New York State’s Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation, along with the Trust for Public Land, commissioned conceptual design through construction administration for several phases of park development on an eight-acre post-industrial site along the East River. It was critical to retain the character of the site, which had been home to the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, a shortline railroad and marine terminal, particularly amid the massive wave of redevelopment that occurred in the neighborhood in the first decades of the 2000s. The first step was to make the site safe to visitors and after that, gentle grading altered its topography and native plants were added to select pioneer species that had volunteered their growth during long periods of disuse. Fragments of train tracks, train shed platforms, the bases of concrete columns, and cobblestone pavement were retained as found design elements and as testament to the past.