From architects and historians to novelists and developers, everyone's 2 cents have been combined into a 22-page PDF (download here). Native Brooklynite and author Jonathan Lehman said: "Look at the Mermaid Parade. That’s a thing where ...people literally came together and created something there that connected to the deep historical meaning of the place but was also new and strange and fun. It wasn’t about anyone taking profit and there wasn’t an immediate beneficiary and it helped reinvigorate the city’s imagination of the place and made it exist again." more ›