Download or read book A Collection of Printed Material Pertaining to the Rehabilitation of the Hudson River Waterfront on New York s Upper West Side and Riverside Park Involving the New York Central Railroad Company and Its Tracks written by Douglas Mathewson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal opinion of Charles Evans Hughes, memorandums to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, drafts of agreements, deeds, etc.
Download or read book Riverside Park written by Edward Grimm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverside Park is an illustrated tribute to Frederick Law Olmsted's "other" New York City sanctuary. Since its conception in the 1870s, the park has undergone a number of transformations and suffered from periods of misuse and neglect, but in 1984, much-needed renovations turned this city oasis into what is today one of Manhattan's most beautiful attractions. "If the West Side does not stir you, you are a clod, past redemption."-Robert Moses Millions visit the Upper West Side landmark annually, and despite the heavy use, thousands of volunteers keep the grounds pristine. The park is now being extended southward as part of Manhattan's plan to reclaim the island's six hundred miles of waterfront, and Riverside Drive-Olmsted's curving thoroughfare flanking the park-has long been one of Manhattan's premier addresses. "I often feel drawn to the Hudson River.... I never get tired of looking at it; it hypnotizes me."-Joseph Mitchell, from The Rivermen From the time it was carved out of an unpromising landscape, Riverside Park has continued to reinvent itself. Using photographs (both contemporary and historical), illustrations, poems, and original and excerpted narrative, Edward Grimm and E. Peter Schroeder tell the intriguing story of a symbol of the modern revitalization of New York City. "Riverside Park will be a genuine riverside reservation, dedicated forever to the use of the people, beautiful in the highest sense."-The New York World, April 24, 1892 *Includes the official Riverside Park Fund Map of 2007*
Download or read book A Collection of Illustrations Pertaining to the Proposed Redevelopment of the Hudson River Waterfront on Riverside Park and New York s Upper West Side written by Douglas Mathewson and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hudson River Panorama written by Tammis K. Groft and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated history of the Hudson River and its impact on the peoples and landscape of New York State.
Download or read book Creating the Hudson River Park written by Tom Fox and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4-mile-long, 550-acre Hudson River Park is nearing completion and is the largest park built in Manhattan since Central Park opened more than 150 years ago. It has transformed a derelict waterfront, protected the Hudson River estuary, preserved commercial maritime activities, created new recreational opportunities for millions of New Yorkers, enhanced tourism, stimulated redevelopment in adjacent neighborhoods, and set a precedent for waterfront redevelopment. The Park attracts seventeen million visitors annually. Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment. However, the park is also the embodiment of a troubling trend toward the commercialization of America’s public parks. After the defeat of the $2.4 billion Westway plan to fill 234 acres of the Hudson in 1985, the stage was set for the revitalization of Manhattan’s West Side waterfront. Between 1986 and 1998 the process focused on the basics like designing an appropriate roadway, removing noncompliant municipal and commercial activities from the waterfront, implementing temporary improvements, developing the Park’s first revenue-producing commercial area at Chelsea Piers, completing the public planning and environmental review processes, and negotiating the 1998 Hudson River Park Act that officially created the Park. From 1999 to 2009 planning and construction were funded with public money and focused on creating active and passive recreation opportunities on the Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen waterfronts. However, initial recommendations to secure long term financial support for the Park from the increase in adjacent real estate values that resulted from the Park’s creation were ignored. City and state politicians had other priorities and public funding for the Park dwindled. The recent phase of the project, from 2010 to 2021, focused on “development” both in and adjacent to the Park. Changes in leadership, and new challenges provide an opportunity to return to a transparent public planning process and complete the redevelopment of the waterfront for the remainder of the 21st-century. Fox’s first-person perspective helps to document the history of the Hudson River Park, recognizes those who made it happen and those who made it difficult, and provides lessons that may help private citizens and public servants expand and protect the public parks and natural systems that are so critical to urban well-being.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Highline written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hudson River written by L.H. Nelson Company and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Order for the Regulation of the Flow of the Hudson River Etc written by New York (State). Water Supply Commission and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters about the Hudson River and Its Vicinity written by Freeman Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hudson River N Y written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvement of the Hudson River written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riverside Park and Hudson River Waterfront written by West End Association, New York. Law and Legislation, Committee on and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hudson River by Pen and Pencil written by and published by New York : D. Appleton. This book was released on 1875 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hudson River Edge Development Proposal written by Urban Development Corporation. Wateredge Development Study and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hudson River from Ocean to Source written by Edgar Mayhew Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Waters of the Hudson River written by Charles Frederick Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vision for the Hudson River Waterfront Park written by West Side Waterfront Panel (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
