Plan approved to transform Red Hook, Columbia Street Waterfront into new neighborhood

The sixth time’s the charm.

A panel of local leaders voted Monday to approve a controversial plan to turn a 122-acre stretch of industrial waterfront around the Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a brand-new residential neighborhood following months of delays. The task force greenlit the plan after significant modifications to the proposal and five previous vote postponements because it lacked the necessary support to advance .

The vote allows the city’s economic development authority to proceed with a vision to build 6,000 new apartments along the shore of Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront District while bypassing the city’s typical land-use process through what’s known as a “general project plan.” The broken affordable-housing promises of another such plan at Atlantic Yards hav