New York, NY – A group of researchers thinks Lower Manhattan could go even lower.
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The Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University says New York City could fill in part of its harbor and create a new peninsula extending to Governor’s Island.
Researchers say the idea isn’t so farfetched. The government plans to dredge 180 million cubic yards of dirt from the harbor over the next decades. The center says it would only take about 23 million cubic yards to connect Lower Manhattan and Governor’s Island.
The center’s proposal was reported on Wednesday by the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/viXOET).
In the 1970s dirt from the original World Trade Center site was used to fill in the Hudson River and create Battery Park City, a planned community near the tip of Manhattan.
There goes another toll booth.
Total narishkeit for several reasons. A) If you fill in the harbor, you are creating hazards for the boat traffic on the east river. B) The Feds sold Governors Island to NYC with the understand that no developers can go in and change its character. C) The island has become a refuge for the Heimeshe Olam who bring their families on Sundays in the summer. Not all Yidden go to the Catskills for the summer.
Manhattan doesn’t need any more dirt.