Brooklyn Heights residents looking to spend the spring and summer months at the piers that will eventually become the Brooklyn Bridge Park will have to find somewhere else to go.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy was supposed to create temporary recreational uses for the site while construction takes place. However, according to the Daily News, the group has taken that idea off the table. Group officials say the city gave them $500,000 to create interim recreational uses, but so far the proposals have been rejected. Park officials say they explored several uses for the site but determined they could interfere with the construction of the park.
Park advocates are upset that Brooklyn residents still do not have access to the piers four years after the construction was approved. The 1.3-mile long park is set to be completed in 2010. Meanwhile, a group of Brooklyn Heights activists are suing to stop construction because they oppose plans for luxury apartments.