Inside the $70 million plan to build a beach in Manhattan...

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Inside the $70 million plan to build a beach in Manhattan...

James Corner Field Operations, the landscape architecture firm behind The High Line, has unveiled a waterfront design that includes everything from a giant ball field to a sandy beach.

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On a squat rectangular peninsula jutting out from Manhattan’s Meatpacking District into the Hudson river, a new kind of waterfront park will soon take shape. With gardens, waterside promenades, a giant ball field and, most uncommonly, a sandy beach with access to the water, the new park is redefining how New York and other cities can embrace the water on their doorsteps.


Part of a four-mile network of waterfront spaces that make up the Hudson River Park, this newest element is known as Gansevoort Peninsula. A public-private partnership funded primarily by the city, construction on the $70 million project is beginning this spring. It’s scheduled to open to the public in 2023.



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This is the story: https://www.fastcompany.com/90608902...h-in-manhattan

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Gee, will people be going into the water there? (snortlaugh) Or is it strictly a beach built on ground up taxpayer dollars?

Considering how much economic damage Cuomo's lockdowns caused, this would be a foolish extravagance even in the best of economies.