The area under the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan is a forbidding swath of rubble and construction equipment, cut off from the sky by six lanes of clattering bridge traffic. To most of the world, it communicates a single message: keep out. To Rosa Chang, it conveyed something different: New York City’s next great park. She wore a bright red dress and high-wedge sneakers and the beatific smile of a true believer. “I see children playing, I see trees, I see old people sitting down talking to each other.

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Persons: Rosa Chang, City’s, Chang peered, ”, “ Locations: Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan