LETTER: Brooklyn Bridge Park is too small to accommodate velodrome
Everything is always relative. Central Park might also “easily accomodate” a nearly 2-acre, five- or six-story velodrome; as might Prospect Park or Kissena Park or Van Cortlandt Park or Pelham Bay Park. Much more easily, as a matter of fact, than Brooklyn Bridge Park, which has but 73 acres of dry land or pier surface, almost 9 acres of which will be consigned to revenue-generating private housing, a hotel and retail/office. And another half acre will be given to a private, non-revenue-generating theater.
But should any of our city’s parks be required to “accommodate” a privately operated spectator-sport arena? Or a venue for a sport so rare in the United States that until this winter there were only two other indoor velodromes in the country, and now, with the closure of the Boulder arena, only one?
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