Details About a BBP Bridge
Popular Mechanics had an article, as well as the renderings above (click to enlarge), about the 396-foot-long Squibb Park Bridge, which will connect the Promenade to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Plans for the pedestrian walkway sound extremely cool: “From Squibb Park, the bridge will zigzag gracefully through a clutch of tall oaks, between buildings and over…
Popular Mechanics had an article, as well as the renderings above (click to enlarge), about the 396-foot-long Squibb Park Bridge, which will connect the Promenade to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Plans for the pedestrian walkway sound extremely cool: “From Squibb Park, the bridge will zigzag gracefully through a clutch of tall oaks, between buildings and over a street, descending 30 feet in elevation from its starting point to its endpoint in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Supported by poured-concrete pillars and suspended by steel cables, the primary construction material will be 6- and 10-inch-diameter pieces of Robinia pseudoacacia, or black locust, a tree found widely in the Southeast but also prevalent in forests of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.” The project is supposed to be done by next summer, according to the article.
A New Brooklyn Bridge—This Time Made of Trees [Popular Mechanics]
Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge to be Made of Wood [BHB]
Bridge Will Connect Heights to Park [Eagle]
Of course there are many in Brooklyn Heights who have been fighting any attempt to link their neighborhood to the new park in order to keep the promenade more “private.”
promenade, I love BBP, too. I was actually surprised when I walked home via the Bridge and Promenade last night that there doesn’t seem to have been much progress lately. Anyway, fair enough that you – or anyone – don’t like the aesthetic design of the Squibb Park Bridge – but I don’t see how a third way to access the park can be a bad thing.
I foolishly walked along BBP at dusk once, was totally isolated down there, and was very uncomfortable that I had to walk all the way to Joralemon before I could get off Furman Street. I would have been very happy to have a means to get to the promenade. Perhaps I wouldn’t feel so isolated were the entire park open, but I still say the more avenues of ingress/egress the better.
@CGar – LOVE the park – just don’t like this design nor do I think it necessary is all.
YES promenade!!! im happy to see someone is in agreeance.
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eh… kinda cheesy. would have been much nicer to keep it simple. like this it winds up look like first year design student barf.
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Glass half empty much, promenade? Sheesh!
I think the design is anything but ‘cool’. It seems like a unattractive design and I must add that a bridge attached to this park, so close to the other entrance, makes no sense. By the time you wonder down the ramp to Squibb and then take the bridge over, you could have been at the park already. If this bridge is to “enhance” the look of the park – I’d say they flunked.
Looks terrific. Hopefully it won’t end up having those horrible fences to deter jumpers like the manhattan bridge.
As I posted in Tuesday Blogwrap, the bridge design looks very cool, and I think it’s great that they’re connecting Squibb Park and the Promenade to BBP. Not to mention it will be nice to have another means to access BBP other than Fulton and Atlantic.