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‘Under the K’
Park development below Kosciuszko
Bridge to show off ecological resiliency
The project being undertaken by the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance will seize on seven acres
that will be left open under bridge slated for completion by September 2019 as a cultural
hub for Brooklynites and Queens residents. PUBLIC WORK
BY MARK HALLUM
City parks with an ecological
resiliency are
expanding across the
outer boroughs, with
the latest proposal for
a green-space below
the nearly-finished Kosciuszko
Bridge on the
Brooklyn side of Newtown
Creek.
Dubbed “Under the
K” — for pronunciation
purposes, apparently
— the project being
undertaken by the
North Brooklyn Parks
Alliance will seize on
seven acres that will
be left open under the
bridge is slated for
completion by September
2019 as a cultural
hub for Brooklynites
and possibly Queens
residents.
Unveiled in late
June, the NBPA said
“Under the K” will
not only provide four
different communities
with recreational
space, but also match
the amount of development
in Williamsburg
and Greenpoint with
park land.
But the idea of creekside
parkland may not
be as enticing to some
nearby residents who
know the Newtown as
a state Superfund site
from its decades as a
thoroughfare for industry
such as concrete
plants.
“The idea is that it’s
going to be very accessible
from the bike lanes
over the Kosciuszko
Bridge… It’s going to
be directly connected
to the bike lane coming
off the bridge,” Katie
Denny Horowitz,
the executive director
of the NBPA said.
“We’ve been working
on the Newtown Creek
Alliance on having an
ecological educational
opportunity and using
it as way to not give access
to the creek but
educate people on the
history of the creek.
Given that there are
already existing parks
on the creek — like the
Newtown Creek nature
walk — and there are
cleanup efforts in place
and we will follow the
same procedures as
existing access points
along the creek.”
But Brooklyn will
not be the only side of
Newtown Creek benefiting
from a new park.
The state Department
of Transportation
will be designing a
Queens counterpart to
“Under the K.” However,
the proposal is in very
preliminary stages.
“As part of the Kosciuszko
Bridge project,
the New York State
Department of Transportation
plans to create
an approximately
3 0 , 0 0 0 - squa r e - foot
park directly adjacent
to the bridge along
43rd Street between
54th and 55th Avenues
in Queens,” Glenn
Blain, spokesman with
state DOT said. “The
proposed park is still
in the preliminary
design phase and we
will share more details
with the community
as plans progress.
The park is expected to
open in 2022.”
NBPA is working to
finish on the design for
“Under the K” by the
spring of 2020.
In April 2017, Gov.
Andrew Cuomo and
other local officials
from Brooklyn and
Queens cut the ribbon
on the first span of the
new Kosciuszko Bridge,
which was hailed as
the first bridge project
of its kind in the state
since the 1960s.
Altogether, the effort
to build five Queensbound
and four Brooklyn
bound lanes cost
taxpayers $873 million.
But something the original
bridge lacked was
pedestrian and bike
lanes, making the new
overpass an asset to not
only motorists. but for
the public at large.
“Few parks could offer
such raw potential for
community engagement
in activation, recreation,
culture, and nature – a
testing ground for contemporary
expressions
of social and ecological
transformation.” Marc
Ryan and Adam Nicklin,
cofounders of PUBLIC
WORK, said in a joint
statement.
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