Pop-Up Park Pops in Brooklyn Bridge Park

will they be serving beer here? looks like there are taps!!!

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 9:49 AM

the waterfalls are made of beer. it's going to be a great summer.

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 9:55 AM

Correction by way of explanation:
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, of which Regina Myer is the president, is constructing the park with public monies. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, for which Marianna Koval serves as president, raises private funds for programming.

Oh, and 9:49, there will be beer and wine at the "pop-up" (drink up and fall down) park.

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 10:09 AM

Hey, it is 10:18 - where are the pictures of the pop up park...

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 10:19 AM

HEAVEN!!! Brooklyn really is just getting better and better.

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 10:54 AM

Here's more info on PIER 1:

SUMMER '08 @ PIER 1 (the pop-up park) will be operating June 26 - Labor Day, from 10:00am-10:00pm, 7 days a week. The site is managed and operated by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy.

PIER 1 will feature a cafe (open at noon), picnic tables, landscaping with some trees and grass, and a sand play area.

A free shuttle with stops at Borough Hall and the High Street (Cadman Plaza West) subway stations will run to the site on Fridays (5:00pm-10:30pm) and Saturdays and Sundays (10:00pm-10:30pm).

For more info, visit the Conservancy website at www.brooklynbridgepark.org

We hope to see you this summer!

Nancy Webster
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 11:53 AM

I think it is wonderful that we have a park for at least the summer. The question for the conservancy as a non-profit that has had fundraised in this community for years is WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH ALL THAT MONEY. They have a large payroll and really only provide programming in the summer.
The Question for the BBPESDC is why can't we have a real park-not this Battery Park City thing. Brooklyns Tax roles have increased due to new residents..new businesses etc. Why this plan.
The question to Millman, Yassky and Connor is why did you give away our public waterfront to private developers?
Let's all enjoy the park this summer while we await the answers

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 4:31 PM

You two need to calm down. "Battery Park City thing"? "Gated community"? Give me a break. They are taking a few spots on Furman Street (where there are already buildings) for the condos, and turning all of the rest into parkland. Have you even seen the plans? You don't need to walk past some condo security guard to get into the park and can ignore the adjacent condos just like you can ignore the apartments that line Central Park West or Prospect Park West. The park plan is not perfect but all this anti-park rhetoric is ridiculous.

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 6:34 PM

what is happening, that "park" looks like a marketing campaign.
nyc is getting kinda lame and trying to be better and cool at the same time. nothing sadder than watching someone trying to be cool.

Posted by: guest at June 26, 2008 9:34 PM

I agree completely with 6:34 and propose an additional theory: development of the park has dragged on for so long that many people don't remember that the only way we were able to get a park was to offer to make it financially self-sufficient. Anybody who complains about the modest amount of housing that is proposed along the periphery of the park should take another look at the plan floated by the Port Authority, which covered the entire site with buildings.

And, since I'm encouraging rhetorical honesty here, I will note that when people agreed to a self-sufficient park, there was explicit opposition to housing as the revenue generater. But I, for one, agree that nothing kicks back as much income on a per square foot basis as residential development ... which is on the periphery of the park, not in it as so many people like to fudge.

Posted by: guest at June 27, 2008 8:42 AM

that may be, 8:42- but there are other ways to make it self-sufficient. And once you go that route of luxury housing, then you start to get all the issues of luxury housing residents vs the needs of a public park. And it still remains to be seen how once you go down that road what the impact of using residential housing to support a park will really mean.

And who will oversee all of this? the PA? the Conservancy? How much public funding is involved? there are a lot of questions and uncertainties but the way things go in this city, when it comes to a question of private interests with money vs public interest, private always wins. While the idea of a self-sufficient public park is a nice one, what happens if it isn't? Do they take it away? Isn't there an inherent conflict of interest in trying to make a public space a commercial venture? Some things just aren't meant to be because it compromises what they are.

Posted by: guest at June 27, 2008 9:32 AM

As someone who works in Battery Park - let me say we would be very very very luck if the BB-Park ended up like the PUBLIC park along Battery Park City- it is gorgeous.

The problem with the park around Battery Park City is not the condos or the park (which if you have visited you would realize how nice it is) - the problem is that it is hard to get to - (far from the subway) and effectively walled-off from the rest of the city b/c of the WTC and Westside Highway.

The fact that BB-Park will be slightly closer to mass transit and much more accessible to the general population, plus the residential component will be on the periphery can only means that it will be even better.....

Posted by: guest at June 27, 2008 11:55 AM

We discovered this little park last Friday and had a great time. Plenty of seating, great views, a sandbox for my kid and beers! More playgrounds should serve wine and beer, incidentally, to take the edge off all us uptight parents. I'm not sure I get what's not to like considering it was previously an unaccessible concrete pier.

Posted by: guest at June 30, 2008 11:00 AM

This is just a simple way to placate the masses. Look closely at the renderings. They are false. They suggest the hotel complex is smaller and moved away from the existing brownstones - it isn't. Look at pier 6 - more of the same. Right where they show a playground will be a 30 story and a 20 story tower is planned. It is really shameful, the falsehood. They are wasting our tax dollars to draw nice pictures. This is going to be a condo-landscaped "park" without a pool, an ice rink, year round field house or anything else Brooklyn needs. Bring back the community's park plan and banish the condo cheerleaders - the "conservancy" (they are doing a great job conserving their jobs, that is for sure)!

Posted by: guest at June 30, 2008 2:39 PM