Squibb Park Bridge Needs Repairs – Will Re-Open In 2-3 Weeks

By on September 8, 2014 3:45 pm in brooklyn bridge park

Many BHB readers have asked about Squibb Park Bridge, which has been closed – ostensibly due to the construction of the Pierhouse – for the last few weeks. Now comes word from Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Belinda Cape that there’s another issue as well:

Warping of the bridge is expected from time to time due to use and temp fluctuations and requires the re-adjustment of cable tensions. During the most recent adjustments last month, our bridge engineers registered greater movement than usual at one of the spans. The bridge was closed in order to conduct more intensive monitoring, as well as find the cause for this movement.

We expect necessary adjustments to be made and the bridge to reopen in the next 2-3 weeks.

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  • Monty

    That’s my guess, but that’s a lame reason. Worried about inconveniencing tourists over the health of our children?

  • MonroeOrange

    Ill repeat what i said when this bridge was built and was lambasted for it on this blog. This bridge was the biggest scam ever concocted. 5 million dollars to build a bridge that was not needed and 520 days later is closed for repairs. So if anyone is counting, this bridge cost $9k per day for the duration that it was open, and is now closed for repairs for what…another couple mil? no accountability of course.

    And Marsha…wait the library is closing? you got to be kidding, first im hearing about it.

  • marshasrimler

    It is about the use of public funds

  • Eddyde

    I walked by this morning, there is no gate at the bridge entrance, so the entire park must be closed. I also noticed there is no playground apparatus in Squibb park, so I don’t think its a big deal its closed.

  • Phormyka
  • David on Middagh

    Maybe they skip rope and play dodge ball.

  • GHB

    Please don’t bannate her. She amuses me so!

  • Eddyde

    Dodge ball, is that even legal anymore?

  • Jorale-man

    I will say that the bridge has been nice for runners. Going down Squib Hill can be a little tough on the knees and you have to dodge a lot of the Jehovah’s Witnesses walking hand-in-hand to work. But it’s going to lose a lot of its open-air appeal once the condos are built around it. Should be interesting to see how this all plays out.

  • cindy s

    Well, at this point the NY Attorney
    general AND the US Attorney’s
    offices should open investigations
    if any client of ours came in with
    Something like this I’d tell him to
    Go directly to the AG and the US
    Atty. ALL this smacks of influence
    Peddling and malfeasance.

  • Someone

    As someone who has walked the bridge almost daily since it opened I think the issue has more been that starting early this summer a lot of people tested how far they could bounce the bridge up and down and swinging it sideways. I mean excessively. One could literally watch how to bridge started to slant.

    That wasn’t anything I had seen people doing before.

  • Mary

    Most school yards in NYC do not have a lot of built-in playground equipment. The point of recess is, get the kids outside and get ’em moving.

  • Andrew Porter

    Wonder if it will have that High-Line problem: people in the hotel windows engaged in public sex acts…

  • GHB

    I thought that was the reason for gym class. I thought recess was for snacks and joints.

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    You are so smart. Show us how humble you are again please.

  • Jorale-man

    We shall see…BBP could get a lot livelier…

  • cindy s

    So let’s sum this up, millions for a
    Dysfunctional design, but our “lead-
    Ing lights” can’t find funds for more
    Police, Fire, EMS or hospitals when
    We’re Increasing the use/population
    of an area…does anyone wonder why
    I and my family are Totally EXASPER-
    ATED at the way this area and City
    is run…..

  • marshasrimler

    I agree. but do not forget libraries please

  • Boerum Bill

    Now watch vandalism and thuggery drop in the heights thusly.

  • Doug Biviano

    At the time the multi-million dollar price tag for the bridge came in, I actually proposed a graded switchback walk from the south side of Squibb Park then a cross walk to cross Furman, could have been made safe to cross. Would have been a fraction of the cost and very little maintenance. In the end, the bridge is convenient getting down with the kids just question the complex design. A simple steel beam bridge would have been less expensive with little maintenance. If they didn’t want to have to paint it, they could have used “weathering steel” like Barclays Center. In General, over the years, I have called out the complexity of the design of the Park (driving up construction and maintenance costs) instead of having a simple useable park with more area for people. That stupid berm is a great example of the design features that I blasted before it was built.

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    Glad someone here knows what they are talking about.

  • cindy s

    Perhaps I have in legal too long,
    But when bad use of public funds
    Does NOT result in a credible
    Action by the AG or some kind
    of major RJI…its all hot air..just
    Complaining about bad public
    Policy adds up to zero. Unless
    There’s a credible legal action
    Attached or an indictment re-
    sults….hot air equals zero.

  • Doug Biviano

    Hear hear

  • David G.
  • clarknt67

    Wasn’t the bridge built to placate homeowners on Jorealemon Street who whined they were the only access point?

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