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NYguy

Sep 19, 2013, 5:52 PM

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=6855

Unveiled> Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6
Michael Van Valkenburgh and Bjarke Ingels team up for a soaring new landscape design

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Branden Klayko
9.18.2013

At the East River terminus of Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn-based Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has already transformed 1.6 acres of Pier 6 into a whimsical playscape of rocky crags and spraying water interspersed by lush plantings. This landscape forms the southern anchor for the wildly-popular 86-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP). Now Van Valkenburgh is teaming up with Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, to complete the landscape and add an architectural statement at the pier.

Van Valkenburgh’s new landscape is intended to be more pastoral and less programmed than the first half of the pier, building on the most successful elements of the rest of the park. “We wanted a large lawn at the end of the pier. We learned from the success of Pier 1 that people like to gather,” Regina Myer, president of Brooklyn Bridge Park, told AN. Surrounded by a wide promenade at its perimeter, the design for Pier 6 includes a broad lawn for large events connected to land by a green swath flanked by densely planted beds that act as acoustical barriers.

At one corner, a stepped, triangular platform forms a 17-foot-tall wooden curl—dubbed the Mantaray—that functions as a sheltered seating area and provides a dramatic vantage point to view the Manhattan skyline. “The Mantaray is a small public platform at the end of the pier—equally accessible above and below,” Ingels said in a statement. “Its namesake organic slopes and curves have been shaped by concerns for accessibility, safety, shelter, structure—like a manmade reef evolved to accommodate human life.”

The platform’s shape is intended to add to the vertical topography of the pier. “We tasked BIG with designing a pavilion-like structure that could provide shade and offer the ability to walk above,” Myer said. “This is a really unique moment at the end of Pier 6. The southern-most pier is very flat and has very different vantage points than the rest of the park.”

The 6,000-square-foot Mantaray will be fully ADA accessible and clad in timber slabs chosen to withstand the harsh waterfront elements and to create a sense of texture and color. Because of the structure’s weight, Myer said some additional structural support will be required to build the viewing platform.

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Sep 19, 2013, 8:17 PM

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Sep 22, 2013, 3:12 PM

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Oct 1, 2013, 12:38 AM

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Hypothalamus

Feb 16, 2014, 10:20 PM

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Eco-friendly eye candy: Pierhouse at Brooklyn Bridge Park (http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2014/02/pierhouse-brooklyn-eco-eye-candy.html)
FEBRUARY 15, 2014

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Renderings: Marvel Architects

Construction is moving along at Pierhouse at Brooklyn Bridge Park, an artfully sprawling condo-hotel complex by Toll Brothers City Living and Starwood Capital.

The project at 60 Furman Street is expected to generate $3.3 million in revenues for the park’s anticipated $16.1 million annual maintenance budget, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

The 108-unit condominium building designed by Marvel Architects offers one- to five-bedroom apartments priced from $1.5 million to $11 million. Most of the townhouse-style residences will be duplexes with 18-foot windows, and 80 percent of the units have terraces. The floors are made of reclaimed hardwood pine, while the kitchens feature solid walnut cabinetry, marble countertops and Gaggenau appliances. The master bathrooms have soaking tubs and marble floors and walls.

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Hypothalamus

Feb 25, 2014, 6:03 PM

As of February 25th, 2014...
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Hypothalamus

Feb 25, 2014, 10:25 PM

Brownstoner:

Brooklyn Bridge Park Releases Details on Pier 2, Opening This Spring (http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/02/brooklyn-bridge-park-releases-details-on-pier-2-opening-this-spring/)
by Rebecca 02/25/14 11:30am

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 in on track to wrap up construction in the spring, and the finished product will feature a roller rink, several sports courts, workout area and green space. Community Board Two released all the details about the planned five acres for recreation activities in an email yesterday.

Pier 2 will include five full-size basketball courts, two of which will be covered by the pier roof, the roller rink, six handball courts, three shuffleboard courts, two bocce courts, a half acre of turf and a workout area equipped with state of the art fitness equipment. There will also be 12 swings of varying sizes, restrooms, picnic tables, lockers and skate rentals. BBP will begin taking permit applications for use of the sports courts on April 1.

aquablue

Feb 27, 2014, 5:50 AM

If there is something that ought to be changed, it's burying that diesel fume belching highway called the BQE. I wouldn't want to be a resident of that building. If you walk on the promenade you can smell it i think.

Hypothalamus

Feb 28, 2014, 11:26 PM

I feel like these threads should be merged... no? Essentially, the latter thread is a sub-development of the entire Brooklyn Bridge Park redevelopment, if I'm understanding correctly. I've posted updates on the buildings in the larger, older thread.

Merge...
NEW YORK | Brooklyn Bridge Park Hotel and Condos (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=195519)

with...
NEW YORK | Brooklyn Bridge Park (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=159070)

Hypothalamus

Mar 26, 2014, 10:10 PM

As of March 24th, 2014...

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Hypothalamus

Apr 16, 2014, 2:15 AM

As of April 13th, 2014...
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Hypothalamus

Apr 23, 2014, 6:59 PM

Curbed NY:

Pierhouse Starts to Take Shape Beside Brooklyn Bridge Park (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/23/pierhouse_starts_to_take_shape_beside_brooklyn_bridge_park.php)
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Hypothalamus

Apr 28, 2014, 6:53 PM

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Brooklyn Bridge Park's Newest Sections Almost Ready to Open (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/28/brooklyn_bridge_parks_newest_sections_almost_ready_to_open.php)
Monday, April 28, 2014, by Jessica Dailey

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The Pier 4 beach and greenway.

The continuously under-construction Brooklyn Bridge Park is almost ready to open two new sections designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Last fall, a greenway on the Pier 2 and 3 uplands finally connected all the pieces of the park, and now the pathway will be joined by several grassy lawns, the Pier 4 beach, and they action-packed Pier 2, which holds five acres of sports courts and a waterfront promenade. The new spaces should open by the end of May, but last week, Open House New York hosted a (rainy) sneak peek tour.

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Looking south across the Pier 4 beach, toward One Brooklyn Bridge Park and Pier 5.

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More photos @ CurbedNY (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/28/brooklyn_bridge_parks_newest_sections_almost_ready_to_open.php)

Hypothalamus

May 4, 2014, 3:33 PM

As of May 4th, 2014...

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May 8, 2014, 3:53 AM

My pictures from today.

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Hypothalamus

Jun 8, 2014, 8:38 PM

As of June 2nd, 2014...
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phillyskyline

Jun 8, 2014, 9:37 PM

This is one of the most amazing projects I have seen, nice to see things coming to fruition.

NYguy

Jul 10, 2014, 8:15 PM

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7434

Affording the Waterfront
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issues RFP for affordable housing at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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Henry Melcher
7.09.2014

As under-construction condominiums on the north side of Brooklyn Bridge Park shatter borough sales records, affordable units are slated to bookend the other end of the 85-acre site. The park has issued an RFP for two new towers at the south end of the park. Nearly a third of this new development is expected to include affordable apartments. The towers—one 16 stories and the other twice that size—would rise on currently vacant sites adjacent the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

Given the mayor’s plan to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade, this news is not surprising in its own right. The inclusion of affordable housing at Brooklyn Bridge Park, though, marks a significant turn in the park’s history, and, possibly, its future.

The park was created as a public-private partnership with the city and state fronting money for construction, and property taxes from development at the park covering the upkeep—about $16 million a year. The 550,000-square-foot, Marvel Architects–designed condo and hotel project currently rising at the park is a key part of that plan.

Some local groups have opposed residential development at the park, claiming that it would block views of Manhattan and turn the public space into a backyard for the wealthy. But since the first phase of the park opened in 2010 it has been wildly popular with the public, and the planned towers at the site will likely do little to change that. In many ways, the fact that there is any green space at the site at all is a victory. When the park was being planned, the Port Authority proposed using the piers for high-rise development and parking lots.

The two new towers proposed under the de Blasio administration are also receiving their fair share of backlash, but not just for their size. Opponents point out that affordable units would provide significantly less revenue for the park, if any revenue at all. This has noticeably put community groups on the awkward side of opposing affordable housing in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city.

Creating new affordable housing and continuing to provide funds for the park is not a zero-sum game for mayor de Blasio. A spokesperson for his administration told the Wall Street Journal, “We can secure the necessary funding to maintain this world-class park while simultaneously providing an affordable housing component to ensure the community actually represents Brooklyn.”

While this plan is in its early stages, the reception it has already received foreshadows the many development debates to come. As mayor de Blasio sets out to build 80,000 new affordable units over the next decade, he will certainly get pushback from local groups about the size, location, and design of new projects.

This is nothing new—development will always have its detractors, and that is not always a bad thing. But in de Blasio’s New York, opposing new development will increasingly mean opposing new affordable housing. It is a complicated and thorny debate and one that is about to play-out all across the city.

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chris08876

Jul 18, 2014, 5:12 PM

These neighbors need to be :dead:. They really are afraid of more people living near them. Typical NIMBY's. Always with the environmental studies. :koko:
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Neighbors Sue Over Mayor’s Plan for Affordable Housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park

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A judge today will hear a motion to block the city from selecting a developer to build housing towers on two remaining empty lots on Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Neighbors are suing the Brooklyn Bridge Park corporation to require them to perform a new environmental impact study to replace the one that was done in 2005, reported The Wall Street Journal.

Residents and pols have been requesting a reduction in the height and size of the 16-story and 31-story towers for years, whose revenues will pay for the park. But de Blasio changed the plan to include 30 percent affordable housing. Neighbors and elected officials have said they would rather see no housing or less housing in this spot. :facepalm:

“The suit also said the original plans required that housing be developed only if it was needed to pay for the park,” said the story.

State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Joan Millman and City Council Members Steve Levin and Brad Lander sent a letter in June requesting a public meeting to discuss alternatives to the plan but have had no response from the city, said a separate story in The New York Daily News.

“This is a bad plan,” Squadron told the paper. “It’s frustrating that in addition to a plan that doesn’t make a lot of sense, they’re unwilling to even engage the public.” After the story was published, a park spokeswoman said the meeting is in the planning process and will take place in August.
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Submariner

Jul 18, 2014, 5:38 PM

RobEss

Jul 18, 2014, 9:08 PM

I'm curious as to why they need a height reduction? What quantifiable, legitimate reasons do they have? (Yes, that's a rhetorical question)

The 30% affordable housing requirement is rubbish as always. Affordable housing should be located in less expensive areas, not on prime waterfront land, unless lower Manhattan views and top tier appliances are a civil right now.

I don't know which group is worse, the insufferable NIMBY crowd or the economics challenged affordable housing folk.

Makes sense to me - most developers will be loathe to put up any actual affordable housing if the could instead build market rate, no matter the location of the lot. So, how do you get them to house the coming masses when every space is at a premium? Require them to build affordable housing in exchange for cooperation on the mayors behalf!

Remember, folks: The free market will not build an affordable city if it doesn't have to.

jamesinclair

Jul 21, 2014, 2:15 AM

Design-mind

Jul 23, 2014, 2:40 AM

From my visit to NYC this week. A few updates of the Pierhouse project.

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Perklol

Aug 5, 2014, 2:51 AM

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The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge Park

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When city officials said they were ready to solicit requests for proposals to develop two parcels of land north of Atlantic Avenue and directly south of the building, they altered a 2006 plan so that it would include affordable housing, for moderate- to middle-income residents. Some condo owners reacted with unfiltered fury.

The messages expressed outrage over how the two new buildings would increase crowds in the park and cramp the already oversubscribed local public school, P.S. 8. Other residents were angry that a 31-story tower would block their views. When some people intimated that affordable housing could bring down property values, the debate took a tone that was offensive to Nina Lorez Collins, a writer and former literary agent.

“It felt very Nimby, like ‘We don’t want poor people in the backyard,’ ” she said recently.

“After two months of those comments, I sent out an email to everyone. I said, ‘You are making me ashamed to be your neighbor, please stop.’ ”

The tone of the posts softened, but the uproar has not ended.

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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation is the nonprofit entity that operates and oversees construction at the park, with a board of directors chosen by the city and the state. In the spring, as the last two sites scheduled for development, both on Pier 6, were about to go up for bidding, it announced that because real estate values had soared along with park use, the park was in better financial shape than projected. Fewer market-rate units could be built, and some of the excess funds could be used to start paying to repair the 12,000 wooden pilings under the piers, a long-term goal.

The new mayor saw an opportunity to chip away at his administration’s goal of adding 200,000 units of affordable housing and said 30 percent of the units in the new buildings would be set aside for lower-income tenants.

“For us, that makes a lot of sense,” Regina Myer, the president of the park corporation, said. “It has the ability to look more like the community that we’re in.”

If housing in the park was required to produce revenue, some neighborhood residents wondered, how could the city add units that would not contribute money?

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“People need to get out of this paradigm,” Alicia Glen, the deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said in an interview. “These are two legitimate public policy objectives we can achieve here. We are able to maintain this park and advance the public good.”

But just as Mr. de Blasio seized an opportunity, so did opponents of his plan. A group called the People for Green Space Foundation (including several Save Pier 6 participants) formed to sue the park corporation last month.

A judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting park officials from taking any action until the court could determine whether a new environmental impact study — replacing one from 2005 — was required.

The next hearing is in September.

“The intent is to have a supplemental environmental impact study,” said Frank Carone, a lawyer for People for Green Space.

“I’ve told my clients that we’re not bringing litigation to stop development but to do it more carefully.”

Mr. Carone, by the way, successfully argued in May for the State University of New York to sell Long Island College Hospital, just blocks from the park, to private developers. That also united the community — in rage, against the closing of the hospital.

Perklol

Aug 5, 2014, 5:03 AM

They should probably build affordable housing elsewhere and upzone that one spot to get people interested to build there. I think 8th avenue between 40-58th streets would be the right area.

The Rui Hotel is a disappointment considering it's right in the heart of Times Square and near multiple subway lines. If a parcel is upzoned, then the below-market rate renters won't live so far away from Manhattan Island. Everyone would be a winner.

Submariner

Aug 5, 2014, 1:27 PM

Yes lets locate all the affordable housing somewhere far away. We can give it a cool name, like " Le Ghetto"

People don't deserve to live in desirable areas. They are free to earn enough money to do so.

The lack of total affordable housing coupled with poor education do far more damage to lower income folk than not being able to live in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Perklol

Sep 2, 2014, 4:54 PM

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/re...s&emc=rss&_r=1

Living in the Mix
Affordable Housing in New York’s Luxury Buildings

By JULIE SATOWAUG. 29, 2014

Like most New Yorkers who live in close quarters, tenants in mixed-income buildings rarely socialize beyond a polite nod of the head or a brief wave. And while they may live in the same neighborhood, they tend to patronize different stores — Mr. Omar, for example, does his food shopping at Western Beef, a grocery store on West 16th, where prices are a far cry from the $5 iced coffees at the Chelsea Market across the street.

Yet while they may not overlap often, there is occasional friction between the two groups. At the Westminster, for example, Mr. Amico said he has heard some grumbling about the tenants hanging out in the lobby, and notices have been posted reminding residents of proper lobby etiquette, although a spokeswoman for the building’s owner, the Related Companies, said she knew of no complaints.

For Mr. Deese, who is African-American and stands at an imposing 6-foot-1, there have been some uncomfortable moments. He and a friend were walking out of Mr. Deese’s apartment and down the hallway when a white neighbor, seeing them approach, “slammed her front door, locking all the locks,” he said. “It was ridiculous, because the door locks automatically when you close it, so no one ever uses the extra locks.”

Mr. Omar, who only just moved into the AVA High Line, is still a bit self-conscious of his status. “If there was a building-wide social event, like drinks or something, I would go, but I would want to bring a friend,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to show up and stand out, like, ‘Oh, there goes the low-income guy.’ ”

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Matt Amico is a market-rate tenant of the Westminster, a mixed-income building on West 20th Street. If sharing space with people who have won a housing lottery isn’t O.K. with you, he says, “then you won’t go there.” Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times

NYguy

May 9, 2016, 4:58 PM

Another great NYC park that continues to progress...

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chris08876

Jan 21, 2017, 6:12 PM

New renderings and photos show Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 uplands are almost complete

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You won’t need to see more than a few renderings and photos of new park space slated for Brooklyn Bridge Park to feel ready for summertime. First posted by Curbed from the park’s landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, renderings show the final design for one of the last undeveloped sections of the park between Montague and Joralemon streets. Known as the Pier 5 uplands, the hilly green space will be comprised of a stepped lawn, shaded grove, waterfront seating and new entrance off Joralemon Street. A sound-dampening berm will reduce noise from the nearby roadways. And it’s all on track to wrap construction right before summer.

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Two new buildings are also a part of the uplands work. There will be a boathouse to host the park’s free community programs, as well as a larger operational facility that includes a horticulture lab. (Also, more public restrooms.) The stretch of Furman Street, which runs below the BQE, will be improved for guests to enter the buildings or the park.

A small bridge will connect the uplands to the “picnic peninsula” below, which was designed as a more active space within Pier 5. Besides outdoor grills and seating, this area has a playground and soccer fields.

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NYguy

Jun 5, 2017, 4:14 PM

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chris08876

Jan 25, 2018, 1:40 PM

New Close-Up Revealed For 28-Story “Quay Tower” Coming To Brooklyn Bridge Park

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A new close-up rendering has been revealed of the Brooklyn Bridge Park condominium project, now officially known as Quay Tower. The 28-story building will be located at the southern end of Pier 6, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, along the East River. The project, designed by ODA Architecture’s Eran Chen, will offer residents permanently unobstructed views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor, East River, as well as the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

The building is being developed through a joint venture between RAL Companies, Oliver’s Realty Group, and Vanke US. The site is the former home of the Brooklyn Heights Library, which was demolished in April of last year to make way for the project.

The tower will offer up a total of 126 residential units as well as two retail spaces, and a STEM lab operated by the City’s Department of Education.

The condominiums will range from two to five bedrooms and are tailored towards the side of spacious luxury. Prices are expected to start around $1.9 million for the smallest two-bedroom configurations, and range all the way up to $5.5 million for the most spacious five-bedroom residences.
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chris08876

Apr 11, 2018, 6:06 PM

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 housing makes its mark on the skyline

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It’s been a busy year at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 uplands. The two residential towers that began to rise in the park nearly a year ago are now fixtures on the skyline—and if you haven’t seen that for yourself, new photos of the buildings from construction site chronicler Field Condition show just how far the projects have come.

The shorter of the two developments, the mixed-income building at 15 Bridge Park Drive, topped out earlier this year at 15 stories. The taller—and more contentious—of the two buildings, at 50 Bridge Park Drive, has now reached the 20th of its 28 floors and is scheduled to top out later this spring.

The facade of no. 15 has been installed up to the third floor on some parts of the building. The mixed-income building will hold 100 affordable apartments and 40 market rate apartments, and is expected to open in the spring of 2019.

The development at 50 Bridge Park Drive, now called Quay Tower, had been the focus of much litigation by the Brooklyn Heights Association, who maintained that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation was in violation of the initial agreement to build as little housing in the park as necessary. BBPC maintained it needed the funds the additional housing at Pier 6 would provide to keep up the timber piles supporting the East River pier, which are being “devoured by wood eating crustaceans.”

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May 13, 2018, 7:36 PM

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Oct 10, 2018, 9:32 PM

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NYguy

May 22, 2020, 2:19 AM

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City backs plan to create plaza by linking Brooklyn Bridge parks

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By Nolan Hicks
May 20, 2020

A park grows in Brooklyn!

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission signed off this week on plans to link the Brooklyn Bridge’s two waterfront parks together with a new plaza and green space that would sit under the iconic span.

It’s the final piece of a decade-plus long push to revitalize the once-industrial waterfront of Gotham’s biggest borough, which was largely filled with dilapidated warehouses and parking lots until its transformation into park space.

The new $8 million Brooklyn Bridge Plaza will allow New Yorkers to easily walk from the northern portion of the waterfront park — home to the famed Jane’s Carousel — under the bridge to Pier 1, which sits to the immediate southwest.

It will include new benches and green space as well, offering visitors new places to pause and relax in the area, which is currently fenced off.

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