https://reasonstobecheerful.world/new-york-public-spaces-gotham-park/
"A little while ago, I came across this dark, desolate, barren, empty space
underneath one of our most beloved landmarks, which happens to be the Brooklyn
Bridge. At the time, we were trying to create or find spaces that we could
utilize for our kids. Down in Lower Manhattan, we have enormous density, but we
don’t actually have a lot of open space. So while our population grows, the
space that we can utilize seems to shrink.
When I saw the space, my mind exploded. So I started sniffing around just a
little bit to see:
Hey, what’s up? Why is it all empty? Maybe they’re planning
a park.
They were not planning a park.
I decided to put my stubbornness to good use and see what we could do. When I
started to dig deeper into it, I discovered that there had actually been a park
in some areas of the site before; it had been known as the Brooklyn Banks. It
was like the home of East Coast street-style skateboarding.
I started talking to people who had grown up with that space being their second
home, the place where they could connect with other people — maybe some of them
were misfits and they didn’t didn’t find their people until they found this
place.
It wasn’t just about open space. It was about a park being a place where you
could build community and the supportive infrastructure that helps to propel
you into the person that you want to be."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
