A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City''s Waterfront
ISBN: 9780231542944
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York N. Y.) -- History; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York -- History;

This book recounts the grassroots effort to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into an urban oasis. The story of Brooklyn Bridge Park also speaks to larger issues confronting all cities, including the development of postindustrial spaces and the ways to balance public and private interests without sacrificing creative vision or sustainable goals.

Nancy Webster is the executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy.

David Shirley is a journalist whose work has appeared in Oxford American , the Brooklyn Rail , Chicago Review , Spin , Rolling Stone , and USA Today .

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