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]
I hope the food vendor at the Pop-Up Park is using those salad bar sneeze guards! Nothing worse than noxious chemicals and microbes in one’s grilled tilapia fish tacos!
FGG
who are you? Felix Unger?
Get over it, NY is a dirty city.
maybe you would be happier in a remote yodel-village in Switzerland.
The bay is so much cleaner than it has been in a hundred years. Whatever germs are in the mist I’m sure would be eaten by the germs on any subway car at rush hour.
I’ll join TDCWN.net now. I think the spray of noxious water is truly a health hazard.
I mean, this is not the water jet in Geneva. Granted I wouldn’t want to drink that water straight out of the lake BUT it is MUCH safer than the water in the harbour…considering the huge storms we have had, I wonder how much waste has made it’s way in to the harbour the last month. The storm runoff normal street litter and petrochemicals would be enough pollution swept into the harbour (not to mention the Brooklyn Valdez leak seeping into the waterways) but the fact that there is sewage overflow is unsafe.
FGG
As I rode my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday evening a stiff wind was blowing and the spray of the one by the promenade was pushed back onto the towers. It looked pretty weak and unimpressive. And the towers are ugly. They could have been so much more architecturally interesting than pipe scaffolding.
This is the opposite condition of The Gates for me. When I heard about The Gates it sounded dumb but in reality I thought it was impressive. The waterfalls sounded neat in concept but in reality are lame.
i posted as adam before. i saw somebody stop their car on the highway yesterday to look at it. did i mention the display is crap. this is public art at its worst. how come when there is a subsidy for ratner everyone crys but i have to pay for this pile of junk and say its cultural?? alright atlantic yard detractors and those who are against brooklyn bridge park whos going to help me get rid of this thing thats ruining traffic up and down brooklyn. traffic is backed up all the way to the verrazano today. anybody experiencing noticebly increased traffic??
forget DDDB im starting TDCWN (take down crap waterfall now)
1:07,
You assume that the city and those controling it, care a fig about what ordinary people pay for gas or whether they will be delayed by traffic logjams. They do not. Instead, they want to show their counterparts in London and Berlin and Dubai how cool and wealthy the upper class is in NYC. It’s about them, it’s not about us. If it were about us, they would use the money to install air conditioning in city schools so our children don’t bake.
Yes, adam,
I agree with the poor planning of the traffic issue. Many people talked about the impact on traffic but the plan for the “waterfalls” was approved. Having the MOMA Good Seal of approval (and MOMA board mbrs shoulder-to-shoulder with the muckimucks helps too). Hhhh…public art installations have to be thought out much more thoroughly.
The only one that looks decent from Brooklyn is the one on Governor’s Island.
the waterfalls are creating a traffic nightmare on the BQE and the gowanus expressway and lots of brooklyn.
I drove 2 x on the BQE last night on the way to devo traic was moving great from bay ridge but then got backed up 2 miles into the waterfalls due to rubbernecking. as soon as i passed the waterfalls the highway was empty. traffic was backed up the same way in the other direction. today the bqe is a nightmare again by the waterfall.
with gas being over 5 dollars a gallon for diesel (4 for regular) truckers are consumers are probably going to spend millions of dollars in extra gas. not to mention all the extra pollution caused by the back up. and the residual back up as 4th avenue is a disaster also. this is much worse then atlantic yards!! traffic backup for a crap art display costing millions of dollars for consumers. it should be shut off tomorrow or limited to its hours!!
the city forgot to take this into the equation. should fix immediatly.
adam