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City to Greenpoint: So Sorry About That Unfinished Park
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 30, 2009
Modified Apr 30, 2009
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According to a spiked Times article obtained by New York Shitty, a quiet little Greenpoint waterfront park (okay, it faces Newtown Creek, so we're not sure how much of that front is technically facing "water") was "substantially completed" back in 2007, and yet it's still closed to the public. Before the city started renovating it as a sweetener to the 2005 "condos galore" rezoning plan, this spot at the northernmost tip of Manhattan Avenue was just a humble little dock where locals would go "to fish, to boat, to lunch," according to Christine Holowacz at the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks & Planning. But nobody's been able to use it for years, even though to the untrained eye it looks pretty much complete, with new benches and a kayak launch. The problem is that a railing built to keep residents from falling into the creek and mutating into toxic avengers wasn't up to code, and, well, good parks take time! But now one city official tells the Brooklyn Paper that locals will at last get their park back during the spring: "We apologize. We understand the frustration. But it will just be a little longer."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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