UPROSE is a multiracial grassroots group that for years has advocated turning Brooklyn’s old industrial waterfront into a new hub for green jobs — without pricing residents out of the neighborhood. Now, the state of New York is matching $200 million in private-sector investment to transform the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a wind turbine assembly and maintenance plant supporting over 1,000 local clean-energy jobs.
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