Join online today and as a special thank you, we'll send you a free rucksack as well as a one-year subscription to Sierra magazine and the City Sierran.The Brooklyn waterfront is priceless property. When most of the waterfront industry moved to New Jersey, neighborhood residents realized that they had to come up with a plan to not only preserve open space, but design a vision for a world class waterfront park. Through countless meetings they decided on 13 “Guiding Principles” to develop the land as a public park.