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Where the waterfront
stops being public.
Eleven corridors in Brooklyn and Queens where the shore is interrupted, a connection is still being built, or continuity needs a closer look.
A walk along the water, a protected bicycle route and access to an operating waterfront are three different things. This first-pass study separates them before placing another DataBarge.
Find the missing connection.
Choose a marker or a corridor. Pins locate study areas; they do not trace exact gaps or proposed berths.
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North up · geographic locator, not a navigation chart. Esri World Topographic Map.
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Documented discontinuityPlanned / underwayWorking waterfrontField audit needed
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Begin with two public endpoints.
A floating park becomes a connector only when people can arrive from one public place and leave into another.
01 / COMMUNITY CONNECTION
Dutch Kills + Newtown
Start with NCA’s existing access work. Compare a narrow link, a public deck and a data-bearing module. Let the missing connection set the length and width.
02 / EXISTING PUBLIC PROGRAM
LIC + the marine terminal
Test whether a floating section helps the phasing of an adopted waterfront plan. Coordinate with the City and owners before treating these as available sites.
03 / REDESIGN THE MODULE
Gowanus
Keep the canal in the study, but reduce the section substantially. The current 23 m-wide geometry is a conflict exposed by the model, not a validated solution.
A research shortlist,
ready for a site walk.
This is a desk review of agency, owner and community sources available on October 19, 2026. It is not a complete inventory of every Brooklyn and Queens shoreline, a gate survey, or an accessible-route certification. Southern Brooklyn, Jamaica Bay and much of the northern Queens shoreline need a separate pass.
Markers are approximate corridor locators. No measured gap lengths, parcel rights, public landings or marine clearances are claimed. “DataBarge relevance” and the investigation priorities are our architectural interpretation, separate from each source’s evidence.
The field pass: record each open endpoint, barriers and operating hours; distinguish walking from permitted cycling; photograph the actual discontinuity; identify ownership and easements; then test tides, accessible landings, vessel movement and cleanup operations. Only then draw the linked modules between endpoints.
Recent changes matter: Carroll Street Bridge reopened in June 2026; the Motiva portion of Bushwick Inlet Park opened in summer 2026. Neither is marked here as an unchanged historical closure.
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