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The New York City Energy Corridor: From Rockaway to Wall Street



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The US-Mexico Energy Corridor could be a model for the New York Energy Corridor, attracting leading schools from around the country to create new and unique renewable energy platforms.

Rockaway could, and should, be placed into a national leadership position through the construction of the New York City Energy Corridor extending From Rockaway to Wall Street. This model is comparable to the United States – Mexico Energy Corridor, featuring the leading schools in the country working together to develop a first of its kind innovation park.

In collaborating with Rockaway residents, we can establish research and development centers with mechanisms to enrich the local economy without being intrusive to lifestyle in the area. Our hope would be to develop an economic development area to create substantial access to short and long-term research and development. Our sectors of R&D would include – but not be limited to – environmental protection, resource management, and environmental sustainability. We could build sustainability startups with sponsored research models to catalyze economic growth in the local Rockaway community. 

The proposed New York City Energy Corridor has the potential to become a legacy project for Rockaway with a significant, long-lasting impact on energy, water, and education in New York City. We believe turning a small section of Rockaway into a reduced-tax zone to promote research and development around sustainability could have significant effects on promoting new jobs and unique opportunities across all five boroughs. 

Along the ferry route to Sunset Park, our plan is to turn Industry City into the global capital of renewable energy education with a Campus 2.0, which would provide Bachelor’s degrees and exclusive work opportunities for local community residents. Our hope is students in Sunset Park can take the ferry to Rockaway to participate in hands-on research and development. We would look to build a foundation of Bachelor Degrees with blended-learning mechanisms to ensure the continued longitudinal progress of our students. 

The New York Energy Corridor would rely on ferry access to allow students and employees to easily travel between a proposed renewable energy campus in Sunset Park and R&D centers here in Rockaway.

Students from Rockaway and Sunset Park could be provided with hands-on workforce training opportunities to become green energy investors and practitioners. The ferry becomes a natural conduit to bringing together the R&D model established in Rockaway with the educational campus established in Sunset Park. 

We can invite partnerships to include the leading engineering consortiums in the United States and abroad to push forward on the ambitious nature of the project. The approach initiating partnerships with the private sector could drive value to the Rockaway economy. 

Finally, I believe deregulating specific investment opportunities around R&D for Wall Street could pay significant value to investors including R&D, real estate, and established products. We should allow our capital to go to work for the problems of the 21st century and make smart investments in communities to allow for the modernization of alternative energy to lead our economic resurgence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos courtesy of Eddie Cullen

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