If you’ve ever wanted to get up close and personal with Newtown Creek, or just hang by the water and read a book, you will soon have your chance. The photo taken by our Greenpoint correspondent and posted on flickr shows the progress of work on the park at the end of Manhattan Avenue. Work has been on there for a long, long time, but it looks like they’re in the home stretch. There is eventually supposed to be a sister park across the water in Long Island City, but we don’t know the exact status of those plans. Personally, we’ve always liked the idea of a retractable pedestrian bridge on this spot to connect the two spots. At one time, there was an actual bridge in this place, but that was a looooong time ago.