BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Under the K Bridge Park,
a long-awaited greenspace beneath
the Kosciuszko Bridge
in Greenpoint, opened on
Tuesday, offering a brandnew
place for locals to spend
their days amid the fresh outdoors,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
announced.
“The Kosciuszko Bridge
project continues to reap benefi
ts not only for motorists,
pedestrians and the cycling
community, but for a North
Brooklyn community craving
for more open space in
the midst of a worldwide pandemic,”
Cuomo said May 25.
The State Department
of Transportation built the
nearly 7-acre, mostly-hardscape
park in the vacant lot under
the Brooklyn-Queens span
next to the heavily-polluted
Newtown Creek — which was
announced as part of the $873
million reconstruction of the
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bridge in 2019.
The park, designed by Canadian
fi rm Public Work, offers
elevated lawns, a rain garden,
wetland gardens, trees, and
a large hill to accommodate
watching performances, along
with a plaza and connections
to the bike and pedestrian path
on the Brooklyn-bound side of
the bridge above.
A space along the Newtown
Creek, a federal Superfund
site, called “Creekside”
features foundations of the old
Kosciuszko Bridge which was
built during the presidency of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and was
torn down in 2017 to make way
for its larger successor.
The State-owned plot will
be maintained by greenspacce
stewards the North Brooklyn
Parks Alliance, who will also
be responsible for programming.
One of the group’s founders
said the new outdoor area
will be a boon to the neighborhood,
The new Under the K Bridge Park in Greenpoint. Offi ce of Gov. Andrew Cuomo
which lacks easy access
to other parks.
“North Brooklyn has been
historically underserved with
its amount parks and open
space,” said Joseph Vance.
“With very little land available
to create new parks, Under
the K Bridge Park opens
the door for innovative transformation
of underutilized
public land for open space.”
The park was originally
slated to open in summer of
2020, but was delayed amid the
pandemic — although the yetto
be-opened park became the
grounds for a secret rave last
summer as hundreds of revelers
fl ocked to the space until
police broke up the party,
Gothamist reported.
Under the K Bridge enter
at Van Dam Street and Meeker
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nbkparks.org. Open daily from
dawn until dusk.
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Greenpoint’s newest park fi nally
opens under Kosciuszko Bridge
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