By Gersh Kuntzman
Bridge ‘Park’: The executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy defended the closure the temporary park on Pier 1 for a private fireworks-watching event on July 4.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: Decades of planning will culminate in a small, but usable, Brooklyn Bridge Park by the end of 2009, state planners promised this month — but the same officials admitted that they don’t know when, or if, key parts of the 85-acre open space and condo development will be completed because of a lack of public funding.
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By Jessica Firger
Bridge ‘Park’: The transsexual punk rocker of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” was too racy for state officials, but the ax-wielding psychopath of “The Shining” was just fine for this year’s movie lineup in Empire–Fulton Ferry State Park.
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By Jessica Firger
Bridge ‘Park’: The Floating Pool in the Brooklyn Bridge Park site was cool for swimmers last summer — but this year, the park will make a big splash with art lovers.
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Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Brooklyn Bridge Park, Bob Dylan’s upcoming concert, horse injuries in Prospect Park and Wal-Mart coming to New York.
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By Cristian Fleming
Bridge ‘Park’: Our artist’s weekly take on the issues of the day.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: One of the main design elements of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park is in jeopardy because it could harm underwater life.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: Demolition began — for real, this time — at the proposed “Brooklyn Bridge Park” last week, even as opponents went to court to battle the housing and open space development.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Bridge ‘Park’: Demolition of Brooklyn Bridge ‘Park’ begins.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: Bus them and they will come. Transportation experts went back to the future to find ways to get more people to the remote Brooklyn Bridge Park — the 85-acre open space, commercial and condo development planned for the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront — and what they came up with is straight out of early 20th-century urban planning.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: Suddenly, there’s going to be a supermarket in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Bridge ‘Park’: After more than two decades of planning and numerous delays, construction on the Brooklyn Bridge Park is slated to begin this month.
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