A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public ... had long been used as a construction staging site and gives locals access to shade trees such as oaks, elms ...
A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public after 15 years — restoring another slice of greenspace for one of the city’s most crowded neighborhoods. The ...
A public space in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge near Chinatown is reopening on Monday, roughly 15 years after it was closed off and used as a construction site. The reopening is the latest ...
Construction on the Verrazzano began ... who represents parts of southern Brooklyn. Decades before the bridge was even a thought, there was another idea to connect the two boroughs.
Improbably, Brooklyn Bridge Park exists ... first Dutch settlement on Governors Island to skyscrapers still under construction. Within that immensity, Van Valkenburgh’s team fashioned pockets ...
The ‘world’s biggest elephant’ helped to raise awareness about the famous bridge’s safety, while also promoting P.T. Barnum’s circus. Following 13 years of construction, New York’s ...