A new “innovation district” tests local democracy in a divided Brooklyn community.
POV “Emergent City” airs Monday, August 18 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.
Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself. Co-produced with ITVS