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Presentation: Brooklyn Bridge Park Transportation and Access Study

The traffic engineers conducting the Brooklyn Bridge Park Transportation and Access Study will present their preliminary findings at this public meeting. The study, which included important public input, reviewed transit options to-and-from the park such as bicycle/pedestrian improvements, bus route modifications and vertical connections.

By Aaron Donovan

8:15 PM EDT on March 19, 2007

The Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront LDC is a community-based local development corporation created in 1998 to initiate planning efforts on the park. DBWLDCâ€™s efforts resulted in the 2000 Illustrative Master Plan, which helped secure a $150 million financial commitment from the City and State to build the park. The study is made possible through $1 million from the US Department of Transportation that was secured by Congresswoman Nydia M. VelÃ¡zquez (D-NY), who represents the communities that surround the new park.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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