[
  {
    "id": "box-street",
    "name": "Box Street / Newtown mouth",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Greenpoint · Commercial Street waterfront",
    "lat": 40.7382,
    "lon": -73.9567,
    "type": "funded",
    "status": "Construction underway · October 2026",
    "gap": "A missing waterfront connection between adjoining esplanades at the northern tip of Greenpoint.",
    "evidence": "The City broke ground on Box Street Park on October 1, 2026. It says the park will connect waterfront esplanades to its east and west, with completion expected by late summer 2028.",
    "routes": "The shore connection is under construction. Street access is a separate route; a future esplanade does not establish a through cycling route.",
    "implication": "Coordinate with the funded park. Investigate residual gaps beyond its boundaries before proposing a floating connector here. Our Newtown model has not established two public endpoints.",
    "next": "Overlay the park contract boundary, adjoining public-access easements and the Manhattan Avenue street end.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NYC Mayor’s Office · October 1, 2026",
        "url": "https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/10/after-decades-of-delays--mayor-mamdani-announces-greenpoint-s-bo"
      }
    ],
    "model": "newtown"
  },
  {
    "id": "north-henry",
    "name": "North Henry Street / Nature Walk edge",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Greenpoint · North Henry Street end",
    "lat": 40.7368,
    "lon": -73.9449,
    "type": "audit",
    "status": "Community proposal · current gates need checking",
    "gap": "An opportunity to connect an underused street end with the wider Nature Walk and Kingsland Wildflowers network.",
    "evidence": "Newtown Creek Alliance identifies a city-owned street end with 340 feet of shoreline and proposes public space and wetland restoration. The proposal is not proof that a continuous route has opened.",
    "routes": "Check the transition between the street end and existing public paths. DEP prohibits bicycle riding in the Nature Walk, so walking access alone does not solve the bike connection.",
    "implication": "Investigate a small ecological access link with NCA and DEP. The current 23 m-wide DataBarge is not a demonstrated fit for this tributary.",
    "next": "Walk the gates and edge, document permitted hours, and identify a cycle route outside the Nature Walk.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NCA · North Henry Street proposal",
        "url": "https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/north-henry-street/"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYC DEP · Nature Walk access rules",
        "url": "https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/environment/newtown-creek-nature-walk.page"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "dutch-kills",
    "name": "Dutch Kills / proposed loop",
    "borough": "Queens",
    "area": "Long Island City · Borden Avenue, 29th Street, Montauk Cutoff",
    "lat": 40.7415,
    "lon": -73.9387,
    "type": "documented",
    "status": "Documented discontinuity · May 2026 field report",
    "gap": "Public street ends and small restoration sites do not form a continuous route around Dutch Kills.",
    "evidence": "NCA’s May 2026 walking report describes limited public shoreline access near 29th Street, a prospective connection along the MTA-owned Montauk Cutoff, and an existing pocket park at Borden Avenue.",
    "routes": "The proposed Dutch Kills Loop would connect separated pieces. Neither a continuous waterside walk nor a parallel cycleway is established by that proposal.",
    "implication": "A strong first corridor for a community-led connection study. Test short, narrow links and habitat edges before applying the full data-center section.",
    "next": "With NCA, identify two accessible endpoints and check rail ownership, navigation, bridge operations and remediation access.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NCA · May 15, 2026 walking report",
        "url": "https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/walking-tour-report-walking-dutch-kills/"
      },
      {
        "title": "NCA · proposed Dutch Kills Loop",
        "url": "https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/supportdkl/"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "maspeth",
    "name": "Plank Road / Maspeth industrial bank",
    "borough": "Queens",
    "area": "Maspeth · 58th Road street end and adjoining Newtown Creek shore",
    "lat": 40.725,
    "lon": -73.9277,
    "type": "documented",
    "status": "Isolated access nodes · intervening parcels need audit",
    "gap": "Street-end access along an industrial bank, rather than a connected shoreline promenade.",
    "evidence": "NCA documents public-access and restoration work at Plank Road, at the end of 58th Road. Its watershed access inventory describes limited official access and a network of street ends.",
    "routes": "Treat Plank Road as a waterfront destination reached by streets. A public right to walk or cycle along the adjoining industrial shoreline has not been established.",
    "implication": "Useful for a chain-of-public-nodes strategy. A short link must solve a real endpoint pair rather than simply add another isolated deck.",
    "next": "Identify a second public endpoint, then trace waterfront ownership and active loading areas between it and Plank Road.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NCA · Plank Road",
        "url": "https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/plank-road/"
      },
      {
        "title": "NCA · access inventory",
        "url": "https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/greenspaces-and-street-ends/"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "onelic",
    "name": "Gantry / Anable Basin / Queensbridge",
    "borough": "Queens",
    "area": "Long Island City · East River waterfront",
    "lat": 40.7499,
    "lon": -73.9538,
    "type": "funded",
    "status": "Adopted plan · future connection",
    "gap": "The waterfront between Gantry Plaza and Queensbridge Park remains a connection project, with development parcels and the Con Edison edge involved.",
    "evidence": "OneLIC was approved in November 2025. The Council describes a future continuous public waterfront and a Con Edison easement process, with a published construction-completion target of 2033. That target is not confirmation of interim milestones.",
    "routes": "A future public waterfront plan does not yet supply an open promenade or guarantee a continuous cycleway. Audit existing street alternatives separately.",
    "implication": "A strong strategic connection case, but already part of an official plan. Explore an interim or complementary section only with the City and waterfront owners.",
    "next": "Obtain the current waterfront-access plan, easement boundaries and construction phasing before choosing endpoints.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NYC Council · OneLIC approval and waterfront timeline",
        "url": "https://council.nyc.gov/julie-won/one-lic/"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "ravenswood",
    "name": "Ravenswood generating-station edge",
    "borough": "Queens",
    "area": "Queensbridge Park toward the Roosevelt Island Bridge",
    "lat": 40.7596,
    "lon": -73.9464,
    "type": "working",
    "status": "Operating energy waterfront · long-term study",
    "gap": "A major shoreline interruption at the power-generating station; the inland Vernon Boulevard corridor serves a different function.",
    "evidence": "The Queens Borough President’s Reimagine Ravenswood report considers a long-term elevated waterfront path linking Queensbridge Park through the generating-station edge, subject to operating and safety constraints.",
    "routes": "An inland route is not continuous access to the river. Verify the current bike-lane configuration before describing any cycling break.",
    "implication": "Potential energy-sector partner relevance, but a difficult first public-access pilot. Public decks must be compatible with an operating plant.",
    "next": "Discuss waterfront operating envelopes and security with the owner before drawing a connection through the site.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Queens Borough President · Reimagine Ravenswood, p. 53",
        "url": "https://www.queensbp.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/reimagine-ravenswood-full-report-1.pdf"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "navy-yard",
    "name": "Navy Yard / Wallabout Bay",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Between the Williamsburg and DUMBO waterfronts",
    "lat": 40.7058,
    "lon": -73.9755,
    "type": "working",
    "status": "Working shipyard · inland cycle connection exists",
    "gap": "The operational shipyard interrupts a public route directly along the water.",
    "evidence": "The Navy Yard’s resilience strategy treats the working waterfront as a primary design constraint. Brooklyn Greenway Initiative records the completion of the Flushing Avenue bike path in December 2021.",
    "routes": "This is a shore-access break, not a missing Flushing Avenue bike connection. Keep the functioning inland bypass in the analysis.",
    "implication": "Low priority for an independent floating bypass. A project here would need to serve the Yard’s maritime operations and public-access strategy.",
    "next": "Map berths, vessel approaches and public entry points with the Yard; compare any proposal against the existing inland route.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Brooklyn Navy Yard · climate resilience strategy, p. 56",
        "url": "https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/climateResilienceStrategy.pdf"
      },
      {
        "title": "BGI · Flushing Avenue completion record",
        "url": "https://www.brooklyngreenway.org/greenway-updates/"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "marine-terminal",
    "name": "Columbia waterfront / Atlantic Basin",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Brooklyn Marine Terminal · northern Red Hook",
    "lat": 40.6889,
    "lon": -74.0052,
    "type": "working",
    "status": "Port redevelopment plan · not an open connection",
    "gap": "An active marine-terminal edge separates waterfront destinations along the Columbia Street and Red Hook shoreline.",
    "evidence": "NYCEDC’s approved 2025 vision proposes new public waterfront space and a greenway connection between Brooklyn Bridge Park and Atlantic Basin. The project remains in planning and environmental review.",
    "routes": "The inland greenway and a future waterside connection are distinct. A path cannot be assumed across active berths or port-controlled land.",
    "implication": "Worth a port-partner conversation because access and infrastructure are already being reconsidered. It is not an available berth simply because the shore is inaccessible.",
    "next": "Compare the terminal vision’s public-space phasing with navigation, freight and cruise operations.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NYCEDC · Brooklyn Marine Terminal project",
        "url": "https://edc.nyc/project/brooklyn-marine-terminal"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYCEDC · environmental review",
        "url": "https://edc.nyc/brooklyn-marine-terminal-environmental-review"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "gowanus",
    "name": "Gowanus / parcel-to-parcel esplanades",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Canal head, bridge approaches and adjoining development parcels",
    "lat": 40.6796,
    "lon": -73.9885,
    "type": "audit",
    "status": "Changing access · walk each parcel transition",
    "gap": "The question is continuity between separate open promenades, bridge approaches and future public spaces—not whether the entire canal is inaccessible.",
    "evidence": "420 Carroll’s esplanade opened in 2025. Carroll Street Bridge reopened to pedestrians and cyclists in June 2026. DEP’s canal facilities include future public-space phases. These changes make older closure maps unreliable.",
    "routes": "Verify gates, opening hours and crossing continuity on both banks. A waterside walking path is not automatically a cycle route.",
    "implication": "Keep this as a narrow-module study. The current 23 m section occupies most of the canal in our model, so access need does not establish a feasible DataBarge berth.",
    "next": "Walk both banks between Union and Carroll Streets, then the canal head; record each open endpoint and construction barrier.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Gowanus Canal Conservancy · 420 Carroll opening",
        "url": "https://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/gowanusblooms2025/"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYC DOT · Carroll Street Bridge reopening",
        "url": "https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2026/nyc-dot-to-reopen-carroll-street-bridge-over-gowanus-canal.shtml"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYC DEP · canal facilities and public-space phases",
        "url": "https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/gowanus-canal.page"
      }
    ],
    "model": "gowanus"
  },
  {
    "id": "sunset",
    "name": "Bush Terminal / Brooklyn Army Terminal",
    "borough": "Brooklyn",
    "area": "Sunset Park · industrial waterfront between public destinations",
    "lat": 40.6508,
    "lon": -74.0224,
    "type": "working",
    "status": "Active industrial shore · access projects in progress",
    "gap": "Public waterfront destinations sit within a working industrial district; a continuous shore promenade should not be assumed between them.",
    "evidence": "NYCEDC’s district plan combines industrial and maritime facilities with parks. Its July 2026 update describes Pier 6 reconstruction intended to improve public waterfront access.",
    "routes": "Distinguish open park entrances from a through route along the shore. Do not repeat the old closure of Bush Terminal Park’s 43rd Street entrance, which reopened in 2024.",
    "implication": "Potential host-and-infrastructure study, with substantial freight and marine constraints. Identify a short public connection that does not obstruct port activity.",
    "next": "Audit park-to-terminal access during operating hours and obtain the current Pier 6 and marine-terminal work boundaries.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "NYCEDC · Sunset Park district",
        "url": "https://edc.nyc/project/sunset-park-district"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYCEDC · July 2026 Pier 6 update",
        "url": "https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-welcomes-stickhub-vibrant-made-bush-terminal"
      },
      {
        "title": "NYCEDC · 43rd Street entrance reopening",
        "url": "https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-celebrates-groundbreaking-milestones-sunset-park-assets"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "flushing",
    "name": "Flushing Creek / fragmented shore access",
    "borough": "Queens",
    "area": "Downtown Flushing–Willets Point waterfront",
    "lat": 40.7575,
    "lon": -73.8392,
    "type": "audit",
    "status": "Community-documented need · exact links need verification",
    "gap": "Formal and informal waterfront access is fragmented around an industrial and transport corridor.",
    "evidence": "Design Trust’s waterfront-access documentation includes Flushing Creek. Guardians of Flushing Bay’s ecology mapping and waterfront advocacy identify shoreline restoration and access opportunities. Neither source is a current parcel-by-parcel route survey.",
    "routes": "Investigate connections between existing access points rather than presuming a continuous public shore walk or cycleway.",
    "implication": "A separate community-led ecology and access case, beyond the current Newtown and Gowanus models. Start with local needs and short missing links.",
    "next": "Walk the creek edges with Guardians of Flushing Bay and verify current private-project boundaries, legal access and gates.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Design Trust · waterfront-access documentation",
        "url": "https://www.designtrust.org/news/new-photo-exhibition-explores-fight-waterfront-access-nyc/"
      },
      {
        "title": "Guardians of Flushing Bay · ecology mapping",
        "url": "https://www.guardiansofflushingbay.org/ecology-mapping"
      }
    ]
  }
]