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Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City.Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.
To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s. [388] Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976. [ 389 ]
Empire Stores is a former warehouse complex along the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park within the neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, in the U.S. state of New York. It hosts a food hall and market operated by Time Out New York, [ 1 ] which opened in 2019, [ 2 ] as well as an art gallery called Gallery 55.
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn.. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York.
As part of the construction of Empire Stores at Brooklyn Bridge Park, BHS was selected to operate a 3,200-square-foot (300 m 2) museum to celebrate Brooklyn's industrial history. [12] [13] The BHS Dumbo exhibition space, as it was called, opened in May 2017. [14] In 2020, the BHS made an agreement to merge with the Brooklyn Public Library. [15]
Long-hidden space under Brooklyn Bridge reopens after 15 years — and public is in awe: ‘Huge for the community’ Desheania Andrews, Steve Janoski November 18, 2024 at 6:13 PM
New York approach, 1,562½ feet. Brooklyn approach, 971 feet. Total length of Bridge and approaches, 5,988 feet 6 inches. Height of Towers, 278 feet. Height of Roadway above high water, at towers, 119 feet 3 inches, at centre of span, 135 feet. Width of Bridge, 85 feet, with tracks for cars, roadway for carriages, and walks for foot passengers.
Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch: October 13, 1998: Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburgh Branch (240 Division Avenue) June 15, 1999: Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Engine House (153 2nd Street) October 29, 2019: Brooklyn Trust Company Building (Chemical Bank Building) (177 Montague Street)