When Will de Blasio See the Light on Parks? Like every successful New York hangout, Brooklyn Bridge Park is jammed. Long before it’s finished, before the wavy meadows open on Pier 6 later this summer or Bjarke Ingels’s swooping lookout is built, before a hilly upland stretch has even been contoured and before towers rise on its edge, the park has already started to shape childhood memories. Though the young greenery still has that fragile, uncertain look, every basketball court is in use, every lawn dotted with people irradiating their semi-naked bodies... ... Worst of all, the park shares the shore with several big, clunky buildings that justify themselves by funding its upkeep. The final additions to the waterfront skyline will be a pair of dull towers by ODA that too obviously recycle the area’s industrial muscle. Visible across the harbor, they demand more enterprising designs. But architecture would not mollify the neighbors who condemn what they see as the unholy marriage of real-estate interests and the public realm!!! Read the whole article at the link below! Ready for July 30? Happiest Thursday All! Lori