NYC Thrives as an Unlikely Silicon Valley of Climate Technology

From the outside, the Brooklyn Army Terminal doesn’t look like much. The complex was once the nation’s biggest military supply base, sending millions of soldiers and countless tons of cargo off to World War II. Now it’s a sprawl of aging warehouses ringed by auto body shops and meat distributors, grim enough to have once stood in as a psychiatric hospital in the 2019 “Joker” movie.

But New York City officials envision the Army Terminal as a bustling campus full of entrepreneurs and researchers, any one of whom might invent the next high-capacity battery or develop a breakthrough climate modeling ...