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LOCATION
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City: Brooklyn
State: New York
Zip Code: 11201
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Recreation
Status: Project

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Date(s): 1964
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Architect: Myron Goldfinger (1933-2023)
Associate Architect: Karl Linn (1923-2005)
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Brooklyn High-walk Promenade

The project scope is to transform the Myrtle Avenue elevated extension into a Brooklyn High-Walk Promenade with recreational facilities and shops.
The project is designed with noted landscape architect Karl Linn (1923-2005) who is a professor of environmental arts at Long Island University.
The project is presented in an exhibition prepared by Karl Linn that opens in February, 1966 at the Architectural League of New York at 115 East 40th Street. The exhibit features a series of photographs, renderings and area maps.
The project also proposes the rehabilitation of Fort Greene Park at Myrtle Avenue and Cumberland Street.
The transformation of the site is to be phased in stages:
- Immediate creation of festive environment
  Extension of Social Greens
  Stronger separation of pedestrian and vehicular movement
- Limited vehicular access to Willoughby Avenue
  Redirected parking lot traffic
- The building of a parking tower
  Allowing the conversion of asphalt parking lots to social greens

“The dramatic conversion of the bleak, dated elevated line to a new high-walk which would open opportunities for commerce and recreation.”

— “Promenade Is Urged for Myrtle Ave. El.” The New York Times [New York, NY], 20 Feb. 1966.

“The structural supports of the elevated would be covered with colorful collages of advertisements, a delight to the eye as well as the advertiser. The rail platform would be transformed into a boardwalk holding shops and cafes with places for sunbathing as well as sports.”

— Karl Linn in “Promenade Is Urged for Myrtle Ave. El.” The New York Times [New York, NY], 20 Feb. 1966.