Industrial jobs are “very important” to the city’s future, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday as he and other officials broke ground for a 400,000- square-foot addition to the booming Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Nobody thinks of New York City as an industrial city, but 500,000 people work in industrial jobs in this city,” said Bloomberg.
“It is very important to our future – and we really do have a future in industrial jobs. Those kinds of jobs that require a high skill and being locally available, to be creative and very responsive are exactly the kind of industrial jobs we can have here.”
Navy Yard president Andrew Kimball said the 300-acre industrial park is operating at 99 percent capacity, with companies “literally banging down our door to come here.”
The expansion includes a 60,000-square-foot supermarket to serve residents of nearby Housing Authority projects.