Reply UPROSE Executive Director Elizabeth Yeampierre speaks at a press conference calling for the state to invest $200 million to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into an offshore wind port and clean energy hub, Oct. 28, 2020. (Claudia Irizarry Aponte/THE CITY) This story was originally published on January 17 2021 by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning. A dream long nurtured by grassroots neighborhood activists approached reality last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an offshore wind turbine assembly hub in Brooklyn — part of a promised "green energy economy." Subscribe Sunset Park environmental justice advocates had pressed for more than two decades to revive a declining industrial waterfront while sowing the seeds for projects that would serve their largely Latino and immigrant community as well as the environment.