That stupid park in the Hudson

Is Bermuda windy?

Is this the new Sondheim musical?

Is this park in the Hudson River?

I’d like to check it out, but it’s going to be crowded.

Who’s bending down to give me a rainbow 🌈

Everyone knows it’s Windy!

Great addition to NYC.

Great cruising!

Thanks uncle Barry

Gay Uncle Barry can give me a gift as long as he doesn't touch my privates.

Looks so cool’. I’ve watched it get built and glad it’s finally open

Is it "alfresco"? Does air move? How can we find out?

Will they open a Meijer's there?

Looks nice

It would be great to enjoy it empty but it’s going to be packed with humans ugh.

Bring back 24 hour, open-air fucking on the piers.

I can see Uncle Bottom yonder in the brush.

[quote]Is this the new Sondheim musical?

Not new.

I wonder if Diller was just building The Ramble Downtown.

Mr. Diller is a very well known pussy hound and has never put a dick into his pouty lips.

He never sucked your cock, either Diane.

You will need to reserve a ticket to get in. This will prevent overcrowding.

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[quote]You will need to reserve a ticket to get in. This will prevent overcrowding.

The park is open from 6am- 1am, r21. Ticketing is required only between noon and 8pm.

[Quote] You will need to reserve a ticket to get in. This will prevent overcrowding.

Yes but they will pack as much as they can on it. $$$$$$ talks! Plus all the "Look at meeeee" cunts will be there bragging on social media. How boring will that be.

The mushrooms move up and down right?

Hissss!!!!

New thingsssssss!!!!

Hissssss!!!!!!

3 acres? The house I grew up in is on a lot that size and that is pretty small. It will interesting to see how they cram so much into such a small space.

It does look nice when you see the video of people walking under/ over it (swipe)

R27 This is a gay site and we do not appreciate your lowly innuendo

Is there a wooded area abutting?

There is a Ramble but it’s for serious birdwatchers only.

There's a sucker born every New York minute.

Is there abutting?

So what you are saying, R23, is that if you live a normal life, especially sleeping in on weekends YOU WILL NEED A TICKET.

R33 Only in the heavily wooded Ramble for serious birdwatching only.

Ugh runners all over the place.

[quote]So what you are saying, [R23], is that if you live a normal life, especially sleeping in on weekends YOU WILL NEED A TICKET.

Not exactly, r34. At r23, I was giving out information on the park hours, and clarified which hours you will need a ticket for. Not everyone keeps "normal" hours. You will also not need a timed entry ticket if you have a ticket for a performance.

Here's their site:

How dare you. Dianne has never muff-dived in her life.

Security guards will be monitoring any anti-social behaviour. No penis-action permitted!

Aerial gardens are unnatural.

The cost of maintenance will necessitate a great reduction of planting in 10 years.

Maybe now the Brits will revive their Garden Bridge scheme.

^ Silly woman

Nothing will be going on in this park except constant unending photo taking of the person/s taking the photos.

^^^ Of themselves.

All reservations for the rest of May have been sold out.

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How many Duane Reades does it have?

Does it have unisex toilet facilities?

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I've been. It's disturbingly like a set from "The Prisoner" or "Logan's Run," very fake.

Oh great: another Insta backdrop. How very 2015.

Well, Manhattan has been being transformed into a grandiose theme park since Giuliani.

It reminds me of the Atoll in Waterworld.

The hot dog/snack stands are a horrible idea.

I really think it looks stupid. A concrete forest with an Astroturf canopy.

Beware

Was this the inspiration?

Will this be another suicide attraction like that silly set of stairs designed by the same company?

There bringing in a velvet rope

Bottle 🍾 service

R60 They’re*

[quote] Was this the inspiration?

I think it was this.

Just booked my time for June. Thanks for the heads up OP!

The need for ticketing is exactly why I’m so sick of NYC. Everything gets so fucking crowded immediately.

If courses all weekends are completely sold out

It might be a good time to go to Governor’s Island instead. And aren’t they opening up the potter’s field of an island for fun times too?

Ticketing timed entry is pretty standard for all places during the pandemic. I just had to do ticketed time entry for four museums in Dallas.

I love it

How can it sell out, I thought it was free? Are they scalping tickets already?

"Sold out" was just used as an expression for no more tickets left. Technically, they're "selling" for zero.

Are we sure Epstein didn’t initially underwrite this as a pet project with sinister applications?

"Getcher wet teddy bear!"

(Ya gotta have a gimmick)

After just having to remove dozens of trees that had grown too large for their spots, I don’t envy having to replace this white elephant every few decades or so.

Central Park, you in danger, gurl. NOT.

How fucking pissed off are the UESers that they didn’t get something like this for their exclusive use, a floating UES Grammacy Park if you will.

R16 - since the early 70s the UES has had Greenacre Park - a really lovely mid-block park funded and maintained by the only Rockefeller sister Abby Mauze. It’s on the small side but beautifully laid out and maintained - a total 70s design time capsule, with a small cafe, plenty of seating and a huge waterfall - I worked on that block and often went there on my lunch hour.

[quote] I don’t envy having to replace this white elephant

Maintenance will be expensive.

I bet it will be scaled down and all grass replaced with paving and all trees replaced with pot plants.

The organization that built Little Island is financing the next 20 years, r78

OK R79, it will start deteriorating in the year 2042.

It's only interesting when viewed from a helicopter. At water level, it's a concrete monstrosity.

Like the High Line and Hudson Yards it will be a one time visit for most New Yorkers unless they live nearby, but otherwise fodder for tourists. Build it and they will come even though there isn't much to do there.

At water level, you see the grubby stains and the utter fakeness of it all.

At water level, it looks like something suggested by that 'Riz Fahlani[?]' person who specialised in enormous concrete vaginas.

They should use this aesthetic for the Vessel and cover it with lovely plants and trees.

Thanks for informing me of this, as I don't live in New York. I think this looks weird, Disneyfied, and ugly.

The trout mouths are flocking there now to snap selfies. Yassss Kweeeen!!!

It looks like something you would see on the wall of a dentist's office.

If anyone goes, does it have the vertigulous feel you get in the photos or is that just an optical illusion?

R49 reminds me of the end of the Marx Brothers "At the Circus" where the symphony orchestra is shown in full play while they are floating away into the Atlantic Ocean.

Anywhere else this would be considered an eyesore. And hundreds of millions to build? Yeah right.

The rotting unused piers and the tow pound were eyesores. This is interesting.

R91 Actually, they were quite beautiful, some of the most prominent artists of the 1970’s and 1980’s and many of them gay created magnificent works of art, especially conceptual and installation art,on the piers.

Point taken R92, but that was half a century ago - they haven’t looked like that for decades.

It looks like something from the Truman Show.

Thanks Mike Bloomberg! I love the fantasy theme park version of Manhattan for Trust Fund Kids!

From above

I’ll never understand why NYers go crazy about these fey little projects that cost a fortune. This thing is small, ugly and adds nothing.

I went over the weekend. It was fairly underwhelming. The paths are pretty, but it's windy and uphill, so not nearly as walkable as, say, the High Line. The park also doesn't have sufficient grass and all the picnickers were cramped together. There's a giant area by the food trucks that should have been grass and trees, but is paved instead.

R98 just go to Central Park. There was no need for this contraption.

^ or Riverside Park if you want to be near the Hudson River.

I miss my abandoned rundown piers - with no one there. Now it’s a perpetual crowd with no place to just enjoy. This is like the High Line - nice idea but way too crowded perpetually so,it can never quite be annoyed for what it is.

How long until the first private residences are built on the water? I'm guessing 2040.

Maybe it will become its own Principality someday, it looks bigger than Monaco.

[quote]How long until the first private residences are built on the water? I'm guessing 2040.

There are plenty of them in Queens, r103, many from the turn of last century.

It’s a generous gift plus 20 years maintenance from the Von Dillers - infinitely better than the rotting pier.

A perfect location for Super Mario Brothers cosplay.

But extremely stupid if you ask me.

Go from 6 am - noon & one doesn’t need a ticket. I liked it.

[quote]Go from 6 am - noon & one doesn’t need a ticket. I liked it.

Maybe they can offer free ESL courses.

Au contraire, R97; most New Yorkers couldn't care less about tourist attractions/traps such as this.

Have people started killing themselves off it yet? The Vessel is now requiring that people come in twos, no singles allowed. I hope someone files a class action suit against them. Also, people who still want to kill themselves will now have a close friend or family members as witness.

R111 Or they can have double-suicides.

This bridge is favourite for suiciders

This was a sweet story that didn’t quite require its own thread, buts since it’s NYC parks related I thought some here might find it enjoyable.