City Planning Facelift for Slope's J.J. Byrne Park
[nggallery id=”22516″ template=galleryview] Within the next few months the city is going to start a second round of community-based planning for a major overhaul to J.J. Byrne Park. The Parks Dept. is going to focus on revamping the main section of J.J. Byrne, near 5th Avenue between 3rd and 4th streets, with a view to…
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Within the next few months the city is going to start a second round of community-based planning for a major overhaul to J.J. Byrne Park. The Parks Dept. is going to focus on revamping the main section of J.J. Byrne, near 5th Avenue between 3rd and 4th streets, with a view to starting work on the area by 2010. Listening sessions were held last year about how the space should change, and the result of that community input is rendered above by landscape architecture firm Abel Bainnson Butz. Residents called for the playground to be divided up into three age-specific areas (one for toddlers, one for elementary-age kids and the largest for junior high-ers) and for the entrance on 5th Avenue to come in the form of a tree-lined pathway. Altogether, the current conceptual plan involves a 65 percent increase in the park’s play area. Another idea for the park is to build a food kiosk near its center. Stone Park Cafe has expressed interest in running the concession stand. After the play area and entrance are overhauled, “the big dream,” according to Kim Maier, the executive director of the Old Stone House, is to build an annex for the structure. While planning is occurring for the 5th Avenue end of the park, meanwhile, work will begin to convert asphalt courts on the 4th Avenue side into synthetic ballfields. That part of J.J. Byrne’s redesign is expected to kick off at the end of August, and it’s start date is being timed to coincide with a ribbon-cutting for the new (and very overdue) Terrapin Playground, which is being redone in a private-public pact with the Novo’s developers.
Extreme Makeover for J.J. Byrne Park [Brownstoner]
Will the park be renamed WASHINGTON PARK? I agree with 11:19 – there is absolutly no need for a kiosk. Plenty of places in the area to get whatever you would need.
This will be a much needed improvment over what’s there. But a food kiosk? There must be twenty restaurants within a two block radius. I say keep a park a park. Prospect Park doesn’t have food vendors (unless you count a few hot dog carts and the snack bar at the ice rink). Why would you need one in a small neighborhood park?
Looks great.
Hopefully there will be less concrete
Yea! 11:09 is right. Can’t tell what’s where.
This is great news. The new park will look amazing. Back in the late 80’s I was looking for a commercial/residential building to buy. The only place that was within my budget was a buliding on 5th avenue. So I had to “settle” for a 5th avenue building. The area was nothing like it is today. The difference between 7th and 5th was day and night.
The change is nothing short of amazing. The best part is that the park is a short walking distance from my building 🙂
would be great to know what those letters reffered to in the schematic.
I agree. When I first moved to NYC, 5th Ave had few of what I consider to be amenities. Whenever my friends and I went out for a night of fun, we always had to go to Manhattan, but nowadays it’s a matter of which Brooklyn neighborhood is the pick of the night.
10:37, and what you described is a large reason for the run up in housing in certain areas of Brooklyn.
It doesn’t ALL have to do with the bubble. Much of it has to do with the fact that many of these areas are 1000 times better than they once were.