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Brooklyn Bridge Park coming next month, developer promises

BY JOYCE SHELBY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 10:24 PM


Rendering of the view of Pier 1 in the planned Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Finally! After delays and ballooning costs dating back to the Pataki administration, construction at Brooklyn Bridge Park is slated to get underway next month.

That's the promise of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp.

"I'm sure we are starting this November - really sure," said BBPD President Regina Myer. "We actually have the money to build. This is a very important step."

Using state and city funds, the corporation awarded a $47 million contract last week to Skanska USA for the first phase of park construction. The money covers construction on Pier 1 and a new entrance to the park at Old Fulton St.

"Every park needs a great entrance," Myer said. "And there will be two wonderful viewing lawns with new topography to accentuate the views of the Brooklyn Bridge and the upper harbor."

Because the viewing lawns will be elevated, Myer said, new river steps will be built, paved with granite salvaged from the Roosevelt Island Bridge.

There will be about 1,300 feet of new promenade on the edge of Pier1, along with water gardens and a new playground for children.

The completed Pier 1 will add 9.5 new acres of park to the existing Empire Fulton Ferry State Park and the Main Street City Park, according to the corporation.

"Over the course of the next year, New Yorkers will see the unique transformation of a vacant pier and the development of a new landscape along the water's edge," Myer promised.

Construction is to be completed by the end of next year.

"We have a very aggressive construction schedule. We are pushing to work as hard as we can to get the public on site," she said. "Construction should go quickly."

At the Brooklyn Heights Association, Irene Janner said her group certainly hopes so.

"We're really looking forward to it," she said. "It looks like it's a go."



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