Pier 6 Playground Opens to Public
[nggallery id=”44973″ template=galleryview] As promised, Pier 6, the second piece of the Brooklyn Bridge Park puzzle, opened this past weekend. In a city where playgrounds tend to be on the smaller side, this 1.6-acre layout offers just about anything a kid could ever dream of. There is a water park with fountains and streams, a…
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As promised, Pier 6, the second piece of the Brooklyn Bridge Park puzzle, opened this past weekend. In a city where playgrounds tend to be on the smaller side, this 1.6-acre layout offers just about anything a kid could ever dream of. There is a water park with fountains and streams, a 6,000-square-foot sandbox, slides (including some that looked two stories high), and an area known as “Swing Valley,” a hilly area complete with gigantic rope swings. The park is surrounded by a wide bikeway and promenade, and there is also a dog run. Eventually, the park will be getting volleyball courts, more lawn area, and a restaurant. It’s a pretty impressive accomplishment, and great to see that much life brought to that end of Atlantic.
Pier 6 To Open With Ferry Service [Brownstoner]
Pier 6 Opens to Rave Reviews [NY Post]
Grand Opening for Pier 6 at B’klyn Bridge Park [Brooklyn Eagle]
Pier 6 Details and Video [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Pools are great, Benson, but again, no need to center all these expensive great things only in higher income areas. If they exist outside of such areas, please, tell me where they are. If not, the point still stands.
Biff, fountains wit sprinklers, etc. is exactly what I want to play in! I know there are no fancy 6 Flags type rides. And with my foot injury, walking barefoot on sand is precisely what the doctor ordered, no kidding! No, I wouldn’t spend all day there. But could I see myself doing that for an hour or two, you bet!
Snappy and Joe;
With all due respect, most of the City’s large pools are in poor areas. For instance, in Brooklyn, you have large pool facilities in Red Hook, Sunset Park, Gowanus, Ocean Hill/Brownsville and there are probably others that I am not aware of.
Snappy, please go look at the park. I’m pretty certain once you see what it is, you will realize it’s not a place most childless grown-ups would care to hang out at. There are fountains and sprinklers, not giant flume rides, water slides and wave pools! You might want to cool off there for a minute, but I doubt you would feel like cavorting for hours in a water play area designed for young kids. I highly doubt anyone will give you grief for hanging out there based on what I saw on the weekend. The reality is you would be bored within minutes. I would have no interest in being there myself without the young ones. And I really hope you don’t feel ripped off not being able to hang out in the sandbox that is intended for kids between the ages of 2 and 5!
And Joe raises an excellent question wrt the placement of new parks with great features. Nevermind that a lot of people in the area may be able to afford to send their kids off to summer camp or 6 Flags. The bottom line is that kids ALL OVER THE CITY should have something fun and safe like this nearby. We constantly ask ourselves and our community leaders what we can do with/for troubled or underprivileged youths to keep them occupied and having a safe and fun place to go to. Why not put something like this in Bed Stuy, ENY, Flatbush, etc…?
I fully understand the reasoning behind sectioning off areas of a park for smaller children. I also am aware that all NYC playgrounds have the ‘no adults without a child’ rule. And it makes sense considering all the perverts out there. I, too, get that opening up the water park to adults without some guidelines may leave the space crowded by adults, thus leaving little or no room for the wee ones. However, I think it’s a bit foolish and short-sighted to ban childless adults from the water park section of Pier 6, if that is in fact the case and if it is in fact an enforced rule. Being the adults that we are, why can’t we trust each other to have enough sense to not hog the water park section to a degree that pushes the wee ones out? Or confront/call the cops on a suspected pervert lurking about? Sure, there’s usually an @sshole in ever bunch with the propensity to destroy things for everyone around, but why preclude childless adults from the space before we get to have the opportunity to re-connect with a sense of child-like innocence and fun? If we as adults abuse the space or prevent the wee ones from having a good, safe time there, then hell yeah, toss us out on our ears. But a preemptive ban? A bit stinky, IMO.
I’m thrilled to see my tax dollars going to creating great parks in Brooklyn but I am so frustrated that these parks only get built in or near fancy neighborhoods. The parks in poor neighborhoods (Bushwick) get heavy use, are marginally maintained and are certainly not getting any major capital improvements. Most of the folks who use Brooklyn Bridge Park can afford to send their kids to summer camp or take their kids to places like 6 Flags. Parents in Bushwick depend on the parks in the neighborhood and probably are not going to spend subway fare and the time to come to a park in a fancy area with better facilities.
Nah. I just think the historic houses on Governors Island should all be razed, and a giant Six Flags built in their place, with a flume and a giant adult water slide right into the harbor.
“so let’s charge kids to enter pier 6 play areas.”
OK by me. As long as I get a cut.
“ENY, I’ll be happy to go to Six Flags and leave this water park entirely to the kids just as soon as they build one on a pier 2 blocks from my house!!”
Well then do what Rob did. Create a support group and protest. No pain, no gain!