Right This Way to The Waterfalls
In case you didn’t get your fill of the Waterfalls yesterday, we’ve got one more post for ya: A reader drew our attention to these pictographs that now dot the streets in Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights. The shot above comes from the bottom of York Street and the one on the jump comes, via the…
In case you didn’t get your fill of the Waterfalls yesterday, we’ve got one more post for ya: A reader drew our attention to these pictographs that now dot the streets in Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights. The shot above comes from the bottom of York Street and the one on the jump comes, via the reader, from the corner of Henry and Clark. Makes sense—we’d guesstimate that about half the lunchtime crowd at the Pop-Up Park yesterday were European tourists.
Pop-Up Park Pops in Brooklyn Bridge Park [Brownstoner]
The Waterfalls Start Falling [Brownstoner]
Of course they aren’t totally privately funded. What jerkoff would spend his own money to help support this piece of garbage. Philanthropy? I think not.
Actually they are not totally privately funded. At elast 2 mil was from the LMDC and there are other monies as well
I’m not here to be vulger but honestly my pee has a stronger force then those wimpy waterfalls. I think the water is pumped by 2-3 garden hoses. I am not impressed and the money could have been better spent in NYC. The MTA is threatening to raise fares and we waste money on drippy water falls. WTF?!?!?!
I’m glad the harbour seemed alive but it is rather unsustainable.
As I said above, wind turbine towers in the harbour would be brilliant…okay…and they might cause rubbernecking at first as well.
I say again, I agree with adam in his comment above and also think what mule wrote makes sense.
With any luck, the regular commuters will tire of the waterfall under our bridge soon so traffic will go back to being the normal-slow but not massively-slow.
BTW, this trendoid artist’s show was very poorly realized indoors as well. The mylar on the ceiling looked a mess. And the promoting of the show was shameless.
And to the nut who communtes by car: Where are you coming from and going to that you cross the Bklyn Bridge, take the FDR, etc. for work? I hope you work “in the field” and therefore have some massive justification to drive in.
I’m thinking of joining the people who bike over the bridges. They look like they’re digging it in the morning when I’m on my Q-train. They have a little bit of work getting up to the middle of the bridge but can coast the entire way down from the midpoint. Seems fun…just don’t know if I could hack the whole thing to midtown.
FGG (FortGreeneGardener…not Felix Unger)
We just took the free water taxi from Wall Street and got a great view of the water falls. I wasn’t overwhelmed, but they’re kinda cool. Most of the people on the free water taxi were tourists. Between the water falls, the performance festival on governor’s island and the free water taxi to Ikea, the harbor seemed alive and vital for once.
The spray would probably feel good this time of year… but it’s fresh outta the East River! AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I just took a walk at lunch to look at the waterfalls from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial off Water Street.
They suck.
3:30, good post. im neither an art snob nor a lover of the waterfalls, but the complaining is over the top in its absence of knowledge or logic. its fine to dislike these on aesthetic grounds but to say
– the traffic is jammed all the time
– its costing us so much money that could be used for something else
– its using tons of resources/electricity
just shows you really dont know what youre talking about, and look plain dumb.
i commute by car across brooklyn bridge, fdr, and lower manhattan every day, and no material traffic issue. these are mostly privately funded. the electricity is less than a rounding error in comparison to all the public facility use of electricity here (street lamps, parks, etc)
3.30 your comment makes no sense. whether there visually interesting is up to debate.i like the nets but doesnt mean atlantic yards should be built. do you not expect most people to slow down to look at something thats never been there before. do you know the concept of rubbernecking. if only 1 car slows down everybody behind does too. how many cars do you think travel the BQE in both directions?? if a human sacrifice was taking place on the side of the BQE people would slow down too, would that be ok too(maybe if MOMA called it art). my point is that anything thats on the side of the road thats not usually there causes rubbernecking which slows down traffic to a crawl.