Hudson River Park

A particular favorite species of mine that lives in that kind of sloping intertidal shoreline are lion seahorses.

You can find them in Hudson River Park on the west shore of Manhattan.

Brooklyn Bridge Park, many other areas where there's piers and pilings and algae that they'd like to attach to.

And they come here during the warmer months to spawn and feed.

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I think the Hudson River Park is my favorite spot.

And it's a very long spot.

Yep, I was going to say that, but that's fine.

I live right near...

Hudson River Park, which is the downtown extension of Riverside Park.

And I go there, I walk a lot there.

I go to the gym.

And from the yellow fever to HIV to COVID, New York is fluent in the business of getting people sick for profit.

If that wasn't enough, by 1998, gentrification saw the opportunity to pave over this history for good and establish the Hudson River Park.

Amidst the cozy grasses, dog parks, overpriced cafes, and children's playgrounds, to this day there is still no commemoration for these deviants who endured centuries of all-out assault.

Dance, which had carried traditional societies all over the world through the ups and downs of life, had also been the fabric that held humanity together while colonialism and racism ripped it apart.

That followed a request for proposals that was issued in July.

Superlative has worked on outdoor venue sponsorships with the Hudson River Park Trust, the cities of Clearwater and Spokane in Florida and Washington State, respectively, and Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheater.

Under the $202,000 contract, Superlative will take an inventory of the waterfront assets, determine which ones have the best opportunity for sponsorships, and value them accordingly for long-term deals.

It will also review any existing contracts that may overlap such as through Be Our Guest to prevent conflicts.

Um, and this was a goal of this T- Trust for Public Land that I worked for for eight years after I was at, uh, New York City Parks, but it's also a centerpiece of Mayor Bloomberg's Plan NYC, the whole sustainable development plan.

And we achieved that largely through the transformation of, um, schoolyards into public playgrounds, a project invented by the Trust for Public Land, and by adding massive new parks like Hudson River Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park and the High Line and things like that.

But, you know, we had a sort of a golden age of park creation and expansion in the Bloomberg years.

And I'm optimistic that there's gonna be some new parks on the horizon for our, our current mayor, who seems to be a fan of parks with a, a brilliant new parks commissioner, Tricia Shimamura.

The project died.

The land eventually became Hudson River Park.

This is not a bad outcome.

One, the Cross Bronx Expressway was built before NEPA existed, so was Interstate forty through Overton Park in Memphis, which did go to the Supreme Court in a case that shaped the environmental review requirements that followed.