Ideas for the Brooklyn Strand include a permanent home for Smorgasburg
Imagine a new home for Smorgasburg or a revamped Brooklyn War Memorial at Cadman Plaza Park with better lighting, bathrooms and more public programming. These were some of the ideas community members brainstormed during a Community Board 2 (CB2) meeting that focused on the Brooklyn Strand at the Ingersoll Recreational Center in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday.
The Brooklyn Strand is the nickname for the 116-acre swatch of parks and public spaces between Borough Hall and Brooklyn Bridge Park in Downtown Brooklyn that the city hopes to redesign. The idea behind the Brooklyn Strand initiative is to make the area easier for pedestrian traffic and better connected to the surrounding neighborhoods.
“The Brooklyn Strand initiative represents a tremendous opportunity for all of us here to come together to really shape what the future of this area is going to be,” said Alan Washington of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, one of the groups in charge of reimagining the space. “This is important not because it is something that we will benefit from today. It’s important because it’s going to benefit the future generations that will be here for many years to come.”