OPINION: Brooklyn Strand: A welcome development
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to redo 21 acres of underused green space from Borough Hall to Brooklyn Bridge Park into a “spiffy linear park,” reported on by Brooklyn Daily Eagle Real Estate Editor Lore Croghan, is a continuation of a series of proposals put forth by the Brooklyn Tech Triangle Coalition last year.
De Blasio’s terminology for this stretch of green space, Brooklyn Strand, was also used by Tucker Reed, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, in a speech before the coalition last June that this writer covered.
Indeed, as Croghan has reported, a spokesman for de Blasio told the Eagle, “In some cases, as it regards the existing projects, we’re funding them for the first time in our budget with our capital plan, so that’s our stamp on it.”