Seen & Heard: Updates on Two Pedestrian Bridges

••• Janine Ferranti‘s lovely watercolor of the sunset as seen from the Loopy Doopy bar atop the Conrad.

Loopy Doopy sunset watercolor by jmferrantiart••• Two updates from the reader who goes by Hudson River… First, “the ghost bridge, formerly the Brookfield pedestrian bridge over Liberty Street. No discernible progress on it for some time.”

Brookfield Place Liberty Street bridgeSecond, “the Liberty Street pedestrian bridge over West Street, finally adding the extension that connects it to the highline park on the east side.”

West Street bridge at Liberty Park••• Anyone interested in New York City history will find this website on Greene Street riveting.

••• Thank to the reader who sent in this pic from yesterday’s TV shoot in Battery Park City: “Yes, that’s the props person carrying the mannequin across the street, in front of the fake cop car and news truck.”

bPC body••• Opening Sept. 12 at Taymour Grahne Gallery: “Missing Real, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Daniele Genadry. Marking the artist’s first solo presentation in New York, the exhibition includes a large-scale floor installation, paintings, works on paper and photo-based collage that investigate the unseen realities which contribute to our sense of familiarity and challenge our perception.”

Imbedded (Missing Real) by Daniele Genadry

 

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