Nicolai Ouroussoff writes: "Much as Central Park embodied Frederick Law Olmsted's vision of American democracy on the eve of the Civil War, Brooklyn Bridge Park, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, is an attempt to come to terms with the best and worst of our era."Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
"It takes a serious imaginative effort to picture what the park will look like when its entire 65 acres, stretching from just north of the Brooklyn Bridge south to Atlantic Avenue, are complete — a process that will take years."Photo: John Lei for The New York Times
"The first thing I noticed was its immensity: even with only 5 of the 65 acres complete, it felt roomy."Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
"A small playground, set at the park's northernmost corner and dotted with small stainless-steel climbing domes, offers a view up toward the gently arching underbelly of the Brooklyn Bridge."Photo: John Lei for The New York Times
"The softness of this landscape is played off against a number of small wild gardens peppered with sweet-gum trees and dogwood shrubs."Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
"It is a key and very promising early step in a larger project that includes the greening of the East River waterfront in Manhattan and a park for Governors Island, and which may well turn out to be Michael R. Bloomberg's most important legacy as mayor of New York."Photo: John Lei for The New York Times
"The construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park will be an enormous achievement. And assuming that the other harbor parks go forward, the project as a whole will radically alter the character of the city, not only by making it greener but also by reorienting it toward the life of the harbor."Photo: John Lei for The New York Times
"It is as optimistic an undertaking as any the city has undertaken since Robert Moses’s monumental postwar highway projects — and better for our lungs."Photo: John Lei for The New York Times
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