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The Department of Transportation announced that additional sections of “The Arches,” a greenspace area on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, are now available to the public following a decade of construction work. This returns one-third of an acre of space to the community, and includes access to more than a dozen tall shade trees, including oaks, elms, and Japanese pagoda trees, as well as 16 benches.

