This week’s New Yorker magazine features an excellent New-Yorker-article-length article by Nick Paumgarten about the redevelopment of Governors Island. The video below follows a tour with Paumgarten and Leslie Koch, the president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation.
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This piece, by staff writer for the New Yorker,Paumgarten was facinating and informative at the same time.
I could not put it down.
A good read!
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