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The first phase of Prospect Park’s Lakeside restoration project – a new “Music Island” to replace the one destroyed in 1960 for the construction of the former Wollman Skating Rink – will be dedicated on Friday, Oct. 19. … Full Article

A large video cube temporarily installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park is part of an American Express video contest promoting the opening of Barclays Center. Two winners will meet Nets player Deron Williams, if available, and watch a Nets game from the American Express Vault Suite. … Full Article

The Parks Department is installing free Wi-Fi (wireless Internet) in Downtown Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza Park for users of computers and other smart devices. … Full Article

An official of Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday responded to recent criticism, spotlighted in a Brooklyn Paper article called “Yards in the Park,” of the fact that there will be small, fenced-off enclosures outside three of the five structures that are to be built on the uplands of Pier 1. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bridge Park is really coming along. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bridge Park is a very different place, in both larger and smaller elements, since the first “American Landscape” plan in the form of a Harbor Park, sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Association and designed by Terry Schnadelbach, was presented in 1988. … Full Article

A developer is being sought for the long-vacant Empire Stores on the waterfront in DUMBO, according to Regina Myer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp. … Full Article

June Marcus grew up in Bensonhurst, but, as a teenager, she would often ride her bicycle along the Shore Road Promenade from Bay Parkway to the 69th Street Pier. The stunning views of the Lower Manhattan skyline took her breath away. … Full Article

Peter Flemming has been one of the staunchest supporters of Brooklyn Bridge Park from the inception of the idea. … Full Article

A former member of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council insists that she did not exploit her position to steer a controversial $40-million cycling racetrack to the waterfront development, but some of the council’s roughly two dozen members are considering tweaking the group’s by-l … Full Article