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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.

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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The NY Times Calls Gov­er­nors Island a Place to Find Tran­quil­i­ty in Busy NYC

Apr 16, 2013 3:45 pm
[cap­tion id=“attachment_6676” align=“aligncenter” width=“468”]Quiet space at the future “hammock grove”. Qui­et space at the future ​“ham­mock grove”.[/caption] In the hus­tle and bus­tle of the busy City, where are your favorite spots to go to find qui­et? Last week, the City Room Blog ran a pho­to of Gov­er­nors Island along­side a post ask­ing New York­ers where they go to find qui­et. What are your favorite places on (and off) Gov­er­nors Island to find qui­et? Tweet, face­book, com­ment below, or head over to the New York Times to leave your thoughts. The Times will pub­lish a curat­ed selec­tion of read­er spots lat­er in the sea­son. Right now things are pret­ty noisy on the Island as we progress towards fin­ish­ing the first phase of con­struc­tion on the Gov­er­nors Island Park and Pub­lic Space Mas­ter Plan. When com­plet­ed there will be 30 acres of new park­land open to the public.
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