Reply With Quote... and the comment on Kaufman?
Snobby snobby comments.
TL;DR for an ARTICLE.
GMA(MF)B! They can agree with the points or not, but complaining about "OMG this is too snooty WTFBBQLOL" is just insanely immature.
"Oh, the writer is from UC Berkeley"... OK, what does that have to do with anything?
... and the comment on Kaufman?
Now I gotta go re-read it.
THANKS Edd!
Exploring Manhattanville's West Harlem Piers Park
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[West Harlem Piers Park, located in Manhattanville, officially opened in 2009.
All photos by Nathan Kensinger.]
The landscape of Manhattanville is currently undergoing a radical transformation, as Columbia University constructs its campus extension in the heart of this formerly industrial neighborhood. Businesses and streets have been closed down and entire blocks demolished as part of a three-decades-long process. Alongside this ongoing demolition, the neighborhood has also seen the completion of several other projects, including the West Harlem Piers Park.
Officially opened in 2009—after a lengthy construction process—this two-acre park is located on the former site of what guidebooks describe as "a glass-strewn, prostitute-bearing parking lot."
Since its opening, it has become a neighborhood fixture, with many visitors even on a rainy weekday. Though small in size, the park includes a fishing pier, a boat dock, a kayak launch, several lawns, and seating areas for contemplating boat traffic on the Hudson River. Despite an abandoned garbage transfer station next door and commuter trains and car traffic zipping by overhead, the park is a surprisingly peaceful, quiet oasis in a neighborhood which is currently being dominated by demolition.
The park, situated on the shoreline of the Hudson River, is bordered by an overhead Amtrak line and the West Side Highway.
Designed by W Architecture, the park features a system of piers that jut out
into the river, including boat docks and a kayak launch.
The piers offer seating and fishing areas, with views of the Hudson River and New Jersey.
The park's fish cleaning station also operates as an impromptu waterpark.
A sudden downpour empties the recreation pier of fisherman and other visitors.
The clearing skies reveal views of the George Washington Bridge.
Scattered throughout the park are several sculptures by New York based artist Nari Ward.
These include "Signage Rail"—a collection of poetic road barriers that remind
visitors of the park's history as a parking lot.
Ward's work frames a view of an abandoned marine transfer station, once used
by the Sanitation Department to drop garbage into barges on the Hudson River.
Just two blocks away, much of Manhattanville's formerly industrial landscape
has also been abandoned and demolished to make way for Columbia University's new campus.
—Nathan Kensinger
West Harlem Piers Park [NYC Parks]
Official site: Nathan Kensinger Photography [kensinger.blogspot.com]
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/0...piers_park.php
Exploring the Bronx's Post-Industrial Concrete Plant Park
by Curbed Staff
[Concrete Plant Park, opened in 2009, is a seven-acre post-industrial park on the Bronx River.
All photos by Nathan Kensinger.]
Concrete Plant Park, which opened in 2009, is part of New York City's new series of parks that creatively engage their industrial past. Although overshadowed by its more famous siblings—The High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park—this seven-acre space is the city's answer to Seattle's seminal Gas Works Park. Both parks prominently feature structures from their industrial history, and both seek to bring the public to a polluted, neglected post-industrial waterfront.
Concrete Plant Park is located on the Bronx River, "one of the most blighted, abused waterways in the country," as the Times recently put it, and is part of the Bronx River Greenway, a project focused on renewing this body of water. Alongside its concrete silos, the park invites visitors to use its boat launch, waterfront promenade, chess tables, and a busy bike path. A peaceful but isolated outpost, the park is sandwiched between several busy bridges, and is cut off from the mainland by an Amtrak line and the Sheridan Expressway. On a hot summer day, few visitors can be seen in its sun-parched landscape, leaving its waterfront wilds to crabbers and skateboarders.
At low tide, Concrete Plant Park reveals a rocky shoreline.
As part of the Bronx River Greenway's bike path, the park is popular with
skateboarders and passing bicyclists.
Unlike Gas Works Park in Seattle, the park provides no access to its industrial relics,
which were fenced off after an initial period of accessibility.
The park's sole public access point to the Bronx River is a concrete stairway
used for launching boats.
A buoy collects debris and other pollutants in the river near the boat launch.
The park, designed by Jim Mituzas, mainly provides views to the water from
a promenade above.
Chess tables are set up in the open sun along the waterfront. "The budget
was tight, and the place lacks enough trees for shade," according to the Times.
A crab fisherman has found his own access to the riverside, under the cement
blocks of the promenade.
An undeveloped, closed-off section of the park highlights the wilder side of
the Bronx River, with debris and ruined docks under passing MTA trains.
—Nathan Kensinger
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/0...plant_park.php
That is nice.
I always liked the look of Industry being taken back by Nature.
And the fence around the relics is a no-brainer. The (second) thought in my head was "I wonder if I could climb it."
THANK YOU MONKEY ANCESTRY!!!!
The Grass Looks Greener On The Riverside
by Lissette Valdez
WNYC Transmitter Park Waterfront (Photo Credit: juliewoodnyc via Instagram)
Green outdoor space, outside of Central Park, is often thought of as a rare commodity in New York City; but now it doesn’t have to be. The recent opening of WNYC’s Transmitter Park on the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is one of the many projects that will be improving over 500 miles of shoreline across the city.
Breaking ground back in 2010, Transmitter Park is now finally open for the public to enjoy. As part of the Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy(WAVES) citywide initiative, Transmitter Park supports the plan’s vision to provide more open recreational space for the city’s residents and a functional waterfront that will no longer display decaying industrial sites. The park is also a result of the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning meant to provide local residents and visitors with continuous public access to the waterfront. The new park includes1.6-acres of open space with an esplanade for passive recreation, a new overlook to the south, new seating, and a pedestrian bridge built across an excavated historic ferry slip. The center of the park offers a large open lawn with a nautical themed children’s play area that reflects the site’s context, spray showers, and nature gardens.
Plan of WNYC Transmitter Park (Courtesy NYEDC)
Constructed upon the former site of the WNYC radio transmission towers, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, responsible for promoting economic growth within the five boroughs, oversaw the construction of the park. Funding for the $12 million dollar project included $9.6 million in city capital funds allotted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; $500,000 from the New York City Council; $400,000 by Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz; over $1.1 million in grant funds from the Federal Highway Administration and $370,000 in New York State Environmental Protection Fund grants; which are administered by the New York State Department of State.
The parks design can be credited to EDAW/McLaren Engineering Group/WXY architecture + urban design with The LiRo Group as resident engineer, and Phoenix Marine Co. Inc. as contractor.
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/46434
Exploring the Under-the-Radar Pier 44 Waterfront Garden
by Sara Polsky
[The Pier 44 Waterfront Garden in Red Hook is an unmapped park built on private property.
All photos by Nathan Kensinger.]
The Pier 44 Waterfront Garden is a Red Hook park that highlights the potential for creative, smaller scale development along New York's waterfront. Funded by local developer Greg O'Connell and opened in 2004, the park is situated on a small strip of private property managed by O'Connell's company, Kings Harbor View Associates. Although open to the public from 8am to 8pm, this unofficial park does not appear on Google Maps or on the 2011 NYC Cycling Map, and has no website. However, it has become a popular destination for both locals and visitors to the neighborhood.
Despite being relatively tiny in size and located at the very edge of Red Hook, the Pier 44 Waterfront Garden is at the center of this neighborhood's eclectic mix of small businesses, arts organizations, and historic structures. The centerpiece of the park is The Waterfront Museum, which is housed on a 1914 barge, and the park also serves as a bridge between two of O'Connell's most popular waterfront tenants: Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies is located at one end of the park, while the Fairway Market of Red Hook is at the other.
Alongside The Waterfront Musem, the park offers up a tidal beach, a boardwalk, a jetty, and a garden designed by Lynden B. Miller, who has created public gardens for The Central Park Zoo, Bryant Park and The New York Botanical Garden. The stated mission of the Pier 44 Waterfront Garden is to create "a place for quiet relaxation" and "an opportunity to learn more about plants, birdlife and the workings of NY Harbor." To that end, many visitors find themselves contemplating its stunning panoramic views of the working waterfront.
The park's waterfront boardwalk leads through a garden to Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie.
Benches along the boardwalk face out onto a view of the New York Bay.
At low tide a beach is revealed under the boardwalk, which includes a boat launch and the remains of an old pier.
Adjacent to the boardwalk, Lynden B. Miller's garden is dense with late summer foliage.
A grassy seating area is located next to the beach and garden.
The park is meant to be a quiet refuge on the waterfront.
more pics
—Nathan Kensinger
Public Garden Design: Red Hook [publicgardendesign.com]
Official site: Nathan Kensinger Photography [kensinger.blogspot.com]
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/0...ont_garden.php
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