How will the Park affect local neighborhoods?
Neighborhoods will benefit from Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Park will provide badly needed open space, recreation and access to one of the most beautiful and exciting urban waterfronts in the world. Legally-protected view planes, including the special Brooklyn Heights scenic view district, would be respected and enhanced. The proposed design for the park would open up an extraordinary sequence of views of the river, New York Harbor, the Manhattan skyline, surrounding landmarks and of the park itself from one end to the other. None of the structures proposed for Brooklyn Bridge Park would reflect noise into or cast shadows onto surrounding neighborhoods. The Environmental Impact Statement analyzed projected traffic and pedestrian patterns in details. It found no significant adverse impacts on surrounding neighborhoods from additional pedestrian traffic generated by the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, including on Joralemon Street. Though the park would bring some additional vehicles int
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