Comments on: New Public Open Space Name Game Update http://govislandblog.com/2009/01/06/new-public-open-space-name-game-update/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Diamond http://govislandblog.com/2009/01/06/new-public-open-space-name-game-update/#comment-279 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:03:42 +0000 http://govislandblog.com/?p=845#comment-279 I greatly appreciate the coming up with names. My vote is for “Freedom Point,” although they are all great names. I was most fortunate to be stationed on Governors Island from 1961-63 as a draftee. Ha! Yes there was an Army draft, even in a “cold war,” pardon the pun.

Many times I have tried to write an account of my times there as “The View from Governors Island.” There was so much to write about. As a result of my time on that small island, I came to love the big island of Manhattan as well. Thus I’m a confirmed New York-a-phile.

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