Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DUMBO

Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan unveiled DOT’s new Plaza Initiative in DUMBO, Brooklyn today. The press conference took place at the Pearl Street Plaza, a triangular pocket park that only a few weeks ago served as a parking lot and illegal dump. This afternoon the Plaza was filled with people eating lunch, taking […]

In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza

By Jason Varone | | 2 Comments
  The Department of Transportation has unveiled plans to turn the gritty Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO into a public plaza. The plaza will be similar to the one DOT creaed on Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn last year. The Triangle currently serves as a parking lot. Some interesting notes about the project: The plaza […]