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Stay safe in the heat: Drink plenty of water, spend time in the shade, and visit the first aid station at Soissons Landing if you feel unwell. Click here for important warm weather visitor information.

Stay safe in the heat: Drink plenty of water, spend time in the shade, and visit the first aid station at Soissons Landing if you feel unwell. Click here for important warm weather visitor information.

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Field Report: Turn­ing Park­ing Lots Into Parks

Oct 9, 2012 8:27 pm
It’s hard to imag­ine, but Gov­er­nors Island had over 2,000 park­ing spaces before we began con­struc­tion. But now, many unused park­ing lots are being trans­formed by the Gov­er­nors Island Parks and Pub­lic Open Space project. [cap­tion id=“attachment_6025” align=“aligncenter” width=“402”] Last week, the crews start­ed dig­ging up the park­ing lot next to Sois­sons Land­ing (where Man­hat­tan fer­ries land) to make the perime­ter road safer and more com­fort­able for pedes­tri­ans and cyclists.[/caption] [cap­tion id=“attachment_6023” align=“aligncenter” width=“468”] And the sea of asphalt sur­round­ing the South Bat­tery was torn up to make way for…[/caption] [cap­tion id=“attachment_6024” align=“aligncenter” width=“468”] …a green rest­ing spot along the But­ter­milk Chan­nel that high­lights the impres­sive his­toric fortification.[/caption]
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