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Piers 25 and 26: A Bird’s-Eye View
I just crossed two items off my agenda (three if you count lunch): I took photos of the ducklings in BPC (more on them in a minute), and I used my BMCC ID—I occasionally swim in the pool—to get access to a classroom where I could snap some photos of Piers 25 and 26 and other unfinished parts of Hudson River Park. Which reminds me: My sincere apologies to the physics class I interrupted—I thought they were doing a study-hall thing—before I found an empty classroom. Last I heard, they were forecasting an October opening for Pier 25…. I left all these files huge, so you can enlarge them (just click on each one) to see the details.
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Any idea if the opening of Pier 25 will end the shared bike / walk lane nearby? I can do without minigolf, thankyouverymuch, but I’ll be *very* happy when I can walk without fear of getting clipped by a bike and when I can bike without dodging gaggles of pedestrians.
I have to imagine the bike lane will be restored at the same time, if not before, but I don’t know for certain. Just this afternoon, before getting baptized in the Hudson—”baptized,” I should say, because the only thing I’m religious about is Tanqueray in the summer, but more on the Hudson later—I made a conscious choice to walk up the east side of West Street, because I feel about it the way you do…. FWIW, even where there is a separate bike lane below Murray, the Goldman Sachs folks walk on it like they own it. Or maybe they do?
For a couple of days last week one of the security guards from Goldman Sachs was standing in the bike lane trying to move people to the inside pedestrian walkway and if you could see the look of annoyance and grunts of disgust from people it is amazing. They are annoyed that they have to walk 5 feet further to the walkway. I am amazed. Also, someone is going to get hurt as the Goldman employees walk across the bike lane to their waiting car service whose cars are parked in their private driveway all day long. When do they plan to open the crosswalk at Vesey and West again? I met this poor woman with a stroller on the east side of the bridge the other morning who had to turn around and go back because while the west elevator was working, the east one was out of service. Sounds like a cruel joke to have the elevator bring you up just to leave you stranded at the other side.
FYI I was just running in Hudson River Park and a bunch of Goldman Sachs employees were cleaning up trash that had washed up on the rocks near what I’m guessing is Little W. 12th Street—so they’re not all bad
May and June are the Global Volunteeer Months at all the big financial institutions. Expect a lot of by-the-numbers wall painting at at-risk schools, trash collection, and tree plantings by office workers in cheery matching teeshirts.