Cops evacuate sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday due to large, disorderly crowds
Level 1 Mobilization called
An extremely large, disorderly crowd at Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge Park prompted police to call a Level 1 Mobilization and evacuate sections of the park shortly before 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Thousands of park-goers streamed out of the park along the Joralemon Street and Old Fulton Street exits, or headed along Furman Street to Atlantic Avenue. Traffic in Downtown Brooklyn was jammed as emergency vehicles tried to get to the park.
“There were fights, about ten of them,” one young man, who had been playing basketball on Pier 2, told this reporter. Another youth said he thought police had used pepper spray on the crowd, but that was not confirmed. The Brooklyn Eagle has reached out to NYPD for comments.
Linda DeRosa, president of the Willowtown Association, told the Eagle that she became alarmed earlier in the afternoon when she saw massive crowds walking to the park along Joralemon Street.