BROOKLYN
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates placed so much emphasis on universal design in its creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park that the park’s website has a prominent link that details all of the accessible features on its piers and greenway.
The most dramatic piece of universal
design in this 85-acre sustainable waterfront park that stretches 1.3 miles
along Brooklyn’s East River shoreline is the 396-foot-long Squibb Park Bridge,
a pedestrian bridge connecting Squibb Park at the north end of the historic
Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
The 8-foot-wide bridge has gentle
slopes, handrails and dramatic vistas of the Manhattan skyline, Statue of
Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. It zigzags through tall oaks, between buildings
and over a street, descending 30 feet in elevation from its start to endpoint.
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