TONIGHT! Brooklyn Bridge Park is hosting “Journey to the Stars,” with the Amateur Astronomers Association. Join astronomers at the Pier 1 Promenade as they guide your eyes across the sky and the wonders of astronomy are revealed. Look for the Syfy telescopes there. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. (Photo: BBP/Etienne Frossard)
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Piece By Piece: Squibb Pedestrian Bridge Timber Arrives On-Site
While piers for the upcoming Squibb Pedestrian Bridge arrived on site and were being installed two weeks ago, now the Brooklyn Bridge Park website shares that the first timber pieces of the suspension bridge have arrived on-site for installation. Each of the two main spans is 122 feet in length, and composed of black locust […]
Brooklyn Bridge Park In A Magical Time-Lapse Vignette!
Fantastic fun! A tilt-shift film shot in Brooklyn by German filmmaker Joerg Daiber. Below the jump, check out locations in Brooklyn Bridge Park (heavily featured), Downtown, DUMBO, Brooklyn’s Main Public Library, Grand Army Plaza and Coney Island. Read details of the “making of” here.
Tonight! BBP’s Voter’s Choice ‘Movies With A View’ Finale Is…
The final movie in the Syfy “Movies With a View” series at Brooklyn Bridge Park, is tonight, Thursday, August 30, with DJs kicking things off at 6 p.m. at the Harbor View Lawn on Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The nominees for the public vote finale were: “Splendor in the Grass,” “Across the Universe,” […]
BBP Offers View of Squibb Park Bridge Progress
Following Mr. Karl’s video progress report Thursday on the Squibb Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Facebook page features its own pic sharing progress on the bridge, which will connect Brooklyn Heights to BBP: “Check out the first bridge pier being installed at the uplands of Pier 1. Looking forward to watching as Squibb Bridge is […]
The First Notion Of Brooklyn Bridge Park… In 1988
Ever wondered how the notion of building a park along the Brooklyn Heights waterfront came to pass? Henrik Korgius, Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and BHB hero, offers details of its launch, beginning in 1988. He writes, “Brooklyn Bridge Park is a very different place since the first ‘American Landscape’ plan in the form […]
Movies With A View: ‘Unforgiven’ This Thursday
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s 13th-annual weekly summer series “Syfy’s Movies With A View” is sadly winding down, with just one more flick following this Thursday’s, which will be a viewer’s choice. On August 23, join the masses on the Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn for “Unforgiven,” which screens at sunset. Beginning at 6 p.m., DJ Emch […]
Syfy’s Movies With A View: ‘Barefoot In The Park’ Screens Thursday
Syfy’s “Movies With A View” will feature the Robert Redford and Jane Fonda G-rated comedy “Barefoot In The Park” tomorrow night, Thursday August 9… with only three more films left in the 13th-annual summer series. The accompanying short film is “Love Competition by Brent Hoff, with music from DJ Still Life. The event takes place […]
Totally Meta: Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Intro Wet Hot American Summer at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Tonight’s Movie with a View at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 is the 2001 opus (set in 1981) Wet Hot American Summer. Coincidentally, 5 of the stars of that film – Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Christopher Meloni, Michael Showalter and David Wain – are currently filming They Came Together in Brooklyn Heights. Rudd, Poehler, Showalter […]
BBP Condo-Hotel Architect Appears Mindful Of ‘Iconic’ Design Befitting Park Setting
It sounds as if the chief architect for the 200-room hotel and 159-condo project planned by Toll Brothers Inc. and Starwood Capital for Brooklyn Bridge Park is actually mindful of the fact that the controversial build-out is anything but your typical urban multi-use development. Architect Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel Architects tells the Wall Street […]
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