According to the Daily News, Brooklyn Brewery President Steve Hindy is talking about relocating his Williamsburg brewery to Red Hook — where there would be enough room for a beer garden and space for distributor Phoenix beverages, which is now based in Long Island City. “They believe that other beverage distributors in New York would [also] be interested in receiving their products from Europe through the Brooklyn port,” Hindy said. But this move is reliant on a pact which would tranfer control of Red Hook’s piers 7 through 12 from the Port Authority to the city Economic Development Corp…

The pact could go into effect this year, but American Stevdoring, which currently operates a cargo port there, isn’t happy about it. American Stevedoring employs 623 full-time workers, but their lease ends March 31. Their spokesperson contends that the proposed development would slash that number to fewer than 50, but the Daily News reports, “a spokesman for the city Economic Development Corp. scoffed at the estimate, saying the project would create 1,600 longshoremen, stevedoring and warehouse jobs. However, it was unclear how many of those jobs would be full-time.”
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