Bensonhurst Park, cut by Belt Parkway, is now revived
From brooklyneagle.com
On Tuesday, local elected officials, community leaders and Parks Department brass officially cut the ribbon on the reconstructed Bensonhurst Park Playground on Cropsey Avenue, a seaside park that is cut in half by the Belt Parkway.
The park, which has not been renovated since the 1980s and previously showed evidence of deterioration, dates back to the 1890s. At that time, the City of Brooklyn purchased around 16 acres from the Benson and Lynch families for a total of $88,000. Two smaller parcels were later acquired by condemnation in 1924 and 1944. Bensonhurst Park is one of 26 parks that are crossed by the parkway.