Brooklyn Bridge Park

On my morning walks over the Brooklyn Bridge, I’ve noticed that the Brooklyn Bridge Park has been expanding southward, to the piers beyond Bargemusic and the faux lighthouse with the ice cream parlor inside.

I checked it out the weekend before last, on what Thoreau would call a mizzling day, and found that the park seems bigger when you’re in it. As you can see, there are wild roses and a nice view of the bridge. What you can’t see is how artfully the park is landscaped, and that the developers are planting spartina grass along the shore to create a salt marsh.