BB Park: Do Your Little Turn On The Catwalk

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]

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And just like that, Mr. B doomed us all to a day filled with this in our heads:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDG6__Zfc

Make it stop! (hah)

Posted by: webster at March 22, 2007 9:36 AM

I think of all the beautiful parks there are in Europe and all the gorgeous places built for the Worlds Fair in SF and Chicago. I think of all the possibilities and then I see the BBP plan, and I feel just sad. This plan looks like it belongs at the Marriott Virginia Beach.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 10:03 AM

In the last communication I had with Brooklyn Eagle they swore they were opening it up and expanding their "web presence" soon.

Posted by: Qfwfq at March 22, 2007 10:07 AM

ridiculous looking! what on earth is on these people's minds? who put the retards in charge????? get some real designers and create a functional park, not an unfriendly eyesore!

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 10:28 AM

quick, someone email someone this link so they know what this area is all about:

http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/02/the_prewar_prom.php

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 10:45 AM

Come on you cant tell a thing from this one picture

Posted by: David at March 22, 2007 10:45 AM

I've seen enough of this plan. This is just one more nail in the coffin

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 11:15 AM

When I was a kid, we had a plastic tube arrangement for our gerbils -- was it called Habitat? -- that's what this looks like. Gerbil tunnels for people.

Posted by: SPer at March 22, 2007 11:16 AM

I'm holding out for a teleporter.

Posted by: Homer Fink at March 22, 2007 11:34 AM

but isn't that how these developers perceive us....as gerbils in finely tailored clothes?

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 11:53 AM

Now just imagine the bridge with graffitti etching, discarded gum, pigeon dropping and dog doo, flooded in the rain, groups of kids congregating after school and blocking your path...

Posted by: supergirl at March 22, 2007 12:25 PM

I second the complaint about the Eagle's paid subcription deal. When they first started asking readers to sign up for free, I reluctantly did, but now that they're asking for money, I've stopped reading. Don't they already rake it in with the pages of legal notices they print every day, all of which come somewhat dubiously from the publishers' connections to the Brooklyn Courts. It's a shame because as of late they've had some good stuff -- that nobody outside of Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn have access to. For shame, for shame.

Posted by: Anonymous Person at March 22, 2007 12:35 PM

I agree with 12:35. I signed up when it was free and I advertised with them. now you can't even read an article without giving them money. they are very old school..time to come into the 21st century!

Posted by: anon at March 22, 2007 4:34 PM

Awfully easy to pan everything. The fact is there's a significant elevation difference to get people from the promenade to Fuhrman street. One alternative is an elevator, but public elevators tend to be bad ideas. This ramp/spiral concept does the job and also avoids stairs for the baby stroller/bike/roller blader crowd. If you Posters have better ideas, please get involved. And no, I'm not the designer of the ramp or a park planner or a relative...just someone who saw the prestentation.

Posted by: Stop the Negativity at March 22, 2007 8:10 PM

Has anyone seen any reliable information on costs for the units in One Brooklyn? Perhaps this question is premature.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 9:42 PM

Actually at both ends of the park (@ atlantic and @ fulton ferry landing) there is no elevation at all and bikes, etc can enter there. Assuming you'd like one entry point in the middle as well, the possible entry at the Clark St Station would take care of that.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 23, 2007 9:57 AM

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