Brooklyn Bridge Park To Get $1.5M In Capital Funds From Borough President

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Bridge Park is set to get a $1.5 million upgrade as part of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' $7.7 million in capital funds for 11 of the borough's green spaces.

The funding is expected to help bring Brooklyn Bridge Park to full completion, and Eric Landau, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, is thankful for the influx of cash.

"We are grateful to Borough President Adams for his generous capital support for the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza project in this year’s budget," Landau said in a statement. "This allocation helps bring us closer to our fundraising goal and to ultimately bringing Brooklyn Bridge Park to 100 percent completion."

Adams made the announcement at Harold Ickes Playground in Red Hook, which will get a million dollars to turn the neglected concrete space into a BMX bike and skate park along with a community space.

The money at Brooklyn Bridge Park will help create two additional acres of park land that will run in Dumbo through the area's southern piers. The park space will also host cultural markets, ice skating and other year-round activity, Landau said.

Here's a list of parks getting money for the 2018 fiscal year:

• Harold Ickes Playground, Red Hook - $1 million
• Fort Greene Park, Fort Greene - $1 million
• Brooklyn Bridge Park, Downtown Brooklyn - $1.5 million
• Prospect Park - $1 million
• Shirley Chisolm Community Center in Tilden Playground, East Flatbush - $1 million
• Bildersee Playgrounds, Flatlands - $1 million
• Wingate Park, East Flatbush - $500,000
• Bridge Plaza Community Garden, Downtown Brooklyn - $250,000
• Paerdegat Park, East Flatbush - $250,000
• Thomas J. Cuite Park, Windsor Terrace - $100,000
• Tree plantings along Rogers Avenue, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens - $100,000

Article image Marc Torrence, Patch