Brooklyn Greenway to Create Small Park in Navy Yard
This is pretty cool. We received an email yesterday from the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative with information about a Request for Qualifications the non-profit had put out with the Regional Plan Association to identify designers for a small park it is planning to build along the Greenway on the site of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard…
This is pretty cool. We received an email yesterday from the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative with information about a Request for Qualifications the non-profit had put out with the Regional Plan Association to identify designers for a small park it is planning to build along the Greenway on the site of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, one of several “open space nodes” planned along the Greenway route. This RFQ is the first we’ve heard of this particular project—and, if completed, would represent the first reuse of the Hospital site that we are aware of. The park space is already spec’d out at 1.7 acres at the Southeast corner of the Hospital site, along Williamsburg Street West between Flushing and Kent Avenues. (You can check out a video we made of the Naval Hospital back in 2007 if you’d like to learn more.) The deadline for submissions is March 12th, but interested parties must submit a Notice of Intent to Respond by Monday. The briefing book is available here.
It is the old Naval Hospital Cemetery which dates back to 1830. Most of the remains were disinterred from here and moved to Cyprus Hills in 1926. But in 1997 when the Navy was transferring this site to the BNYDC they did a study – ground penetrating radar and they found remains still in the ground. Therefore BNYDC is not going to develop the land and they have an agreement with the State Historic Preservation Office to build a memorial. This is what RFQ from BGI is for. Urban Oyster (www.urbanoyster.com) runs tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the cemetery site is one of the things covered on the tour as well as getting a close up look at the hospital campus itself.
There is a historic military cemetery on that site.
and there is the vacant hulk of the 1840’s hospital.
The former hospital is protected by Federal, State, and City landmark designations, not so sure about the cemetery.
dude – that’s the cemetery!