Brooklyn Park draft plans unveiled.Draft plans for a new 70-acre park on Brooklyn's East River shoreline were unveiled today by the 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. Development Corporation (BBPDC), the entity charged with the development of a master plan for the park. A final plan will be submitted to the City and 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 for review. To be known as Brooklyn Bridge Park, the park will cover 1.3 miles between Atlantic Avenue The following streets in the United States are named Atlantic Avenue:
According to the planners, a public-sector investment of approximately $130 million would be needed to leverage approximately $600 million in private funds needed to complete the park. The commercial uses within the park are expected to generate sufficient revenues to fund management and operations of the park. Those uses also are expected to generate some $15 million in annual tax revenues. Brooklyn Bridge Park will include pastoral green spaces, cultural facilities, a hotel, marketplaces, restaurants, indoor recreation centers, an education center and a marina. The draft master plan also calls for connecting the park to all of the neighborhoods that lie adjacent to it, and outlines improvements to Old Fulton Street (stretching along the base of the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza) and Atlantic Avenue. The draft master plan is to be reviewed by the public at a series of workshops and community meetings in the coming weeks. A final master plan will be presented in June. All required land use and environmental approvals will be obtained, as necessary. "For more than three centuries, this site has been important to the history of Brooklyn Six Dutch towns An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore of Long Island, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands. , the harbor and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ," said Joanne Witty, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation. "Brooklyn Bridge Park is the next step in the process of transforming 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". into a thriving green recreation zone. I look forward to presenting this plan to the City and State for review." |
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