Where's the perfect spot to bring some green space to the Southside of Williamsburg? Sigh, above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, apparently. According to the Brooklyn Paper there's one group angling to build a park on a platform above the Robert Moses "masterpiece." Sounds peaceful, no?
Neighborhood groups, St. Nicks Alliance and El Puente, have sponsored a $100,000 feasibility study to figure out the logistics of adding a 1.2-acre concrete platform above the BQE between South 3rd and South 5th Streets. Councilwoman Diana Reyna first proposed the idea in 2005, noting it would link Rodney Park to Marcy Avenue.
Reyna recently told the paper, “In addition to achieving open space, we would be uniting communities that got divided [by the highway]. I don’t want to limit the concept of what could be applied.”
A similar project in Boston was constructed, costing around $75MM—while no estimated cost has been announced for the proposed BQE park just yet, more details are expected to emerge over the next year as the study gets underway.
