Another happy-making aspect to the announcement is that the exceptionally talented architect Jeanne Gang (NRDC Midwest Council member, and MacArthur "genius") has been tapped to do some of the boathouse design work.
"I planted it," he says, "just outside the boathouse where I work".
The two-mile trail, inspired by a poem about the walk Thomas wrote on his 30th birthday, offers views over the Laugharne boathouse where he worked.
Mr Davies also said that he believed the city should be the setting to celebrate Thomas, whose later years living and working at The Boathouse in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire are well-documented.
They include a Wales-wide theatre production tour of A Child's Christmas in Wales, new productions of works including Under Milk Wood and a series of activities centred around the boathouse in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, where Thomas worked in his final years.
She also takes commissions from nonbirders who spy her painting at her regular work spot in the Boathouse cafe at the Ramble's eastern edge.
Union officials say they have asked the National Labor Relations Board for a back-to-work order for 14 Boathouse employees who have been fired since the union began its organizing drive.
Boathouse workers have complained of inconsistently applied work rules, managers who played favorites and tips they never received.
After Jeremijenko's doctor's appointment, she headed to the Lower East Side Ecology Center, a community organization that works out of an old boathouse in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge.
The sky had already begun to clear Tuesday morning, but Paris Yavuz, 27, was still feeling a lingering, annoying effect of the rainfall as he worked the counter at the Boathouse Cafe near Echo Park Lake.
But workers at the Boathouse say it is anything but a pleasant place to work.
