Brooklyn Wars

What should be a polite public meeting becomes a battleground over plans to redevelop the once proud Brooklyn Navy Yard. Local residents clamor for their own agenda in redeveloping 300 acres overlooking a sparkling downtown Manhattan, while developers argue and city officials cower. Erica Donato, still writing her PhD dissertation about changes in city neighborhoods, is not surprised at the meeting's anger, but she is shocked to witness the murder of a power broker that night on the Yard's condemned Admirals' Row.