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Preliminary work could begin as soon as next month on the ambitious $500 million plan to transform Governors Island into a premiere destination for cyclists, nature lovers, large-scale music concerts and rock climbing. Last December a consortium of five design companies was chosen to turn the flat southern part of the island into an oasis with manmade hills and a shoreline promenade. Ultimately (say, 2013?) 90 acres of parkland will be remade for anyone willing to take the seven minute ferry ride from Lower Manhattan.
Officials expect demolition of some old buildings on the southern end of the island to begin next month, with a groundbreaking to take place next year. These preliminary renderings here are impressive but far from final; the design consortium will be reassessing the plans this fall. In the meantime, the New York Philharmonic will be making their first visit to the island this summer, and the full lineup of concerts and events will be announced closer to the island’s season opening on May 31st.
Plans for the makeover include 3,000 free bikes like these for an Island-wide bike share program. (Rendering courtesy West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture.)
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lol wtf is this? Alice in Wonderland?
omg they should add unicorns. lol..
It's the Shire ! Frodo lives !
It's ridiculous and inappropriate. Why does the city need this when actual nature is a short train ride away? What focus group said the city needed a "Lord of the Rings" theme park to go rock climbing in? And can anyone name an outdoor concert venue that isn't struggling?
look at all those little hobbits riding on bikes and chatting on cell phones.
are those grazing deer I see? Have these designers ever been to Fire Island? The deer are disgustingly sick and overpopulated. Deer don't work on islands.
Will you people just stop this shit! $500 mil will get you a decent two bedroom condo in the year 2013. Once again these exercises in "the great scheme" benefits no one. If they want to do it right it is $5,000,000,000. And even that figure would be escalated by fifty percent by the time those that are in power fuck it up.
And can anyone name an outdoor concert venue that isn't struggling?
Saratoga Performing Arts Center?
I hope there's a Monorail
An anachronism from the pre-recession days of ego tripping, big ticket public works.
I'd be impressed if they could keep only the "Historic District" well maintained.
And can anyone name an outdoor concert venue that isn't struggling?
Tanglewood
Bethel Woods Center (new, but not struggling)
Millenium Park in Chicago, I think
How about a Beatles concert featuring Yoko Ono and John Lennon to kick off the concert season on Governors Island?
Woodstock, anyone?
I'm lovin' it! Sponsored by McDonalds.
How can I get there? Is there like a subway or bus service? Is there parking for my car? Do cabs go there at night? Can I bike there?
You have to love all the bullshit renderings of happy idiots blissfully biking and flying kites around the island while for the most part the island is only good for six months out of the year.
The greatest thing about the island is no one goes over there because they can't get over there.
Leave it the hell alone! I love it as it is -- like some abandoned college town...
Governors Island is a wonderful place. Why does it need to look like Washington state?
which way to castle greyskull?
make a left at sauron's place,
any elf or orc should be able to point out the
way from there. if you come upon hogwarts, then
you passed it.
It'll never happen.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Hippy dippy trippy. Wear your rainbow suspenders while you walk through this wonderland of bullshit whistling Electric Company tunes. And watch out for mimes: they will come from Homeland Security.
I hope it's like Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland.
If we would just allow people to live on the island they would have all the money they need for development. Fix the deed restrictions and you fix GI.