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March 13, 2005
Thinking Out of the Box: A Museum in Brooklyn Bridge Park
When I lived in Philadelphia as a kid (from age 9 to 14) we lived in a large apartment complex called Park Towne Place. It had four 19-story buildings (it was NOT in a park). It was about a half-mile walk to the Art Museum in one direction, and the Franklin Institute (http://www.franklininstitute.org) in the other direction. My family had a membership that permitted us to go any time. So we went all the time. In fact, at the Franklin Institute they have an exhibit called the working heart. You could walk through a heart and see how it worked. My younger brother and I would walk through that exhibit all the time. It was a fun museum. In San Francisco, they have the Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu), which is a hands on museum. What Brooklyn Bridge Park needs, in place of those horrible “town houses” on Furman Street, is a museum like this to bring in not only the community, but all of Brooklyn and New York. It can be a great field trip for schools, and it will make money for the park! You may be asking , "what's the downside?" There is none!
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New Brooklyn Bridge Park Pictures
Here are a few more pictures of the new plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park. The purple roadway type section is a cycling path. This will also fit into the Brooklyn Greenway Project. The small island type area next to the Brooklyn Yacht Club (at least that’s what I like to call it) is an island for birds and other wildlife. The idea is to create something in the park that is free from human interference. This is a nice new addition.
The glass like structure at the end of pier 5 is shown below. The idea is that it is an indoor soccer/recreational field. The design permits heating in the winter and natural cooling in the summer. A lot of people wonder about this structure. If it works, then it’s a nice new addition. There should be more things like this in the park.
The next workshop is Saturday March 19th.
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