Brooklyn Bridge Park : A Dying Waterfront Transformed by Joanne Witty
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Author: Joanne Witty
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 03 Oct 2016
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780823273577
File size: 24 Mb
File Name: Brooklyn.Bridge.Park.A.Dying.Waterfront.Transformed.pdf
Download Link: Brooklyn Bridge Park A Dying Waterfront Transformed
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Brooklyn Bridge Park has emerged as an internationally recognized attraction. Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's great harbors and a storied skyline, it has utterly transformed a strip of moribund structures that formerly served bustling port activity. When the idea was put forward, it did not come from government officials or planners, but from a local community aghast that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey might sell the defunct piers and their upland, situated below the quiet precincts of Brooklyn Heights, for intensive housing development. Neighborhood leaders, looking for less intensive uses of the property, ultimately came to the idea of a park. The Port Authority resisted, seeing a park as a money-losing proposition, as did the once powerful longshoremen's union, which was desperate to hold onto jobs. The battle was waged inconclusively for well over a decade; the Port Authority was prevented from developing the site, but the park did not move forward, either.
Then, locally elected officials joined with members of the local communities to form something called a Local Development Corporation (LDC) to explore how the Port Authority might be induced at last to shed its money-losing waterfront piers in favor of a park. The LDC turned to the communities themselves and carried out an open process of public planning, a democratic process that became a model for other public projects but that was unique in its day. That process produced a plan, and that plan ultimately produced a park. In this book, the authors have tried to tell the full story of how Brooklyn Bridge Park came to be, from the inside deliberations as well as the public actions. They have tried to be complete and factual. One of the people interviewed told them that all history is revisionist to some extent, and they do have a point of view on many of the issues discussed, but they have tried to keep each other honest and to reflect all the competing views.
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