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Opinion: Development Without Displacement at Broadway Junction - City Limits

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“Our elected officials have a choice: be complicit in our displacement or successfully fight for these anti-displacement measures.” The Broadway Junction area, which lies at the nexus of three communities—Bushwick, Ocean-Hill, Brownsville, and East New York—has been slated to receive nearly $1 billion in public and private investment. The public investment has the potential to be transformative in this disinvested area.  However, government officials must learn from the past and put protections for local residents in place to prevent speculation-induced displacement. In 2023, the city announced $500 million in investments to: bring long-overdue ADA  accessibility to the station, erect two new public plazas, make streetscape improvements, and relocate the Transit Police District 33 station. These investments come on top of the $21.6 million the city committed as part of the East New York Neighborhood Plan to renovate the adjacent Callahan-Kelly Playground, and the roughly $202 million i

Share This Article Share Post “Our elected officials have a choice: be complicit in our displacement or successfully fight for these anti-displacement measures.” A South West view of the Fulton Street and Van Sinderen Avenue intersection from one of Broadway Junction’s elevated platforms, pictured here in 2019. The Broadway Junction area, which lies at the nexus of three communities—Bushwick, Ocean-Hill, Brownsville, and East New York—has been slated to receive nearly $1 billion in public and private investment. The public investment has the potential to be transformative in

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