Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park is a 85-acre waterfront park opened in 2010, spanning six former shipping piers between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. The site replaced derelict cargo terminals with lawns, sports courts and small beach coves. Pier 6 holds an elaborate playground complex, while Jane's Carousel, a 1922 ride housed in a Jean Nouvel glass pavilion, narrowly survived Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Today visitors walk the continuous Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway promenade, watch East River ferries pass and look across to Lower Manhattan. Beach volleyball, kayak rentals and free outdoor films at Pier 1 draw Brooklyn families through the summer.