PRESENTATION
Public spaces and green areas within the development
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Jay Valgora describes the various public spaces and green areas incorporated into the Brooklyn Yards development. These elements are designed to provide amenities for residents and the broader community while enhancing the overall urban environment.
- Landscaped pedestrian connection running through the development
- Public plaza areas accessible to the entire community
- Children's playground included in the project
- Use of archways and green plantings to create attractive and functional spaces
Jay Valgora
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We also created, which is hopefully coming up next slide, a series of public spaces or green areas.
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So this includes in this view here from 61st Street You can really see the character and scale of the walk ups.
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It's really inspired by Brooklyn housing types with stoop gardens, trees, individual buildings, and we're using different characters and different materials to break down the scale and really make it fit into the community like classic Brooklyn housing.
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Next slide.
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Here, you can see a view, and the fence is a little unusual.
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We're asked to add this into some of the views.
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I find it, you know, a little bit striking.
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But basically, you can see how it's built over the rail cut.
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And if you go to the next slide, hopefully, we'll show, yes.
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This is really a landscape green area.
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That's just a pedestrian connection that leads through it for the use of the residents, and it provides a place for, you know, people to take children or take your bikes.
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But it really provides a kind of a green area that connects through the development and makes a kind of a link between all the different components.
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Next slide.
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This is a view from that green area, and I think the next one shows it again.
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We added the fence because there were questions I see.
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Just to make sure that, you know, that it would be safe.
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But really, we're using landscape plantings and green plantings in order to create a buffer in a screen.
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But we think it's very important.
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And this really would be the equivalent of a real yard condition.
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So it was also important for us in order to create a series of garden elements here for the housing.
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And the next slide.
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And then finally, the access to that is provided through these series of our choice.
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This is a view from new Utrecht.
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Where you can see we created these beautiful series of archways that would kind of create the link into this, as well as on the left, we created additional public access area.
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That's a plaza actually that we've created working with our landscape architects to create public and open areas to also create greater amenities for the neighborhood that would be open to the entire public.
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Next.
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And then this is a view on the other end, again, showing that passage leading through.
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We also included an additional public area for children's playground, which we thought very important for this community also.
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And again, green spaces that would actually link the different buildings together and fit them into the community.
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Next.
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And then we have the most actions, which maybe Rachel can take us too.
