! Alert

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.

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.

Not Afraid of the Dark

[cap­tion id=“attachment_3952” align=“aligncenter” width=“468” caption=”“How many places in NYC can you see that big sky?“”][/​caption] Jamie Maslyn Lar­son from West 8  just sent us this amaz­ing pho­to of last night’s sun­set tak­en on her jour­ney to the Island. She and oth­er folks from the design team were out here to study the Island at night­time. They gath­ered lots of use­ful data to inform the light­ing strat­e­gy and design of the future park and pub­lic spaces. No reports of ghosts or zom­bies though. Darn.