Regina Myer

Regina Myer is President of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the corporation responsible for the creation and construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park. As president, Ms. Myer oversees all aspects of the Park, including design, construction, maintenance and operation. The 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park will stretch approximately 1.3 miles along the East River from Atlantic Avenue to north of the Manhattan Bridge, transforming the downtown Brooklyn waterfront into a civic space for all New Yorkers. Now led by the City of New York, Brooklyn Bridge Park will be one of the most significant public investments on the waterfront outside of Manhattan in the 21st century. Brooklyn Bridge Park was the recipient of a 2010 Municipal Art Society Annual Award. Most recently, Ms. Myer has been senior vice president for planning and design at the Hudson Yards Development Corporation. Previously, she served as the Brooklyn Borough Director for the New York City Planning Department, directing the comprehensive redevelopment for two miles of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront, the rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn for high density commercial space and apartments and the rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn for high density commercial space and apartments and numerous neighborhood rezoning efforts.