Giving in to demands by local residents and elected officials, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has disclosed the names of the people who will decide which of the seven proposed hotel and residential complexes will be built next to Pier 1. The Brooklyn Paper: On Monday, park staff revealed the four members on the heretofore […]
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Harvest Festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday, October 22
The annual Harvest Festival, presented by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy in partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park will be held on Pier 6, near the foot of Atlantic Avenue, on Saturday, October 22, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. “This year’s Harvest Festival promises to be a wonderful event for families all over Brooklyn,” said […]
Squibb Park Bridge Design Modified for Accessibility
Modifications have been made to the design for the pedestrian bridge linking Squibb Park to Brooklyn Bridge Park, in order to make it comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. These modifications, which include modification of guardrails, installation of wall-mounted handrails on the ramp down from Columbia Heights to Squibb Park, bituminous concrete landings on […]
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 […]
St. Ann’s Gets “Conditional” Nod for Tobacco Warehouse
There was no surprise at this afternoon’s meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s board of directors. After a presentation by the Corporation’s president, Regina Myer, that duplicated the one she gave at the community meeting on Monday, and after her briefly summarizing the comments made at that meeting, which she described as being split […]
Squibb Playground to Brooklyn Bridge Park Footbridge Funded
After yesterday’s Tobacco Warehouse meeting, your correspondent asked BBPC president Regina Myer to confirm what was written in DumboNYC: that the pedestrian bridge to connect the Squibb Playground with Pier 1 of Brooklyn Bridge Park has been funded. She replied that it has. I asked if she knew when construction would begin. She said this […]
Tobacco Warehouse Meeting Marked by Controversy
Yesterday evening’s community meeting at Borough Hall concerning the proposals for adaptive use of the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO exposed a rift between arts organizations, which favor allowing such use, and community activists, who mostly want to keep the structure as is. It began with a presentation by Regina Myer, President of the Brooklyn Bridge […]
Tobacco Warehouse Shell Game?
The Tobacco Warehouse, that picturesque, roofless shell of a 19th century structure that stands on the west side of Water Street, near the Dock Street intersection, in DUMBO, has become the latest point of contention in the battle over whether the costs of operating and maintaining Brooklyn Bridge Park should be defrayed in part by […]
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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