Photo: Brendan Crain, Yeju Choi center in front of the Catch&Release installation

Our Seaport team closed phase 1 of Catch& Release on Saturday March 15 with a well-attended site visit co-produced with OHNY (Open House New York, the leader in urban tours). WXY Architecture + Urban Design’s Adam Lubinsky and Design/Relief designer Yeju Choi led a walking tour that explored the proposed site of the Brooklyn Bridge Beach, part of the East River Blueway Plan, and finished the walk with our pop-up participatory installation Catch — & — Release, to understand how social and infrastructural strategies for addressing the void created by the FDR can work hand-in-hand to reconnect the neighborhood with its waterfront.