If a tree falls behind the Brooklyn Eagle’s paid-subscription firewall, does it make a sound on the Internet? Only if some resourceful blogger willing to shell out the required coinage is quick with his cut-and-paste. In this case, Brooklyn Heights Blog nicely grabbed this somewhat startling image of the proposed elevated cross-walk from the Heights to Brooklyn Bridge Park that was released, presumably, as part of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Waterfront Local Development Corporation(LDC). BHB notes that the designer of the futuristic catwalk is “traffic engineering” guru Sam Schwartz. BHB doesn’t like the design at all, calling it “wack.” (Where’s Streetsblog on this one?) It does feel like it’s trying too hard to be different for its own sake, though maybe there’s some form-follows-function thing at work here that we’re not getting. Oh, yeah, probably because we couldn’t read the darn article. C’mon, Eagle, get with the program!
Proposed Connection to BBP is Wack [Brooklyn Heights Blog]