BrooklynPaper – By Kirstyn Brendlen | Published July 14, 2025

The city will stop operations at a controversial concrete recycling facility in the Columbia Waterfront District next month and close the plant altogether by the end of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.

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Council Member Shahana Hanif, who helped spearhead the fight to close the facility, said the decision was a “testament to the power of local organizing.”

“The facility’s closure will help improve air quality, reduce truck traffic, and ease noise pollution in an area that has borne environmental burdens for far too long,” she said in a statement. “It’s particularly important that we won this outcome outside the context of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Vision Plan proposal. The health of local residents never should have been used as a bargaining chip.”

City Hall said the recycling facility helped construct sidewalk extensions, pedestrian and bus boarding island, and more; and said DOT will “accommodate” the end of operations on Columbia Street “while continuing its concrete construction efforts.”

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