Visions of the Brooklyn Greenway in Metropolis
Wow! The pictures of the proposed greenway along 14 miles of Brooklyn waterfront are pretty darn exciting. Included in a new article by Metropolis magazine, the pictures show bike paths and plantings running through such currently forgotten zones as Flushing Avenue, Navy Street (shown, before and after) and the Carroll Gardens waterfront. As planned, the…
Wow! The pictures of the proposed greenway along 14 miles of Brooklyn waterfront are pretty darn exciting. Included in a new article by Metropolis magazine, the pictures show bike paths and plantings running through such currently forgotten zones as Flushing Avenue, Navy Street (shown, before and after) and the Carroll Gardens waterfront. As planned, the Greenway will stretch from Sunset Park to Greenpoint and will include a 7-foot bike lane, a 10-foot pedestrian path and six feet of landscaping. “I’d venture to say that it is one of the quality of life amenities for this generation,” says Brian McCormick, who formed the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative in 1998. “Brooklyn has the lowest per capita of space in the city. People don’t have opportunities to relive stress or to exercise. We’re creating one of the greatest opportunities to do that.”
Greenscaping Brooklyn’s Waterfront [Metropolis]
Planning Photos [Brooklyn Greenway]
Very cool. The navy yard is too deserted right now (almost a little scary after dark). Would be great to also see the navy yard open to the public…tours of Steiner Studio, etc. A lot of the commercial space in the navy yard is used by artists as studios. Would be nice if there were retail stores where nearby residents could go shopping for arts/craft/furniture, etc.
Gorgeous! This is the kind of urban planning I’d love to see more of.
I’m sure I’ll be shouted down as needlessly nostalgic and anti-development, but there is, to me, something so appealing and wistful about Flushing Ave along the Navy Yard that it will be a (personal, I admit) shame to see rollerbladers and fresh tarmac rolling along past Reliable & Franks and the Navy Yard Bar. It just reminds me of a time in New York where you could walk down a street in an unpopulated neighborhood and feel as if you were making a discovery.
finally! some much needed greens for sunset park.
construction has already started on columbia street. yippee!!
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/pdf/brochures/hwk700a.pdf
Won’t the greenway run through Brooklyn Bridge Park?
The condos mentioned in the post are a concession to the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park, not the proposed Greenway.