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August 28, 2006
Big Park Plans for Bushwick Inlet
There's been tons of talk about the ambitious plans for the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront in general but we hadn't heard much up til now about a specific piece of the project called the Bushwick Inlet Park. At last week's Community Board 1 meeting, city planners proposed a 25-acre stretch that would include soccer and softball fields, a visitors center, a boathouse, a beach, and a boardwalk as well as a museum and memorial plaza dedicated to the USS Monitor. Looks pretty snazzy to us.
Garden-Variety Brooklyn [NY Post]
Comments
The park should include a location for the future Nets stadium, where the Nets will move to in 30 years after their one at Atlantic Yards is deemed inadequate because of too few luxury boxes and insufficient parking. They can't be expected to rebuild on-site, not when there is a park used by poor people somewhere in the vicinity.
Posted by: Anon at August 28, 2006 10:39 AM
huh? very weird post....
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 11:25 AM
where exactly along the waterfront will this be? i couldn't tell from the article. if they can find a way to remove the funny smell that accompanies so much of the industrial parts of greenpoint, i'm all for it!
Posted by: Jimmy Legs at August 28, 2006 11:28 AM
11:28, here is a rather outdated map but it'd give you a general idea:
http://www.nylcv.org/Programs/WPC/blueprint/boroughs/brooklyn/pages/2_williamsburg/
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 11:35 AM
No need to move the stadium, as it will be just fine atop the former location of Dan Goldstein's home.
Posted by: Babbs at August 28, 2006 12:49 PM
The City plans to start this project right after hell freezes over.
Posted by: GrandPa at August 28, 2006 2:31 PM
will this park, with Bushwick in the name, help gentrify and revitalize Bushwick? The area area has such a bad stigma and reputation.
Posted by: anonymous at August 28, 2006 2:37 PM
Considering it's nowhere near Bushwick proper, nope.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 3:13 PM
i think they name of a nice park might help Bushwick's image. afterall that will make people more open and receptive to bushwick proper, and the area might improve.
is bushwick considered bad, or really bad. isn't brownsville, east NY, flatlands, etc. considered worse (I realize these nabes aren't mention much on this blog!)
Posted by: anonymous at August 28, 2006 3:37 PM
Bushwick is still considered bad my most, except where it touches Wmsburg. That will change as more of the hip and happening move into the nabe. It's a wonder what time can do. Used to be you couldn't say you lived in Bed Stuy without people crossing themseves in fear. Now it's edgy and expensive! Someday even East New York will have cachet.
Posted by: Crown Heights Proud at August 28, 2006 5:18 PM
OZONE PARK BAY-BEE!
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 5:50 PM
ozone park? are you crazy, it's so far out there. no one is going to pay decent rent or buy a house that far from the city.
bushwick is close as crown heights proud said and may turn over next.
Posted by: anonymous at August 28, 2006 6:06 PM
Woodhaven, Queens rocks!!!
Cool bars, great food, and superhot chicks.
Plus, the J train...
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 6:14 PM
The J line isn't cool. yeah it runs through williamsburg, but the L is cooler.
Posted by: anonymous at August 28, 2006 6:51 PM
What makes Bushwick so bad? Are there gangs, shootings, killings?
Posted by: Anonymous at August 28, 2006 7:34 PM
Well lets put it this way, Bushwick Bill, the one eyed midget rapper from the Geto Boys, didn't adopt the moniker because it rung true with the Andover/Exeter crowd?
Posted by: SuperAnon at August 28, 2006 8:33 PM
Bushwick near the Jefferson/Dekalb stop of the L is fine. There are lots of artists moving in. I'm a white 36 yr old female and I feel fine walking around the immediate area. I would't venture over to Knickerbocker on my own late at night though.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 19, 2006 10:57 PM
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