A map of the fully completed park.An additional five acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park are now open, including the first 2,000 feet of the greenway, a 30-foot wide, scenic bikeway and walkway along the East River shoreline between Old Fulton Street and Pier 2.

"After we opened the first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park earlier this year, the park quickly became one of New York City's most popular open spaces, and there's so much more to come," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "The opening of the next five acres of the park makes it an even more attractive place to visit, and moves us one step closer to our goal of building the full 85-acre park."

In order to provide complete and continuous public access to the portion of the park already open at Pier 6 on Atlantic Avenue, the new section is connected to an interim path on the uplands of Piers 2, 3 and 4. The interim 900-linear-foot section, built by the NYC Department of Transportation, includes a two-way bike lane and a 10-foot wide pedestrian path, and connects to a temporary, protected path along Furman Street between Montague and Joralemon Streets.

The newly opened sections of the park also include a recently established tidal salt marsh with an adjacent seating area composed of granite blocks salvaged from the old Willis Avenue Bridge in the Bronx. Planted with smooth cord grass, the tidal marsh will be a home to marine and aquatic bird life and allow park visitors to witness up close the tidal movements of the East River.