Snow sculptures bring imaginative critters to Brooklyn Bridge Park
From ‘Tie-Dye Guy’ to Quadropus’
Castles and dragons and octopi, oh my! Roughly 100 snow enthusiasts of all ages gathered at Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park this past Saturday for the park’s first-ever snow sculpture contest, sponsored by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy.
In the family division, kids and parents worked quickly to create snow castles, turtles, cats, dragons, snow Olympians and even an igloo, while adults built snowmen both big and small and even a realistic octopus.
Richard Loyd, Director of Development at Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (BBPC), told the Brooklyn Eagle, “The program staff wanted to do something to extend park use into the winter. It’s been great – we had about 20 family teams and six or seven adults.”
Oliver Sack, age 6, his sister Charlotte, age 3, and their parents decided to build a snow family. “We had a vote on it,” Oliver said. (Charlotte had originally wanted to build a snow pony, but abided with the results of the vote.)