Design
Does New York Need a Floating Pedestrian Bridge?
This bridge would restore a link between Brooklyn and Governors Island.
New York hasn’t built a bridge in more than half a century. The next one could could look unlike anything the city has seen before.
“Citizen Bridge”—a proposal to build a floating pedestrian bridge between Governors Island and Red Hook in Brooklyn—is still a ways off from becoming a reality. But it is about to inch that much closer. A Kickstarter campaign to build a seventh prototype is just a few thousand dollars shy of its $25,000 goal, with about a week left to go.