Massive campground to invade Brooklyn

The National Park Service is planning to turn Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, the former airport where both Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes took flight, into the nation’s largest urban campground. The field currently houses five campsites, but according to the Associated Press, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said earlier today that number will expand to 90 over the next two years, and ultimately could grow to 600. “We want to make New York the leading example of what we can do around the country with urban parks,” Salazar said. The development project is part of President Barack Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative, and the park service will be working with local New York and New Jersey agencies to link the region’s waterfront parks with a New York Harbor trail. [AP via Crain’s]