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Due to a planned New York Harbor closure and planned street closures in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island will close at 3PM on Friday, July 4, 2025. More info.

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Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Land­scape Archi­tects Hon­ors Gov­er­nors Island

Nov 11, 2014 3:28 pm
[cap­tion id=“attachment_7850” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]Trust for Governors Island President Leslie Koch is honored at the ASLA's 100th Anniversary President's Dinner Trust for Gov­er­nors Island Pres­i­dent Leslie Koch is hon­ored at the ASLA’s 100th Anniver­sary Pres­i­den­t’s Dinner[/caption] Trust for Gov­er­nors Island pres­i­dent Leslie Koch was hon­ored on Thurs­day at the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Land­scape Archi­tec­ture’s NY Chap­ter din­ner. The ASLA rec­og­nized Leslie’s ​“ded­i­ca­tion to trans­form­ing a valu­able New York City water­front asset into a world class des­ti­na­tion.” Leslie was hon­ored along­side Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion pres­i­dent Judith Rodin and New York 1 News. The ASLA not­ed that Gov­er­nors Island’s 30 new acres of park and pub­lic spaces, designed by West 8, are an ​“oasis in the mid­dle of New York Har­bor” that ​“will stand the test of time.”
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