It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Tiffany Hansen filling in for Brian today.

A $3.5 billion proposal to redevelop the Brooklyn Marine Terminal has been in limbo for much of the past year.

Supporters say it would bring housing, green space, and manufacturing jobs to a severely underutilized

stretch of industrial waterfront along the New York Harbor. It's been in limbo because a key vote to move the project

forward keeps being delayed to prevent the proposal from failing. It's been delayed five times now.

Another vote on the proposal is scheduled for this coming Monday. Now, normally this might sound

like deja vu all over again, but this time the math appears to be different.

Two crucial holdouts. New York City Councilmember Shahana Hanif and our guest today, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, now support the plan.

The Brooklyn Borough president joining us now to talk about the proposal and why he's changed his mind. Welcome back. Thank you so much,

Tiffany. Happy to be here. All right, so let's just talk for folks who really aren't familiar with the

project, can you just start by outlining for us where things stand right now? So now it seems

like there are enough votes to start moving forward with support of a plan.

So it's a port, obviously, that has been working outside of its capacity for quite some time.

It's pretty much been neglected or abandoned, I would say, by the New York and New Jersey Port Authority.

EDC or the agency EDC is now going to take over the site and look to redevelop it, not only for housing and manufacturing, but is also adding some other amenities, I guess.

Obviously, there's a lot of tension inside the working group or the task force because there are many different interests

looking to align themselves in one goal and I don't necessarily know if EDC or

the leadership of the task force have done a good job here but I think how the

sausage is made in this in this one instance is not as important as like what we got at the end here

well to be fair this isn't just a as I understand it and correct me if I'm wrong this

proposal includes keeping the port operational you you mention all of these other things

green space things like that housing but this is

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