» Brooklyn Bridge Park

GEE was the ecological designer for the Brooklyn Bridge Park team, led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. The park, currently under construction, stretches along 1.3 miles of post-industrial East River waterfront in Brooklyn, New York.

The plan for the 86-acre park includes the establishment of numerous native habitats, including vegetated dunes, coastal forest, shrub land, tidal pools, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, oyster beds, and an urban successional habitat island. In addition, GEE designed a small coastal forest and recommended the use of cedar stumps as fish breeding habitat in the harbor. A number of the wetlands and upland areas are located upon abandoned shipping piers, requiring novel approaches to ecosystem design.

Project Details:
Year: September 2005-present
Acreage: 85 Acres (1.3 miles of coastline)
Client: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation
Location: Brooklyn, NY