New section of Brooklyn Bridge Park opens – with 3 soccer fields
The press conference to announce the new sports fields at Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, at the foot of Joralemon Street, on Thursday morning clearly wasn’t an ordinary one.
Not only politicians and the news media but large crowds of Cobble Hill residents were there. And in the background, soccer players from the New York Red Bulls, the New York metropolitan area’s professional soccer team, were practicing.
Thanks to a $26 million development project, the pier, one of several former Port Authority shipping piers on the Brooklyn waterfront, is now home to three multi-purpose sports fields and an adjacent picnic peninsula. This is just the latest section of the park to open since the first section, at Pier 1 near Fulton Ferry Landing, opened in 2010.