OPINION: New park a fitting tribute to Shirley Chisholm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision, announced this week, to name the state park currently under construction in Brooklyn in honor of the late U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm is welcome news.
We are excited about the new park that is being built on former landfill space along Jamaica Bay. When it’s completed next summer, it will include open space along the water, bike paths and educational facilities that will be enjoyed by families from Brooklyn and Queens long into the future.
The potential of the waterfront, its natural resources and view have been ignored for far too long.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.