BY KEVIN DUGGAN
She’s fi nally getting her
plaza in history!
A planned civic square beneath
Brooklyn Bridge that
will mark the fi nal section of
Brooklyn Bridge Park will be
named after Emily Roebling,
who oversaw the completion of
the borough’s iconic namesake
span, local greenspace stewards
announced Wednesday.
“We are proud to announce
that we will be naming this fi -
nal section of the park offi cially
as Emily Roebling Plaza,” said
Brooklyn Bridge Park president
Eric Landau at a groundbreaking
ceremony at Water and New
Dock streets on Dec. 9.
The two-acre plaza will open
in Dec. 2021 and honor Roebling,
who took over the helm of
the bridge’s construction after
her husband Washington Roebling
became bedridden with
caisson disease, also known as
the bends, and one of the 19thcentury
pioneer’s living descendants
said she paved the way for
women across the nation.
“It changed a lot of people’s
minds in America at that time
to see a woman in such an unprecedented
position of responsibility
on what was unquestionably
the most ambitious
architectural feat of its time,”
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said Emily’s great-great grandson
Kriss Roebling at the event.
The move follows a push by
local preservationists earlier
this year to name the plaza after
Roebling rather than the
previous title “Brooklyn Bridge
Plaza.”
The 19th-century Brooklynite
was the fi rst person to
cross the bridge following its
completion — reportedly riding
inside a horse-drawn carriage
with a rooster, symbolic of victory,
on her lap.
But despite her contribution
to one of the world’s greatest
structures, she was often overshadowed
in the history books
by her husband and father-inlaw,
John Roebling, a German-
American suspension bridge
engineer who designed the
monument.
The $8 million overhaul of
the fenced-off lot into a new
public square marks the fi nal
portion of the decade-and-ahalf
redevelopment of Brooklyn
Bridge Park, from a former
industrial waterfront into the
sprawling 1.3-mile long lawn it
is today.
The lot will be transformed
into a public space aimed at
better connecting Brooklyn’s
Front Yard between the Dumbo
section and the southern piers.
The space will have an asphalt
plaza with so-called concrete
unit pavers in a striped
pattern mirroring the bridge
above, along with a revamped
Fulton Ferry Lawn.
Mayor Bill de Blasio also attended
the ceremony, where he
said the plaza was a great way
to wrap up the park’s development
with one of Brooklyn’s
proudest daughters.
“Here American history
changed because Emily Roebling
showed something that
people needed to see about the
power and talent and ability of
women,” Hizzoner said. “This
park, this section right here,
is going to help us understand
how we progressed in yesteryear,
but we have to progress
again now in this time.”
Emily Roebling.
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Emily Roebling Plaza. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
‘American history changed
because of Emily Roebling’
BB plaza named for woman who oversaw construction
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