Community Board 1 hears a pitch Nov. 12 for an accessible, artist-designed water feature in Cooper Park
Julie Torres Moskovitz and Sarah Sheffield present 'Cool by Design,' a water feature and shade structure, to the board's Parks & Waterfront Committee at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Bushwick Inlet Park Office, 86 Kent Ave. The meeting is open to the public.
Community Board 1 hears a pitch Nov. 12 for an accessible, artist-designed water feature in Cooper Park
Julie Torres Moskovitz and Sarah Sheffield present 'Cool by Design,' a water feature and shade structure, to the board's Parks & Waterfront Committee at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Bushwick Inlet Park Office, 86 Kent Ave. The meeting is open to the public.
Julie Torres Moskovitz and Sarah Sheffield will present “Cool by Design,” a proposed accessible, artist-designed water feature and shade structure for Cooper Park, at a Brooklyn Community Board 1 Parks & Waterfront Committee meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, November 12, at the Bushwick Inlet Park Office, 86 Kent Avenue, between North 9th and North 10th streets.
The board’s notice does not say what organization, if any, the presenters represent. Julie Torres Moskovitz, whose surname the notice spells “Moscovitz,” appeared before the board’s Transportation Committee in February with Paul Kelterborn of Friends of Cooper Park to walk members through a public-realm plan for Memorial Gore, the small park on Maspeth Avenue, according to the board’s March minutes. The committee voted unanimously to tell the city Department of Transportation it supports “the proposal presented by Friends of Cooper Park” for a pedestrian plaza there.
The presentation is the second item on the committee’s agenda for the evening. The meeting notice describes the project as an accessible, artist-designed water feature and shade structure for Cooper Park.
Cooper Park , a 6.4-acre park bounded by Maspeth Avenue, Sharon Street, Olive Street and Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, has two spray showers, one of them in the Margaret Carnegie…
