Kent Avenue between North 9th Street and North 10th Street, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation 
Kiss + Cathcart, Architects
Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners

The first phase of the future 28-acre Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Park, Bushwick Inlet Park will include a multipurpose athletic field for intensive year-round recreation and a building for community facilities and park operations, which is covered by an occupiable green roof, allowing 100% of the park area to be used by the public. The green roof rises up from the park with a meandering path that provides access to a series of plazas on the roof/hillside and ultimately to an overlook two stories above Kent Avenue.

The design restores the waterfront to a living marine edge and intertidal zone with a freshwater pool to cleanse the site storm water, providing a water source for migrating birds, and includes a waterfront terrace, passive lawn and native plantings to enrich the public viewing experience of the East River and Manhattan.

On track to receive LEED Platinum certification, the building is designed to achieve high environmental performance standards with a highly efficient heating-cooling system that uses geothermal wells, heat pumps and radiant floors; a photovoltaic system, generating more than half of all the energy used in the building; and a rainwater collection system to provide the majority of irrigation water to the green roof.

Project Team

Kiss + Cathcart, Architects
Principal Gregory Kiss RA
Project Manager Jeff Miles AIA
Project Architect Clare Miflin RA
Project Designer Heather McKinstry

Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners
Principal Stephen Whitehouse
Landscape Architect Jeffrey Poor
Senior Designer Rachel Bentley-Fufezan
Project Designer Kevin Reilly

Robert Silman Associates
Senior Structural Engineer Scott Hughes
Staff Structural Engineer Nina Mahjoub

AG Consulting Engineering
Principal Gary Guleria
Senior Mechanical Engineer Angel Bautista
Project Manager Kulbinder Singh
Plumbing Engineer Mark Haynes
Plumbing Engineer Ardash Mequerdichian
Staff Engineer Gene Salle

Langan Engineer & Environmental Services
Principal DJ Hodson
Project Engineer Chris Vitolano
Senior Civil Engineer Michael Nilson
Geotechnical Engineer John Grillo
Environmental Engineer Joel Landes

AWA Lighting Design
Principal Abhay Wadhwa
Designer Tara White

Wesler-Cohen Associates
Partner Bill Ackerman
Partner Mark Keptsi
Partner Sol Cohen
Senior CAD Operator Matthew Mancheril

Roofscapes
Principal Charlie Miller

Rainwater Recovery Incorporated
President & CEO Philip C. Reidy
Senior Project Engineer Joshua Briggs

Community Environmental Center
Senior Energy Engineer Umit Sirt
LEED Consultant Larsen Plano
Director of Construction Services Jonathan Cramer

Construction Specifications
Specification Consultant Aaron Pine

Taitem Engineering
Vice President Lou Vogel

Department of Parks & Recreation
Commissioner Adrian Benepe
Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects Thérèse Braddick
Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Julius Spiegel
Chief of Design Charles McKinney
Deputy Chief of Design David Carlson RLA
Brooklyn Team Leader David Martin
Director of Architecture Vincent J. Colangelo, RA
Project Manager Randee Stewart
Deputy Director of Planning Nick Molinari 
Design Commission Liaison Amie Uhrynowski

Mayor's Office of Capital Project Development
Director Andrew Winters
Program Manager Tricia Zenobio-Metzger Esq