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How to Recapture Urban Industry

NEW YORK CITY-Let’s not throw in the towel on our vanishing urban industrial spaces just yet.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on August 19, 2011

One of the saddest things about my daily commute to New York City from New Jersey (besides the 90-minute plus travel time) are some of the sights I see everyday from the bus window. As I cross over the Pulaski Skyway, I notice the scores of abandoned factories, shuttered stores and former manufacturing sites that litter the landscape from Newark to Hoboken.

The most common way for policy-makers and planners to handle this problem is to rezone manufacturing areas to allow commercial mixed-use. You can see it in the conversion of the Stella D’Oro factory in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, the condo makeover of the Dixon-Ticonderoga plant in Jersey City and the rezoning of massive swaths in Manhattan’s Fur District and in Long Island City.

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