BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Greenspace gurus at Brooklyn
Bridge Park opened a
freshly-minted lawn adjacent to
Pier 2 on July 6 — adding new,
hilly parkland to Brooklyn’s
front yard.
“10 years after opening the
fi rst section of the park, we are
incredibly excited to today open
the Pier 2 Uplands, now one step
closer to fi nishing Brooklyn
Bridge Park as originally designed,”
said Brooklyn Bridge
Park Corporation president
Eric Landau in a statement.
The more than 3-acre space
next to Pier 2 marks the secondt0
last section of the sprawling
waterfront redevelopment, according
to Landau, who lauded
the opening as a way for locals
to enjoy the outdoors amid
COVID-19.
“Parks have always been essential,
but during this time,
open space is more critical than
ever,” he said.
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The section’s development
cost $17 million and includes
a 6,300 square foot lawn, 1,300
new trees and shrubs, a soundattenuating
berm, and a play
area with water sprinklers, according
to offi cials.
At the park’s perimeter, the
non-profi t Brooklyn Bridge
Park Corporation, which oversees
the park, built a sloping
grassy mound of earth that will
reduce noise coming from the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
and Furman Street, as well as
camoufl age the area’s existing
maintenance building.
Last summer, parks gurus
removed 10 parking spaces
along Furman Street, replacing
them with fi ve spaces for
bus layover parking for school
trips and an expanded Citi Bike
dock, while adding a new parking
lot near Pier 2.
Locals lauded Brooklyn
Pier 2 Uplands opened at Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 6. Alexa Hoyer
Bridge Park leaders for including
their wishes into a revised
design of the park in 2017, after
resident watchdogs asked for
the stone seating to be removable
so that park-goers could
sled down the hill come wintertime
and for planners to include
the bus drop off, so that the people
movers wouldn’t clog the
busy streets.
Pier 2 Uplands is the penultimate
section of the morethan
a-decade redevelopment
of the former industrial waterfront
into a 1.3 mile long, 85 acre
park, which the corporation
broke ground for in 2008.
For the fi nal stretch, the organization
plans to install a
pedestrian plaza beneath the
Brooklyn Bridge, which the
city’s Landmarks Preservation
Commission approved on May
19, and which is slated to start
construction in the fall with
completion scheduled for December
2021.
Locals have pushed for that
fi nal section, currently dubbed
“Brooklyn Bridge Plaza,” to be
renamed after Emily Roebling,
who oversaw the completion of
the borough’s iconic span in the
19th century. Landau has previously
said he is supportive of
that renaming, but would want
to do it through Mayor Bill
de Blasio’s offi ce ahead of the
square’s opening.
Nearby, Brooklyn Bridge
Park also opened a rebuilt
metal Squibb Bridge on May 4
leading from Brooklyn Heights
to the park’s Pier 1.
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