new resources for the area and fostering civic literacy.

A 471,000-sq-ft residential high-rise in Brooklyn’s Coney Island will get sustainable heating and cooling from underground wells when open in 2024.

In spite of 2020 challenges that included shuttering non-essential construction sites, the construction sector in New York and New Jersey completed scores of noteworthy projects—a number of which achieved recognition as ENR New York 2021 Best Projects.

The 850,000-sq-ft project consists of two residential buildings connected by a mixed-use podium and surrounded by an acre of public open space along the Brooklyn waterfront, helping transform the area from its industrial roots to a dynamic gateway neighborhood.

Built in 1928 as the Leverich Towers Hotel, the Brooklyn Heights property is now an upscale senior living facility.<