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A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City’s Waterfront

With Nancy Webster, executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and journalist David Shirley.

This illustrated lecture recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn’s defunct piers into a beautiful urban oasis.











When: Wed., Feb. 1, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
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With Nancy Webster, executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and journalist David Shirley.

This illustrated lecture recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn’s defunct piers into a beautiful urban oasis.

Buy tickets/get more info now