Governors Island had a simple dream: to create its own hammock paradise from the ashes of its worn down, unused fields. All that was standing in its way was a couple hundred million dollars needed in order to execute the ambitious project. But today, DNAInfo reports that Mayor Bloomberg has approved $150 million for the city-administered island...which means we are that much closer to a grove of cloud-kissed hammocks.
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Governors Island One Step Closer To Hammock Heaven
Brooklyn Kickballers Scared of Saplings
The Brooklyn kickballers have a new opponent this season: twenty freshly planted baby trees! The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday that the leafy obstacles were planted as a part of Mayor Bloomberg's Million Trees program, and affect all three kickball fields. Allegedly the city chose that spot in order to restore the area to Gilmore Clark’s 1936 design. They told us about how in the past "McCarren Park was decimated by the Asian Long Horn Beatle crisis and lost more than 50% of it's tree canopy coverage."
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