The New York City Department of City Planning defines brownfields as vacant or underutilized properties where contamination or perceived contamination has deterred investment and redevelopment.

With the ultimate goal of creating stratagies for the reuse and redevelopment of current brownfields New York State and New York City developed the Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) program to provided financial and technical assistance to community-based organizations and municipalities working towards the revitalization of affected areas.

In 2014, the New York City Department of City Planning for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation and the New York State Department of State issued a report funded through the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program:

Existing Conditions And Brownfields Analysis
Red Hook, Brooklyn, Final, September 2014.
(pdf)
Similarly funded by the BOA Program is a report was prepared for Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation (SBIDC) and the New York State Department of State:

Red Hook Brownfield Opportunity Area Study: Nomination Report. June 2021, Rev. January 2023 (pdf)