Seen & Heard: The making of Pier 26

April 7, 2022 Arts & Culture, Parks, Shopping

THE MAKING OF PIER 26
The Norwegian sustainable wood company Kebony has made a cool video of the making of Pier 26. I imagine it’s done to promote its product, which covers much of the pier, but it’s a great inside look at the design and build of a unique public park.

GAP IS NOW A FACTORY STORE
P. caught the new sign on the Gap store on Broadway and Maiden Lane: looks like it is converting to a Gap Factory Store…

ERIC CARLE AT THE SEAPORT MUSEUM
The South Street Seaport Museum will host a new discovery room of maritime-themed art by the late Eric Carle designed specifically for children aged 2-7 and their adults. The exhibition will be open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am to 5pm in April and May. In June, it will open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm. The exhibit incluxes huge immersive murals and activities, like meeting a live hermit crab, driving ferries on a giant play-table, and learning about cargo ships through the eyes of a rubber duck. Admission is $5 per child aged 1-12, with no charge for accompanying caregivers, teens and infants. Advanced timed tickets are recommended and can be reserved at seaportmuseum.org/ericcarle.

SEEMS LIKE A DECADE AGO…
James L. sent this photo he took on March 30, 2020, of the USNS Comfort, which sailed in to save the city. In the end, it stayed barely a month and served all of 182 patients. A total bust. But seeing this image is so evocative of those times…

 
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5 Comments

  1. G
    April 7, 2022 • 11:27 am

    Great Pier 26 video. Thanks

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  2. Maxine
    April 11, 2022 • 7:45 am

    I understand empty stores are bad for so many reasons.
    But a Gap Factory outlet?? This is what the neighborhood has come to?

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    • Broadway Mamma
      April 11, 2022 • 11:05 am

      What’s wrong with this store? I love outlet stores. Would you prefer another vape store?

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    • Luis Vazquez
      April 11, 2022 • 12:36 pm

      Why Not a Gap Outlet????? Many will welcome this. We need and should have more reasonably priced stores. It can’t all be Hermes, Tiffany’s and Louis Vuitton. :-) We need H&M, Zara and, yes, Gap Factory as well.

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    • N
      April 11, 2022 • 5:21 pm

      And that strip has long been home to chain stores. The location is on Broadway across from what was Century 21 and was a Gap for many years before the company closed it during the pandemic. For a while the signs implied they were using it as a mini warehouse/shipping location, but I never saw any goods or employees, at least at street level.

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