Planned Brooklyn waterfront park draws criticism from neighborhood groups.
"When is a park just a glorified front lawn? That's the question behind the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park, a 1.3-mile-long waterfront project overlooking one of the most spectacular views in the world: the glimmering wall of towers that rises across the East River at the tip of Manhattan...We live in an age, sadly, when little public benefit arises before a developer takes a cut...But if the project falls short of the lofty standards set more than a century ago by Frederick Law Olmsted - whose nearby Prospect Park remains one of the great expressions of democratic ideals - it would nonetheless be a major civic asset."
Thanks to Melissa Chow
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