New Yorkers are finding more and more ways to enjoy the hundreds of miles of waterfront weaving through this dense city. They kayak, ride ferries, and enjoy the pleasure of waterside parks. But how many of us know what happens out there, underneath the water’s surface? The Hudson River Foundation and NY/NJ Baykeeper are leading [...]
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has commissioned five teams to propose harbor infrastructure solutions to help make New York City more resilient to the effects of rising sea levels and climate change. This project is part workshop, part upcoming exhibit, and it’s called “Rising Currents.” From our vantage point in the middle of New York Harbor, [...]
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It’s the end of the season, and Bike and Roll is selling rental bikes on Governors Island at greatly reduced prices. Dates: Saturday 10/10 and Sunday 10/11 Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: Governors Island bike rental station (just to the left of the ferry landing) Ferry information: www.govisland.com 250 Trek Navigator 1.0 bicycles available in mens’ and [...]
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Ever wondered what Manhattan was like before the accretion of asphalt, tall buildings, millions of settlers and all their stuff? According to Dr. Eric Sanderson, the island was once a natural landscape of forests, fields, beaches and marshes supporting a rich and abundant plant and animal community including bears, wolves, songbirds, and salamanders. His book, “Mannahatta: [...]
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Photo by: nycscout Photo by: nycscout Recently announced: “Archeological Dig Opens to the Public on Governors Island” “Archeologists uncover remnants of a civilian hamlet abandoned in the mid 1950’s” Huh? Come see for yourself September 17-20 and Fridays-Sundays through October 11. Visitation and ticket information at www.archdig.wordpress.com Ferry schedule: www.govisland.com Thanks to the ScoutingNY blog [...]
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The New Island Festival will offer an exciting smorgasboard of happenings on New York City’s Governors Island from September 10–13 and again from September 17–20. Come discover provocative theatre, stunning site-specific performance, dazzling visual arts and exhilarating DJ sets, all performed by world-class Dutch performers. The New Island Festival brings the greatest elements of European outdoor [...]
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West 8, the leaders of the team designing the new park and public spaces on Governors Island, has been selected to design an important new civic park in Miami Beach. An announcement this weekend in The Miami Herald trumpeted that West 8 is known for “…delivering euporically original urban designs on a budget…” (read more here ). Lincoln Park [...]
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As we’ve been reaching out to the public through various avenues like this blog, exhibits, a survey, and meetings, people have given us all kinds of great suggestions for what they’d like to see and do in the future park. This “word cloud” shows you some of those ideas, with the size of the [...]
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As buildings have been demolished on the southern tip of Governors Island, raw open space has been created in the footprints of the old structures. We’ve been working with the West 8 design team to imagine ways of giving this space character and turning a flat barren area into a great destination. This transformation will happen in a number [...]
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Earlier this summer, we conducted a survey of Island visitors. Most New Yorkers avoid eye contact when approached by a stranger with a clip board. We were amazed at all the visitors who were kind enough to help us, and were very enthusiastic in the process. We interrupted your Scrabble game, your boat-watching, your miniature [...]
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