Going Near the Water
Renovatuion Efforts Reclaim the City’s Forbidden Shoreline
August 18, 2003
By Corey Kilgannon
One morning last week, Zoe Klein, a 24-year -old circus performer from Brooklyn, stood practicing her act, which involved swinging a pair of tethered balls, and stared out to the Hudson River.
“Growing up in New York, I always felt boxed in,” she said. “I always knew we were surrounded by water, but it always felt dirty or inaccessible.”
Actually, it was not too long ago that the stretch of waterfront where she was standing was dirty and inaccessible. But it has recently been reclaimed as part of the Hudson River Park project, a lengthy effort to upgrade the West Side riverfront and install miles of landscaped public space and freshly paved pathways for runners, bikers and skaters. (more…)
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Park to Grow on the Ashes of the Riverwalk Plan
October 26, 1997
Efforts to revive a desolate stretch of shore on the East River, between 18th and 23rd Streets, have themselves been revived.
The redevelopment effort, began in the late 1980s as Riverwalk, a proposed development of luxury apartment towers, a marina, a hotel and offices, has metamorphosed into Stuyvesant Cove, a riverfront park.
After Riverwalk was officially scratched in 1992 as a result of fierce neighborhood opposition, talks among city and state politicians and community board members dragged along until last week, when the city’s Economic Development Corporation announced a plan for what people seem to agree is better. (more…)
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