[Click to enlarge image] We weren’t at last night’s public meeting about Brooklyn Bridge Park, but by all accounts–and there are several–it was not a happy scene. There was shouting. There was finger pointing. There were “I told you so’s.” There was also an admission of the obvious: for now, only Pier One and Pier […]

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[The Performance Stair and Tidal Pool at Pier 2/Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates] There has been much info floating around in recent days about Brooklyn Bridge Park and none of it has been very good. First, came a press release from a host of Brooklyn pols that would seem to have been an indication that segments […]

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After the longest time of waiting, wondering, rolling our eyes and saying “yeah yeah yeah, sure,” it seems that work is finally going to get started next month on the Brooklyn Bridge Park. We’ll certainly be keeping an eye on this – and hope our GL Flickr Pool friends do the same.–Brownstoner

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Among the many events that will take place on September 11 is a performance by the Silver-Brown Dance Company at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Per an email: The Silver-Brown Dance Company (SBD) returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park this Fall with OASIS 5, their annual dance performance memorializing the anniversary of 9/11. The performance takes place on […]

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[Photo courtesy of Sabeth718/GL Flickr Pool] Brooklyn Bridge Park may have been dogged by controversy from Day One (and may still be embroiled in a great deal of it), but land clearance has been going on for a while and it has opened up many new vistas. This is one such look at Manhattan through […]

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[Photo courtesy of nycrouge/GL Flickr Pool] The Brooklyn Bridge Park “Pop-Up Park” on Pier One, which opened in June when Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls were turned on, will be open for an extended period: More than 140,000 have visited Brooklyn’s latest hot spot for its café, picnic tables, benches, sandbox, and magnificent views of New York […]

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For those who enjoy watching a film in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Financial District skyline and Brooklyn Bridge as a backdrop, the Movies with a View series is screening Pleasantville tonight. Per their site: “Back to the past imperfect. Pre-superstardom Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon time travel to a black-and-white ‘50s sitcom world, and […]

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[Photo courtesy of nycrouge/flickr] This is a gorgeous sunset as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park the other night. Given the gorgeousness of the scene, we’re really surprised there weren’t more people hanging out taking it all in.

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The movie series in Brooklyn Bridge Park is starting on Thrusday. The schedule is above and here’s a bit from an email we got about it: This coming Thursday, July 10th at 6 PM, brooklynradio.net will be at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, providing music for Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s Movies With A View series. For […]

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Yesterday, Curbed got a new set of a dozen renderings of Brooklyn Bridge Park, work on which is coming along. Two segments, on Pier 6 at Atlantic Avenue and at Pier 1 at Fulton Ferry Landing are supposed to be finished by the end of 2009. Work on the entire park, however, could stretch through […]

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There’s a meeting on Brooklyn Bridge Park tonight to provide an update from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp. on the first phase of park construction and a schedule for work. It takes place on at 6PM at the Dibner Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 5 Metrotech Center. Many of the banners on the new pop up […]

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This is one of the old warehouses on the Brooklyn waterfront that is slated to become Brooklyn Bridge Park as seen from the water side. This is one of the ones that will remain standing and be converted to recreational use.

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Here’s a look at the new Pop-Up Rice outpost in the Pop-Up Brooklyn Bridge Park. We’ve got beer, wine and a limited menu of food. While it looks like the sun might be a little intense during the day unless there are umbrellas we didn’t see, it could be quite the spot in the evening […]

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We checked out the new Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park yesterday and concluded that it’s going to be a nice thing to have this summer. Of course, we saw it not long after the gates swung open, before it’s crowded with tourists and bridal parties snapping photos. Nonetheless, it offers a nice vantage on the Olafur […]

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These Brooklyn Bridge Park renderings are totally cheating in the sense that they’re photos of some of the banners that have been hung at the temporary Pop-Up Park. Nonetheless, they represent the latest iteration of the park, the first segments of which will actually be opening next year. Among the first part of the park […]

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Eliasson Waterfall at Brooklyn Bridge from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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We’re only a couple of hours away from the opening of the Pop-Up Brooklyn Bridge Park for waterfall viewing and summer lounging by the water. Here’s a bit more detail about it from the Brooklyn Bridge Park website: Opening to the public for the first time, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 will offer spectacular views […]

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There’s a big and interesting music series coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park starting Wednesday, July 9 called Music At The Bridge. Headliners include John Zorn, French Kicks, and Las Rubias Del Norte. The concerts will run on five consecutive Wenesdays starting at 6:30PM and a different Brooklyn musical venue “will curate a three-hour jewel of […]

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A surprise opening date of June 26 was announced at a Community Board 2 meeting on Wednesday night for the pop-up park on land being cleared for the future Brooklyn Bridge Park. The opening coincides with the date that Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls are being turned on. Details about the park per Curbed, via the Brooklyn […]

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[Image courtesy of heyheyamy/flickr] The Brooklyn waterfront where Brooklyn Bridge Park is intended to rise is changing very, very rapidly. This photo was dropped into the Gowanus Lounge Photo pool by heyheyamy and shows the site from the Brooklyn Bridge. The warehouses in the distance are still standing, but demolition is underway there too, and […]

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Rather than being universally embraced, Brooklyn Bridge Park has sparked deep controversy in some quarters in Brooklyn, primarily because high rise condo development will be used to finance the park. The Sierra Club, which opposes the way the park is being developed, is sponsoring a presentation called “The Selling of Brooklyn Bridge Park” on Friday, […]

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This is a Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park designed by dlandstuio for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy for a temporary viewing area for one of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge. Tropolism first published the renderings and info yesterday. It would be designed for viewing of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge. The same […]

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There’s a meeting about Brooklyn Bridge Park tomorrow (May 5). Per an email from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund: There is an important meeting 5/5 regarding Brooklyn Bridge Park’s inclusion of Pier 6 in the plan for the new park. Pier 6 was not part of the original plan and therefore did not receive […]

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The story of the wonderful carousel painstakingly restored by Jane Walentas in Dumbo is an odd one, given how hard she and her husband David have been trying to secure a place for it in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Walentases have covered the cost of restoration and have contracted with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel […]

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Interestingly, one of the first personnel changes in the aftermath of the transition from Eliot Spitzer to David Paterson in Albany was that of Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) Chairman Pat Foye, who was a friend of the departed governor. Norman Oder of AYR took a look at the sudden departure (on Friday it had […]

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