BPL Plaza Post-Renovation
Well, the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library plaza at Grand Army Plaza that’s taken the better part of two years is complete. When we walked by on Sunday, the final product—heavy on the marble—looked pretty nice, if a tad bit cold, to us. As Gowanus Lounge remarked, the main stairway is now lined with…
Well, the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library plaza at Grand Army Plaza that’s taken the better part of two years is complete. When we walked by on Sunday, the final product—heavy on the marble—looked pretty nice, if a tad bit cold, to us. As Gowanus Lounge remarked, the main stairway is now lined with yellow chains, an effort, evidently, to keep people from frolicking in the fountains on either end of the steps. Do you think this’ll end up being a place where people actually hang out? Presumably that was the intention.
Checking In On The BPL Plaza Renovation[Brownstoner] GMAP
This is SUCH a great library. Anyone who hasn’t used it, check it out.
Needs more cowbell.
Needs some greenery.
How do you do a renovation like that, one that borrows from the Museum’s fountains, and then not look ahead to making it safe? Why do they realise after it’s open that they’ll have to disfigure it with yellow chains? It’s pretty and all that, and I’m sure the theater below is boss, but the plaza suffers from the safe needlessly flashy short-termism that bedevils every other public works project that gets inflicted on the Borough. It’s like Marty Markowitz is actually drawing up the plans.
I wish they had planted more trees. It looks to bare to me. But I certainly am glad they are finally done with it and that they added ramps. This city is terrible in terms of accessibility.
Albert Speer would be proud…
I like it. Does that make me a bad person?
It looks the same because the bulk of the work was done inside the building making a new theatre.
this is the nicest public library in the country, if you ask me.
something about it brings so many good feelings.
People hung out there BEFORE the renovation. That being said, it looks pretty good, if strangely similar to the look prior to when the work was done.