When will this view be yours?

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2007 or 2008, if you can believe the good folks at NYC Parks and NYC Economic Development Corporation. At a public meeting of Community Board 1's Waterfront Committee, the city showed a conceptual design for the Greenpoint Avenue park (a/k/a the WNYC transmitter site).

The plan includes a trippy pier, a naturalistic shoreline, a snack shop, a lot for children's activities, a sloped lawn, and a waterfront esplanade stretching two blocks between the south end of the park and Java Street. Permitting is expected to take at least a year and additional money may be needed to execute the design. It may be possible for a water taxi dock to be built off of the proposed pier.

As a final note, NYC Dept. of Parks says that interim access to the site is not possible because of "numerous trip hazards" which are apparently not visible in this picture.

Image courtesy Bridge & Tunnel Club