(Photo: Rendering by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)

As if there weren’t enough knockout parks in this city, the Babylon of New York playgrounds is set to open this Saturday, at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 (Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street, Cobble Hill). The harborside green is sectioned into four equally stupendous play areas: There’s Swing Valley, which includes Tarzan-style ropes and double-seaters; Slide Mountain and its thirteen-foot winding tube slide; a 6,000-square-foot Sandbox Village; and the Water Lab, with a moat, a domelike fountain, and a wading pool. Later this summer, a free water taxi will make the five-minute trip back and forth to Governors Island.

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