City to Greenpoint: So Sorry About That Unfinished Park

According to a spiked Times article obtained by New York Shitty, a quiet little Greenpoint waterfront park (okay, it faces Newtown Creek, so we're not sure how much of that front is technically facing "water") was "substantially completed" back in 2007, and yet it's still closed to the public. Before the city started renovating it as a sweetener to the 2005 "condos galore" rezoning plan, this spot at the northernmost tip of Manhattan Avenue was just a humble little dock where locals would go "to fish, to boat, to lunch," according to Christine Holowacz at the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks & Planning. But nobody's been able to use it for years, even though to the untrained eye it looks pretty much complete, with new benches and a kayak launch. The problem is that a railing built to keep residents from falling into the creek and mutating into toxic avengers wasn't up to code, and, well, good parks take time! But now one city official tells the Brooklyn Paper that locals will at last get their park back during the spring: "We apologize. We understand the frustration. But it will just be a little longer."