The final, city-approved plan includes
several changes to the park proposal
submitted by the corporation. The
scheme before these changes can be seen
in the model photo on page 121.

1. A games lawn for informal games of soccer, etc., was inserted near the north end of the park; extending under the relocated highway nearby are courts for

basketball, handball, etc.

2. A 1.5-acre area of flat lawn adjoining the proposed park café.

3. Ruins of former piers (seen in photo, page 120), proposed for retention as relics of barge-to-rail transfers that once took place here, will be removed. One 750-foot pier, as proposed, will be rehabilitated for recreational use.

4. The proposed amphitheater was reduced in size after Parks Department review and turned slightly so that the park is not so sharply divided by it; seating was transformed into grass-covered terraces that will be inviting between programmed events.

5. A crescent of sloping lawn four blocks long would be the centerpiece of the park.

6. The proposed soft, "toe-in-the-water" river edge, with tidal grasses, was rejected by the Parks Department as a maintenance headache and replaced by "non-tidal wetlands" above stone rip-rap (drawing, facing page). Boardwalks looping out over the tidal river have been retained.

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