Popular Mechanics had an article, as well as the renderings above (click to enlarge), about the 396-foot-long Squibb Park Bridge, which will connect the Promenade to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Plans for the pedestrian walkway sound extremely cool: “From Squibb Park, the bridge will zigzag gracefully through a clutch of tall oaks, between buildings and over a street, descending 30 feet in elevation from its starting point to its endpoint in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Supported by poured-concrete pillars and suspended by steel cables, the primary construction material will be 6- and 10-inch-diameter pieces of Robinia pseudoacacia, or black locust, a tree found widely in the Southeast but also prevalent in forests of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.” The project is supposed to be done by next summer, according to the article.
A New Brooklyn Bridge—This Time Made of Trees [Popular Mechanics]
Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge to be Made of Wood [BHB]
Bridge Will Connect Heights to Park [Eagle]