In yesterday’s State of the City speech, Mayor Bloomberg had a few things to say about Brooklyn. In addition to specifically naming Bushwick and Bed Stuy as the focus of a new anti-poverty initiative, he also mentioned a couple of the biggest development projects in the borough:

In Brooklyn, construction workers will put shovels in the ground at Atlantic Yards, the most exciting housing, commercial, and sports development in Brooklyn’s history…We’ll fully open a new cruise ship terminal in Red Hook, which will become home to the Queen Mary II and 600 new jobs. Also, along the Brooklyn waterfront, the Port Authority will turn over Piers 1 through 5 and the City will contribute Pier 6 to the Brooklyn Bridge Development Corporation something the community has been dreaming about for 20 years!

State of the City Transcript [Gotham Gazette]