Restler on green space, Bushwick Inlet Park, and resiliency investments

This development will also yield significant green space benefits for our community and strengthen resiliency.

This project is adjacent to Bushwick Inlet Park, a long-promised...

27-acre park that was central promise of the 2005 rezoning.

The vast majority of the park remains unremediated and fenced off.

The mayor visited the future park site with me and told me that he is committed to fulfilling the promise of this park and completing Bushwick Inlet Park.

The developer will be contributing $300,000 annually for the extent of this agreement, which I believe is 99 years, to maintaining and operating Bushwick Inlet Park.

And dedicated funds will go to the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance, a local conservancy group, to help maintain that space.

The project will include more public green space than originally proposed.

The waterfront esplanade will now be 40 feet wide, resulting in a total addition of 52,000 square feet of publicly accessible waterfront space linking Greenpoint directly to the Motiva parcel of Bushwick Inlet Park.

There will also be two new public bathrooms in the East Building for park users and neighbors who just got to go.

And as was promised 20 years ago, the MTA Emergency Response Unit will be relocated, finally, from the promised Box Street Park in the northern tip of Greenpoint to East Williamsburg.

The MTA is going to be responsible for demolishing their building at Box Street Park and paving over that land to make way for the final section of that promised park.

The development will help protect against flooding by building a new bulkhead along the waterfront edge and by building stormwater retention systems to decrease the load on our local sewer systems.

The buildings and the green space will also be built in an elevation to help mitigate inland flooding.