Community Vision for the Brooklyn Strand Revealed

In July 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a series of initiatives meant to further the successful growth of Downtown Brooklyn into a thriving, 21st century Downtown. Among those was an opportunity to “Reinvent the Brooklyn Strand”—by connecting Downtown Brooklyn to its waterfront through a reimagined series of disconnected parks, plazas and greenways between Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Bridge Park that have enormous potential to become the great promenade and gateway