
25 Years in 25 Days (2000): The Rise of Brooklyn

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.
Also today: remembering Bush v Gore.
In 2000, workers at the Domino Sugar Factory on the Williamsburg waterfront went on strike. That empty building recently hosted a public art exhibit by Kara Walker and will soon be home to a new housing development. Marty Markowitz, former Brooklyn Borough President (2002-2013), State Senator (1978-2001), and now vice president of borough promotion and engagement at NYC & Co., reflects on the borough's transformation. Then, Steve Hindy, founder of the Brooklyn Brewery and the author of The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World's Favorite Drink (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of Bed Stuy and Crown Height's Brooklyn Movement Center, discuss the changes to the borough's economy and reputation.