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Roughly 6,000 new apartments are coming to the the banks of Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront District in Brooklyn through a rezoning fast-tracked by city officials earlier this week.

But that flood of new residents won’t be met with a flood of new mass transit options, much less a subway extension long sought by locals.

The area is one of Western Brooklyn’s most glaring transit deserts. There are no subway stops nearby, and the buses there slog along its cramped streets. The neighborhood’s NYC

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