New head of North Brooklyn Parks Alliance speaks about issues facing area’s green spaces
BY TREY STRANGE
GREENPOINT — It can be tough to manage a park. Taking care of one requires maintenance, repairs and a whole lot of gardening and weeding. And opening a park can cost millions from both the government and private donations — take, for example, Williamsburg’s new Domino Park, which opened last June after an investment of $50 million by Two Trees, a DUMBO-native developer.
If it’s difficult to maintain just one park, as most conservancy projects do, then the work North Brooklyn Parks Alliance does might just be crazy. The nonprofit is the only one in the city that oversees an entire area of green spaces — all of the parks across the nearly five square miles of Greenpoint and Williamsburg — and raises funds to supplement city funding.