Addressing an Corridor
Yale School of ArchitectureCritic: Anthony Acciavatti
2021
Independent Work
1 Model showing city-owned parcels with project interventions in white. Looking southeast up 39th St. in Sunset Park.
This is a
proposal for a series of soft sites along a 100-foot-wide rail corridor that
runs inland from Upper New York Bay along 39th Street in Brooklyn, NY. The eleven
half-block parcels comprising the corridor are owned by the City of New York. This
corridor is below-grade, a shallow depression through which runs the MTA D and the
decommissioned South Brooklyn Rail. These parcels are empty but are zoned to
accommodate 2.5 million buildable square feet. Using this potential
intersection of commercial and residential strips, the project facilitates safe
transit for pedestrians and cyclists heading to the shore for work and play, as
well as providing space for the various noncommercial and social activities of
existing communities.
















