“The park would also include other distinct spaces, including a small outdoor dining area, an activity lawn that would be perfect for yoga classes or Frisbee tosses and a quarter-acre open lawn with an outer band of pavement where sunbathers could wander over to a popup farmer’s market.

“The park, which has informally been referred to as Wolfson Park or Neilson Street Park, would include terraces with stonewall seating in response to the severe slope of the tract.

“About 15 people attended Thursday’s meeting at the First Reformed Church on Bayard Street where William Reimer of Florham Park-based Matrix New World Engineering unveiled the park’s first concept plan.

“Much of the discussion surrounded the plans for the fenced-in dog park, which would be situated in the southwest corner of the lot, near the Esquina Latina restaurant and Liberty Street.

“The call for a space to be carved out for dogs on this grass-covered lot where the Wolfson Parking Deck once stood goes back to the first public meeting in December 2021, when Reimer and the city’s Director of Planning, Community and Economic Development, Dan Dominguez, began to solicit the public’s input.”