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# Squibb Park Bridge Bounces Back
- URL: https://bklyner.com/squibb-park-bridge-bounce-back/
- Published: 2017-04-10T17:32:46.000Z
- Updated: 2017-04-10T17:33:44.000Z
- Author: Pamela Wong
- Tags: News, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, Arup, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Heights, HNTB, James Yolles, Squibb Park Bridge, Ted Zoli, #wp

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[Squibb Park Bridge](http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/park/squibb-park-bridge?ref=bklyner.com), the bouncy, wooden pedestrian walkway that connects Brooklyn Heights to Brooklyn Bridge Park opened to much fanfare in March 2013, only to shut down in [August 2014 due to structural problems](http://nyti.ms/1ORAUwi?ref=bklyner.com).

Though an official date has not yet been set, the bridge remains “on track for a spring reopening,” James Yolles, a spokesperson for Brooklyn Bridge Park confirmed to BKLYNER last week.

The Park enlisted the engineering firm [Arup](http://www.arup.com/?ref=bklyner.com) to redesign and oversee repairs to the $4 million, 450-foot-long bridge, Yolles said, getting it back in safe, usable condition.

With repairs now complete, Park officials took a test walk last week, and are currently waiting on an inspection and approval to reopen the bridge to the public, [Brooklyn Paper reports](http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/15/dtg-squibb-bridge-repairs-complete-2017-04-14-bk.html?ref=bklyner.com).

Designed by 2009 MacArthur Fellow Ted Zoli, an engineer at HNTB, the bridge zig-zags over the BQE. In 2016, Brooklyn Bridge Park took Zoli and his firm to court in a $6 million law suit over “faulty design,” [according to Brownstoner](http://www.brownstoner.com/neighborhood/brooklyn-heights/brooklyn-bridge-park-suing-creator-bouncy-squibb-bridge-6-million/?ref=bklyner.com).

The costly repairs to the pricey bridge ran upwards of $3 million, [according to Brooklyn Paper](http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/15/dtg-squibb-bridge-repairs-complete-2017-04-14-bk.html?ref=bklyner.com).

As Joanne Witty, a Vice Chair of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation and author of *Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed,* told BKLYNER [earlier this year](/a-dying-waterfront-transformed-digging-into-the-history-of-brooklyn-bridge-park/)—

“It’s going to reopen this spring. It’s been totally reengineered and it won’t be quite as bouncy but I think the bridge is so quintessential…where else can you walk down this crazy bridge that zigs and zags and moves around?”