Gothamist: Governors Island Makeover to Start Soon

GM

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:15:52 -0500

I hope it's like Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland.

sonyactivision

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:01:51 -0500

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.

Kevin Walsh

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:48:32 -0500

It'll never happen. www.forgotten-ny.com

ihateallbrokers

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:02:33 -0500

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.

Gregoire

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:32:44 -0500

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?

Snoopy

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:30:45 -0500

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.

Perishism

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:18:42 -0500

Woodstock, anyone?

Snoopy

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:09:18 -0500

How about a Beatles concert featuring Yoko Ono and John Lennon to kick off the concert season on Governors Island?

EricGewiz

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:04:15 -0500

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

Think twice

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:53:22 -0500

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.

spiritross

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:51:55 -0500

I hope there's a Monorail

TKaisen

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:35:53 -0500

And can anyone name an outdoor concert venue that isn't struggling? Saratoga Performing Arts Center?

Snoopy

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:22:48 -0500

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.

JGNY

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:22:29 -0500

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.

obsoletest

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:22:23 -0500

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?

RooseveltIsland360

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:20:24 -0500

It's the Shire ! Frodo lives !

matty

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:20 -0500

omg they should add unicorns. lol..

Kojak

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:20 -0500

lol wtf is this? Alice in Wonderland?