If you take the 2, 3, or 4 train to the end of the line at New Lots Avenue in East New York, you’ll pass through a grid of industrial warehouses before Fountain Avenue bends along Betts Creek into Shirley Chisholm State Park. Previously a landfill, the park now tops a hill that offers views over Jamaica Bay. On this journey, just before reaching Seaview Avenue, you’ll pass a 27-acre parcel that used to be the Brooklyn Development Center, which housed individuals with mental health issues. Today, it’s a construction site for Alafia, a new wellness-oriented resilient development realized as the largest component of New York State’s Vital Brooklyn
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