OPINION: Make Cadman Plaza Park into a Brooklyn destination
During the Labor Day weekend, I met some friends from Brooklyn and Manhattan at the Park Plaza Diner, followed by a small gathering in Cadman Plaza Park.
This is the park that more or less provides an eastern boundary to Brooklyn Heights above Montague Street. The significant thing is that it serves as a convenient meeting place when people from Brooklyn meet others from Manhattan.
The park is convenient to both the A/C train, which has a station across the street, and the 2/3 train, which has a station a few blocks away at the St. George Hotel. Connected to it on the south is Columbus Park, containing two of most important civic buildings in the borough – Borough Hall and the state Supreme Court building. The northern part is often traversed by tourists and others who walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.