Close Up on the Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Village Voice’s neighborhood of the week is the Brooklyn Navy Yard which the paper defines as extending to the BQE–which for much of the area runs above Park Avenue. Here’s what the writer has to say about the hard-to-pin-down nabe:

At present, there’s both utter vacancy and the height of gentrification, and not even a bodega in between. One worker hauling lumber out of a former factory all but laughs at the idea of calling this a neighborhood. Meanwhile, Wonka-style, a chocolate factory next door holds a beehive of renovated lofts. Who needs a frontier population of artists anymore to popularize a location, when you’ve got an empty warehouse? Dozens of working professionals prowl the halls of the Chocolate Factory, at least one with a mutt.

Close-Up on the Navy Yard [Village Voice]