The Brooklyn Bridge is defined by its massive stone towers built in the Gothic Revival style, which rise high above the East River to support four thick cables made of thousands of galvanized steel wires. When it opened on May…
Brooklyn Bridge Promenade
Walk across the iconic Brooklyn Bridge to explore historic architecture, 19th-century waterfront warehouses, and beautiful riverside parks.
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1. Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Walkway
2. Anchorage Plaza
Anchorage Plaza is a triangular plot defined by the massive stone masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge. It spans roughly one hundred thousand square feet between Washington and Old Fulton Streets, including a narrow connector known as Ash Alley…
3. DUMBO Manhattan Bridge View
The view of the Manhattan Bridge from the intersection of Washington and Water Streets is defined by the rigid framing of red-brick industrial warehouses on either side. This corridor provides a direct, centered line of sight to the…
4. Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is a curved shoreline made of rounded stones that sits directly against the East River. It is tucked into the Main Street section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, identifiable by the way it frames the water between the steel of the…
5. Jane's Carousel
Jane's Carousel is housed inside a transparent, jewel-box pavilion with retractable glass walls that sits right on the edge of the East River. Built in nineteen twenty-two by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, this antique machine features…
6. Empire Stores
Empire Stores is a long, massive complex of seven interconnected red-brick warehouses that stretches along the East River waterfront. Built between eighteen sixty-eight and eighteen eighty-five, the structure features thick exterior brick…
7. St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse is easily identified by its rugged, two-story brick walls that appear to be a ruin, open to the sky, framing a contemporary glass and steel structure. This building, originally an eighteen-sixties tobacco warehouse,…
8. Fulton Ferry Landing
Fulton Ferry Landing is defined by its custom-designed marine railings that interweave verses from Walt Whitman's poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, with imagery of the Brooklyn Bridge. This waterfront site marks the location of the first…
9. Squibb Park Bridge
The Squibb Park Bridge is a four-hundred-foot steel pedestrian span that zigzags over the deep cut of Furman Street, linking the residential streets of Brooklyn Heights to the waterfront piers of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Named for the…
10. Squibb Park
Squibb Park sits below street level, a quiet playground squeezed beside the massive concrete trench of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The space bears the name of Doctor Edward Robinson Squibb, a nineteenth-century naval surgeon and…