After a 27-year restoration project, the near-century-old Jane’s Carousel will open to riders at Brooklyn Bridge Park on September 16. Though she relied on carpenters and engineers to repair rickety horses and modernize the electrical system (adding 1,200 glinting lights in the process), carousel namesake Jane Walentas—who bought the merry-go-round back in 1984 with her husband, the developer David Walentas—painstakingly tended to most aesthetic details herself. Housed in a square acrylic pavilion designed by architect Jean Nouvel, the year-round ride affords spectacular, in-the-round views of river, bridges, and skyline(11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Tuesdays; Brooklyn Bridge Park, East River nr. Dock St., Dumbo; 718-222-2502; $2 per ride).