The cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine is a sketch of a lively basketball game being played on the Pier Two courts in Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the lower Manhattan skyline in the background. As Françoise Mouly reports, it was made by Brooklyn Heights resident Jorge Colombo, using his iPad. Colombo is quoted as calling the park “one of my favorite places to hang out.”

Heights Resident Puts Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 on New Yorker Cover
By Claude Scales on May 23, 2017 11:32 pm in 11201, Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Visual Arts
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