Brooklyn Park approved.The board of directors of Empire State Development Corp. has given final approval to the general project plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park The future Brooklyn Bridge Park will be the first major new park development in Brooklyn since Prospect Park was built 135 years ago. It will stretch 1.3 miles along the East River from Atlantic Avenue to just north of the Manhattan Bridge. . The proposed 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park will stretch approximately 1.3 miles along the East River from Atlantic Avenue The following streets in the United States are named Atlantic Avenue:
The approval means that Brooklyn Bridge Park will enter the final stages of design and commence construction in 2007. Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, the first section of the park to be completed, will open in 2009. The Park, a collaboration between the State of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and the City of New York, will replace abandoned piers, parking lots and storage sheds to serve as public space in one of the most majestic locations in New York Harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey". . It will one of the most significant public investments in the creation of a park outside of Manhattan in more than a hundred years. When fully completed in 2012, the park will offer rolling hills, civic plazas, a bicycle path, restored marshland, 2 large playing fields for soccer, field hockey, softball, cricket and football, six basketball courts, 10 handball handball Any of a variety games in which a small rubber ball is struck against a wall with the hand or fist. It can be played in a three- or four-walled court or against a single wall by two or four players (in singles or doubles games, respectively). courts, two volleyball courts, an in-line hockey rink, three tennis courts, three playgrounds and open lawns for lounging. It will also provide unparalleled waterfront access, with four miles of canals, boardwalks and floating walkways that will wind around the piers. A total of 12 acres of safe paddling waters will be created for kayaks, rowboats and other water sports water sports Urophilia, see there , and the park will include fishing piers and a marina. In response to public input and additional design work, the residential development planned for the uplands of Pier 6 has been modified from the previous proposal. This entrance to the park will now contain almost one acre of additional open space. The park plan now contains a maximum of 1,240 units of housing, a maximum of 225 hotel rooms, 188,000 s/f of retail space, 138,000 s/f for restaurants, cafes and other eateries, 30,000 s/f of meeting space, 95,000 s/f of office space, 90,000 s/f of showroom space and 1,183 parking spaces. The design and construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park is made possible by funding committed by City and State. The park's estimated capital construction budget is $130 million. |
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