The new sports field at Newtown Barge Park is quite an eyeful. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan
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You can also sit and watch the sunset. I did. It was splendid. But the pictures I took at dusk are prettier than the sunset shots. A dinner-time picnic would be fun at Newtown Barge Park. There are nearby restaurants that would be good places to get a to-go dinner. A promenade was added to imThe Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is a few blocks away on prove public access to the shoreline. Commercial Street. You might want to eat dessert there beThis particular bit of shoreline is the cause if you carry ice cream all the way to the park in this East River, very near where Newtown weather, you could wind up with a drippy mess. Creek empties into it. The park has a lovely swath of lawn, pretty plantings and a fenced-in sports field suitable for baseball and soccer. If you’re at Newtown Barge Park when the weather’s nice, you’ll see the sun glinting on the windows of an adjacent apartment tower whose address is 41 Blue Slip. It’s part of a 22-acre, multi-building shoreline development called Greenpoint Landing that Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group are building. By the way, these developers were also obligated by the 2005 rezoning to construct publicly accessible waterfront space. Last year, they opened a section of that green space. It runs between
Check out Greenpoint’s new waterfront green spaces
Grasses grow in neat rows in the green space outside The Greenpoint. — Continued from page 10INB — The Greenpoint’s developers were required to build the waterfront green space, give it to the city and promise to fund its maintenance. A 2005 rezoning imposed this requirement on developers of the neighborhood’s waterfront sites. By the way, the park outside The Greenpoint is open from dawn until dusk. It’s a tranquil spot to watch the sunset. If you point your camera in the right direction, you’ll be able to include the Empire State Building in your pictures.
A NEW PROMENADE AT NEWTOWN BARGE PARK
The second green space I want to show you is Newtown Barge Park. To get there from The Greenpoint, Here’s the playground equipment outside The Greenpoint. walk inland to Franklin Street and 41 Blue Slip and another tower of theirs, 37 Blue Slip. stroll several blocks north to Commercial Street. Newtown Barge Park was an existing city park. Plans to expand it were made several years ago. SUNRISE, SUNSET, SUNRISE, SUNSET Also by the way, the construction of residential towers marks a new phase in the history of the Greenpoint waterfront. In the 19th century, the area was a shipbuilding mecca. — CONDO FOR SALE — More than a dozen shipbuilding firms moved to the neighbor1 Bedroom Condo For Sale. Fully Renovated, hood from Manhattan in the 1850s, the city Landmarks PreservaStainless Steel Appl. tion Commission’s designation report about the Greenpoint Wood Floors, Washer and Dryer; and Private storage Historic District says. The famous ironclad Civil War vessel, the 102 GUERNSEY ST. Monitor, was made in Greenpoint. Brooklyn, NY 11222 But more about Newtown Barge Park. It’s open from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Asking $549,000 This means you can do outdoor yoga at sunrise — though I Owner: 516-301-8357 don’t have the self-discipline to get up that early, so I don’t have any photos of anything like that. Week of August—1,A2019 • INBROOKLYN — A Special Section of Brooklyn Eagle/HeightsPress/Home Press/HomeReporter/Brooklyn Reporter/BrooklynSpectator/Brooklyn Spectator/BrooklynRecord/Greenpoint Record/Greenpoint Gazette Gazette •• 11INB 11INB Week of August 1–7, 2019 • INBROOKLYN Special Section of Brooklyn Daily Eagle/Brooklyn Eagle/Heights