The Environmental Education Center at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo opened last week, along with the park area along the river between Jay Street and Main Street in Dumbo. The Environmental Education Center broke ground in September 2014. The center will provide environmental education programs, community meeting space, and free public restrooms. Around the center includes stone seating, a bouldering wall, a new dog run, and expanded lawn space.
NY Times said:
“This area of the park will also include an annex of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum; an Environmental Education Center, to be run by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy; new bathrooms; a rebuilt dog run; a refurbished lawn; and new flower gardens.”
“The Environmental Education Center will be housed in a refurbished park building, at 99 Plymouth Street, that previously belonged to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection.”
“The outpost of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum will have a small space on the ground floor of a 12-story condominium building at 1 John Street, one of the park’s real estate projects. The space was donated by the developer as part of the original agreement with the park corporation.”
Overall, the Dumbo addition adds a huge lawn near the base of the Manhattan Bridge and the John Street section of the park creates space on the waterfront that was previously unaccessible to the public.
Additional photos after the jump.
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