If this is the time of year that your fancy turns to beach volleyball, you’re in luck, as the three courts on Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park, will open this Saturday, May 28. If you don’t know a serve from a spike, there are still new things to enjoy. According to the Park’s website, in […]
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Locals Call for Total Ban on Tourist Helos Over Brooklyn Heights
A total ban on tourist helicopter flights over New York City is the only way to resolve the noise and safety issues these flights cause, according to elected officials and local residents who gathered at Pier 6 on a gloomy, drizzly (and therefore blessedly chopper-free) afternoon. Previous attempts to restrict flight paths so as to […]
Reminders: Stop the Chop Rally and E-Waste Recycling
There will be a rally to demand an end to tourist helicopter flights from the Downtown Heliport today at 1:00 p.m. at Pier 6, foot of Atlantic Avenue, rain or shine. Local elected officials will be there. E-waste recycling continues today at First Unitarian Church, 121 Pierrepont Street (corner of Monroe Place), from noon to […]
Rally Against Chopper Noise at Pier 6 Sunday
There will be a rally on Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park, this Sunday, May 15, starting at 1:00 p.m., to demand an end to all non-essential (i.e. tourist) helicopter flights from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport. Local elected officials, including Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, State Senators Daniel Squadron and Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and City Council […]
Another Volunteer Opportunity: Count Traffic, Advance the Greenway
Brooklyn Bridge Park is asking for volunteers to do one hour shifts this Thursday, May 12 and Saturday, May 14, counting bikers, runners and pedestrians using the path that links Pier 1 to Pier 6, which will eventually be part of a much longer path connecting the waterfront from Greenpoint to Sunset Park, the “Greenway.” […]
Councilmember Petitions for Safe Access to Pier 6
Read about it on Cobble Hill Blog.
Hearing on Alternatives to Housing Yields Diverse Responses; What is a “Perched Wetland”?
About fifty people showed up at St. Francis College yesterday evening to speak (and a number of others showed up to listen) about the draft report issued by Bay Area Economics, the consultants hired by the Brooklyn Bridge Park board to evaluate alternatives to luxury housing and a hotel as sources of revenue to defray […]
Park Board Meets, Receives Draft Report on Housing Alternatives
The board of directors of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation met today at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The principal item on the agenda was receipt of the draft report of Bay Area Economics, the consultant hired by the Corporation to study alternatives to luxury housing as sources of revenue to […]
Expanded Ferry Service to Fulton Landing and Pier 6 to Start in June
Starting this June, there will be year-round, every day ferry service connecting Fulton Landing, at the foot of Old Fulton Street, and other points in Brooklyn and Queens, with downtown and midtown Manhattan. During the summer this service will be extended to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6, near the foot of Atlantic Avenue.
Rats at Brooklyn Bridge Park? Myer: “Absolutely not.”
News that the City has asked for bids to provide pest control services at Brooklyn Bridge Park, along with reports by some local residents of having seen rats near the playground at Pier 6, has aroused some concern. New York Post: Is there a rat problem at Brooklyn Bridge Park? “Absolutely not,” said Regina Myer, […]
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