Riverside South Development

**NYatKNIGHT** · April 5th, 2006, 01:50 PM

**ablarc** · April 5th, 2006, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by NYatKNIGHT

So this is almost alright, right?

**ZippyTheChimp** · April 5th, 2006, 03:57 PM

Compared to this...

I'd say it's perfect.

**JMGarcia** · April 5th, 2006, 04:30 PM

I hear there's plans to replace the ill-fated tunnel between the WFC and WTC with a high viaduct along the BPC waterfront...

**lofter1** · April 5th, 2006, 04:41 PM

Didn't Libeskind have a circular ramp (aka viaduct for peeps) linking WTC + WFC in his original Master Plan?

**ZippyTheChimp** · April 5th, 2006, 05:20 PM

Who?

**JMGarcia** · April 5th, 2006, 06:13 PM

LOL

I needed a good laugh.

**BrooklynRider** · April 6th, 2006, 11:50 AM

I like the new park, but I think there is a big difference in quality between it and the Hudson River Park sections that are completed. The Trump Park (Riverside park?) seems to have been done on the cheap to some extent and the plantings are kind of mundane and repetitive. It is is an immense improvement over what was there before, but for me it is lacking somethingI can't quire put my finger on.

**finnman69** · April 6th, 2006, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by BrooklynRider

I like the new park, but I think there is a big difference in quality between it and the Hudson River Park sections that are completed. The Trump Park (Riverside park?) seems to have been done on the cheap to some extent and the plantings are kind of mundane and repetitive. It is is an immense improvement over what was there before, but for me it is lacking somethingI can't quire put my finger on.

Hanging out in the summer by the boardwalks is wonderful. All that sea grass makes me forget I'm in NYC. It feels like Amagansett or Cape Cod.

**JMGarcia** · April 6th, 2006, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by BrooklynRider

I like the new park, but I think there is a big difference in quality between it and the Hudson River Park sections that are completed. The Trump Park (Riverside park?) seems to have been done on the cheap to some extent and the plantings are kind of mundane and repetitive. It is is an immense improvement over what was there before, but for me it is lacking somethingI can't quire put my finger on.

I think that having something so large and tall (the elevated) running through it completely changes the scale of everything else in the park making everything seem somewhat small rather than a feeling of openess I think it would have otherwise.

**czsz** · April 6th, 2006, 12:52 PM

It feels like Amagansett or Cape Cod.

...if they were under a giant bridge...

Anyway, isn't sea grass inappropriate for the Hudson riverfront? It isn't an Atlantic beach...

**lofter1** · April 6th, 2006, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by czsz

Anyway, isn't sea grass inappropriate for the Hudson riverfront? It isn't an Atlantic beach...

As opposed to, say, a manicured lawn?

**czsz** · April 6th, 2006, 02:09 PM

It could have had little rock outcroppings to mimic the Palisades. Something more riverine. Hudson-y. They could have even tumbled something down from viaduct level ...

**NYatKNIGHT** · April 6th, 2006, 03:22 PM

The section just south of the last finished section is sort of like that - natural trees and plants, and rocks right down to the water. Is this a future part of the park, anyone? There is nothing but creepy camp sites and litter there now.