Help Build Brigham Street Park


by on Jul 2nd, 2008

The Sheepshead Bay/Plumb Beach Civic Association has been doing some great work to bring the community a new green space. The Brigham Street Park Project is a community initiative to build a park on Emmons Ave. and Brigham Street in the currently ugly, vacant lot next to the Windjammer hotel and along the water. They’ve already secured grants and permission to do the park, and have also found two architects to help build it – one from nearby Gerritsen Beach. Now SBPB is opening up the planning for community input, with an online survey to make sure the park meets residents’ recreational interests, asking questions about activities, safety and usage. The survey is short, quick and simple. Please take the time to make sure the park is the best it can be. CLICK HERE.

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  • Dana

    Funny picture.. the blue writing across the sky is hard to read. For a second I thought you had the kid saying “weed”.. which is probably correct for the space these days :)

    I’ll take the survey. It would be nice to have some waterfront park space to sit by.

  • http://www.sbpbcivic.org SBPBCivic

    Thanks for the help! We need everyone’s input!

    Slight correction – No money grants secured yet – except for the “grant” from New Yorkers For Parks to design the park for free, and their pledge to help us create a strategic plan for a budget and help find grants. Which of course is like money, but there’s nothing in the coffers (and we’re not looking for anything) until we know what we want to put there.

    Thanks again, and whentaking the survey, be daring and dream big!

  • Steve Barrison,Esq. Pres. BIG

    To anyone concerned,

    As Co-Chair of the Joint Committe for Sheepshead Bay Waterfront Development from 1987-91 we submitted two plans for this parkland during that period. We submitted a third, as Bay Improvement Group, working with the “Casino” boat at that
    time. This is simply negelected parkland that can be improved in many different ways, that can range in cost from as low as $1.5 million to over ten million dollars, depending how elaborate the plans become. We have advocated and submitted now three sets of plans for this site in approximately twenty years. Maybe the fourth will be the charm?
    We always need more park space even in this relatively small area of land, next to Gateway and at the entrance to our Sheeshead Bay Harbor area.

  • Dana

    Funny picture.. the blue writing across the sky is hard to read. For a second I thought you had the kid saying “weed”.. which is probably correct for the space these days :)

    I’ll take the survey. It would be nice to have some waterfront park space to sit by.

  • http://www.sbpbcivic.org/ SBPBCivic

    Thanks for the help! We need everyone’s input!

    Slight correction – No money grants secured yet – except for the “grant” from New Yorkers For Parks to design the park for free, and their pledge to help us create a strategic plan for a budget and help find grants. Which of course is like money, but there’s nothing in the coffers (and we’re not looking for anything) until we know what we want to put there.

    Thanks again, and whentaking the survey, be daring and dream big!

  • Steve Barrison,Esq. Pres. BIG

    To anyone concerned,

    As Co-Chair of the Joint Committe for Sheepshead Bay Waterfront Development from 1987-91 we submitted two plans for this parkland during that period. We submitted a third, as Bay Improvement Group, working with the “Casino” boat at that
    time. This is simply negelected parkland that can be improved in many different ways, that can range in cost from as low as $1.5 million to over ten million dollars, depending how elaborate the plans become. We have advocated and submitted now three sets of plans for this site in approximately twenty years. Maybe the fourth will be the charm?
    We always need more park space even in this relatively small area of land, next to Gateway and at the entrance to our Sheeshead Bay Harbor area.