Tuesday, April 5, 2011
News Bushwick Park Made Over by Bryant Park Team
Posted by Henry Stewart on Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Maria Hernandez lived on Starr Street until 1989, when the drug dealers she had fought to keep out of her neighborhood park shot her. The seven-acre, Knickerbocker Avenue park was renamed in her honor and, starting last summer, started to undergo changes that are part of what the Daily News calls "the Bryant Park playbook": old garbage cans were replaced with Victor Stanley models (that, presumably, deter rummaging); elaborate flower gardens were planted at all four entrances; yoga classes were started; concerts were sponsored, as well as multilingual theatrical productions. They even brought in movable chairs, though those have since been stolen. "If I had brought moveable seating to Bryant Park in 1980, it might have been too early," the chief planner told the Daily News. "It's a little early. Movable seating will not disappear if you have created an environment that discourages pilferage."
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