It's Official: Nouvel, Pretty Ponies Coming to BBP
On Saturday the governor’s office issued a press release confirming the rumor that Jane Walentas’s carousel will have a home in Brooklyn Bridge Park: “Jane Walentas has agreed to donate her restored 1920s carousel, along with a pavilion and $3.45 million toward landscaping and improvements to BBPDC. The Carousel will be located on the western…
On Saturday the governor’s office issued a press release confirming the rumor that Jane Walentas’s carousel will have a home in Brooklyn Bridge Park: “Jane Walentas has agreed to donate her restored 1920s carousel, along with a pavilion and $3.45 million toward landscaping and improvements to BBPDC. The Carousel will be located on the western edge of the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park inside the pavilion designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel. Ms. Walentas will also establish a non-profit entity, ‘Friends of Jane’s Carousel,’ responsible for carousel operations, expenses and revenue collection.” A New York mag story from a year ago about Walentas’s campaign to get the carousel in the park said Nouvel’s design for the enclosure involves a glass-walled structure in which the horses’ shadows prance “on the pavilion’s glass wall as they revolve by night.”
Governor Paterson Announces Major Step for Brooklyn Bridge Park [Room 8]
Jane’s Carousel Bound for Brooklyn Bridge Park [Brownstoner]
Photo by kdollnyc.
They are glossing over a key part of this story!
They are CUTTING DOWN ALL THE BEAUTIFUL TREES IN THE PARK FOR THIS! Anyone that has actually been to the park and seen them should know that they are part of what makes that park so beautiful. They are closing the park next summer (for the whole summer) to cut down the trees and put the carousel in. I am not making this up.
THIS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA! PLEASE, LET’S STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!
boy they got everyone of the elected’s to comment on the announcement….