MANHATTAN PARK CALLED MOST SIGNIFICANT ADDITION IN 150 YEARS

摘要

New York city is set to open the first piece of a new $380-million park that will ultimately become Manhattan's second largest, 150 years after Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux began design work on the borough's other great retreat, Central Park. The first of six sections of Hudson River Park, a study in modern landscape engineering, will be dedicated May 29. The park is being built atop a five-mile stretch of bulk-headed, pier-studded river front reclaimed from generations of industrial and warehouse use and a long slide into dereliction. When completed in about seven years, the park will have 150 upland acres and 400 acres of water cupped between 13 amenity-laden concrete piers, most over 800 ft long.