Set atop two landfills that had restricted visual and physical access to Jamaica Bay, the 407-acre park helps visitors enjoy the site’s natural beauty with elements of ecological restoration.
Revamping the pedestrian connection between Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 began with the removal of the existing wood and steel structure, situated between ten- and six-story buildings above a below-grade parking facility and extending into an active park.
The largest facility of its type in Brooklyn, the 400,000-sq-ft ambulatory care center houses 12 state-of-the-art operating rooms with specialty video systems, associated private pre-/post-op rooms for outpatient procedures, central sterile and scope processing facilities, a cancer center with a compounding pharmacy, and specialty areas for cardiology, orthopedics and imaging.
A 1.1-mile bridge carrying 160,000 vehicles per day on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through an industrial district—and over a long-polluted waterway—might not be the first place to look for green design and construction approaches.
Deep under the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens is a water tunnel waiting for the water to be turned on. Actually, it is waiting for money to flow.
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