Grand Army Plaza Berms & Paving at Bailey Fountain Located North of Prospect Park and at the confluence of FlatbushAvenue, Vanderbilt Avenue and Eastern Parkway, in the Borough of Brooklyn
Landscape Preservation Commission Review DOCKET # LPC-20-00160 August 13, 2019 Justine Heilner, Prospect Park Alliance
Total Budget: Mayor, Bill de Blasio - $2.95m FY19
Project Size: Portions of 13 acres GRAND ARMY Prospect Park PLAZA
Grand Army Plaza | Project Location 2 The Plaza was one of the first parts of Prospect Park to be built. orkW began on the mounds (berms) and pavement almost immediately after the design was approved. The Plaza was paved with Belgian block and the walks with a new form of concrete. Completed by 1880, the fountain was “the most conspicuous ornament of the Plaza,” designed to relieve what would otherwise have proved a “monotonous and too utilitarian” space.
During the 1880s, grading, planting, pruning, and other improvements to the entrance area and surrounding streets were implemented.
Grand Army Plaza | 1874 MAP & FIRST FOUNTAIN 3 c. 1897
In the midst of many architectural and sculptural renovations (including the Installation of the Soldiers and Sailor’s monument and the entrance column ensemble), Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot took on the project of refurbishing the landscape of the Plaza. Their work involved rerouting the trolley tracks at the north end to cross in front of the north mound, extending the mound to provide a platform for waiting visitors, and planting a curb along the lines of the east and west mounds to enclose the trolley tracks and create a second platform.
In 1897, a new electric fountain designed by F.W. Darlington was installed and its predecessor demolished. The new piece was simpler than Vaux’s fountain, but its form was secondary to the complex, colorful, illuminated displays it was designed to create. The fountain was an immediate success and became immensely popular.
Grand Army Plaza | 1901 MAP & SECOND FOUNTAIN 4 The greatest changes to the Plaza during the first decades of the twentieth century occurred in conjunction with the construction of Brooklyn’s subway lines. The subway forced the removal of the Plaza’s original paving and beloved electric fountain, but otherwise the space retained its original form and layout. The third fountain to grace the Plaza, designed by architect Egerton Swartout, with bronze sculptures by Eugene Savage, was installed between 1929 and 1932. The paving was changed to bluestone bands in ashlar pattern and granite block in fan-pattern, all bound by low granite walls as we see them today.
A chain link fence erected around the mounds in the 1930s broke up their gentle contours and diminished their intended rural effect. An ungainly newsstand and bus shelter, constructed on the west mound in the 1960s of timber framing with corrugated metal. Various minor refurbishments also improved the Plaza’s appearance: in 1962 the plumbing, paving, lighting, and steps were rehabilitated in order to repair damage caused by subway vibrations and water leakage.
Grand Army Plaza | 1937 SURVEY & THIRD (CURRENT) FOUNTAIN 5 2000 2019
In 2001, the Prospect Park Alliance embarked on a project to reconstruct and stabilize Bailey Fountain and the surrounding Plaza area. By this time, the pavement around the fountain had become warped and sunken, the steps dislocated, and the sculpture tilted to one side as a result of subway vibrations. The fountain was removed, restored, and reinstalled with a sounder foundation, new pumps, and new plumbing, and the surrounding pavement and landscape were refurbished. Bluestone paving was added around the JFK Memorial.
From 2002 Landmarks Preservation Commission Advisory Report:
“The Commission finds that the removal of concrete pavers will not remove significant historic fabric; that the new granite and bluestone pavers will enhance the landscape and sculpture; and that the new granite and bluestone pavers will protect the surrounding area from further damage due to water infiltration;...”
Grand Army Plaza | 1997 SURVEY & 2002 RESTORATOIN 6 Existing Plan Proposed Plan Asphalt Roadbed Asphalt Roadbed
Landscape Landscape MTA Vent MTA Vent
Fountain Fountain
Landscape Landscape
Asphalt Roadbed Asphalt Roadbed
Contract Desire Line Low Wall Granite Setts Bluestone Pavers Granite Paver Granite Enlargement 1 Enlargement 2 Enlargement 3 Limit Line Band around Cobble In-Kind Restoration & In-Kind Restoration In-Kind Restoration JFK Monument Ramp to Design Change & Design Change Roadbed
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Grand Army Plaza | Bailey Fountain Paving - Existing & Proposed Work 7 Existing & Proposed Plan In-Kind Restoration & Design Change
Replace Bluestone Pavement, Ashlar Pattern, on Concrete Foundation
Replace Concrete Curb
with Granite Curb PHOTO 3 PHOTO 1 PHOTO 2
PHOTO 1 Reset Regrout Existing Existing Bluestone Bluestone PatternGranite Continues Setts Pavers
Install Bonded Wood Fiber at desire line to Replace Bluestone make a 3ft wide path Pavement, Ashlar Depress section of Pattern, on Concrete Install Bonded existing Foundation Wood Fiber at Granite desire line to Wall to be Replace Concrete make a 3ft wide flush with Curb with Granite path adjacent Depress section of existing Granite Wall Curb pavement Regrout Existing to be flush with adjacent pavement Granite Setts Design Change PHOTO 2 PHOTO 3
Grand Army Plaza | Enlargement 1 - Existing Photos & Proposed Restoration Plan 8 Existing & Proposed Plan In-Kind Restoration No Design Change
Regrout Existing Granite Setts
Replace Bluestone Pavement, Ashlar Pattern, PHOTO 1 on Sand Cement Foundation Reset Existing Bluestone Pavers at outer band PHOTO 3 near low wall PHOTO 2
Regrout Existing Granite Setts
Replace Bluestone Pavement, PHOTO 1 PHOTO 2 Ashlar Pattern, on Sand Cement Regrout Foundation Existing Granite Setts
Reset Existing Bluestone Replace Bluestone Pavement, Ashlar Pavers at outer band Pattern, on Sand Cement Foundation near low wall
PHOTO 3
Grand Army Plaza | Enlargement 2 - Existing Photos & Proposed Restoration Plan 9 Proposed Plan Existing Plan
30’-2”
29’-9” PHOTO 1 PHOTO 2 Granite Flush Granite Curb Granite Paving Band ‘Sierra Granite Cobble Granite Paver Bluestone Bluestone Pavers JFK Monument Setts on Concrete White’
Pavement, Tacticle
Ashlar Pattern Foundation, Fan Continues
Ashlar Pattern, Pattern Bluestone Bluestone Paving Pattern, to match on Concrete existing Foundation Bluestone Bluestone Paver Band Pavement on Concrete JFK Monument Continues Foundation Granite Curb Design Change
Grand Army Plaza | Enlargement 3 - Existing & Proposed Restoration Plan 10 Install Bluestone Pavers on Concrete Foundation, Ashlar Pattern Install Granite Paver Setts on Concrete Foundation, Fan Pattern, to match existing
Bluestone Pavement Install Flush Granite Curb Continues Granite ‘Sierra White’ Tacticle Paving Strip
PHOTO 1 PHOTO 2
Grand Army Plaza | Enlargement 3 - Existing & Proposed Restoration Plan 11 PLAZA STREET WEST (ASPHALT ROADWAY) (ONE WAY TRAFFIC) PLAZA STREET WEST Legend (ASPHALT ROADWAY) (ONE WAY TRAFFIC)
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PLAZA(ASPHALT STREET ROADWAY) EAST (ONE WAY TRAFFIC)
PLAZA STREET EAST
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Grand Army Plaza | Berm Landscape - Proposed Restoration 0’ 50’ 100’ 12 Missing or broken chain link fence, vegetation in need of pruning, invasive plant removal, restoration of woodland
Grand Army Plaza | Berm Landscape - Typical Site Photo 13 2’-6” Ht Steel Fence to replace Chain Link Fence Bluestone Pavers, ashlar pattern, on concrete Granite Sett, fan pattern, sawn and sanded finish, on concrete
Granite ‘Sierra White’ Tacticle Paving Strip 2’6”
Bluestone Pavement Continues
Detectable Warning Strip, ‘Sierra White’ Granite Bonded Wood Fiber w/ Steel Edging
Grand Army Plaza | Proposed Site Materials 14 4" x 4" x 4" GRANITE BLOCK PAVERS- SPLIT SIDES / SANDED TOP FACE (IRIDIAN) ANGULAR SAND SETTING BED 1.5" THICK ROMEX JOINT COMPOUND 1/2" EXPANSION JOINT NEUTRAL COLOR TYPICAL WELDED WIRE MESH 6" x 6" - W2.9 x W2.9 2" CLEAR ALL SIDES 1/16" BLUESTONE 14” PAVEMENT
REINFORCED CONCRETE 4" 14” 8" FOUNDATION MATERIAL 4" 4"
1'-0"
New Bluestone Pavers on Concrete New Granite Sett Pavers on Concrete Detectable Warning Strip, ‘Sierra White’ Granite
BONDED ENGINEERED WOOD FIBER
MESH NETTING GRID, SEE SPECS
BROKEN STONE, SEE SPECS GEOTEXTILE, SEE SPECS
1 4 IN X 5 IN X 16 FT STEEL EDGING 8" SEE SPECS 3" 3"
Granite Block Curb Bonded Wood Fiber w/ Steel Edging
Grand Army Plaza | Proposed Site Details 15