An architect, Alan Abraham, then showed a potential redesign of the area that would connect the racecourse to the local railway station via a green walkway.
Within these incongruously elegant bounds, vegetation has taken over the rail bed, creating a narrow green walkway past funky nightclubs, aging factories and warehouses, and both old and new apartment buildings.
The buildings, faced in locally quarried stone with features like archways, are organized along quiet cul-de-sacs in orderly neighborhoods to be linked by green walkways and outer ring roads.
The next important step is for Gov. George Pataki, who likes the general idea of a shoreline park, to come stand on a lonely quay, imagine green walkways instead of Port Authority eyesores and give the project his weighty stamp of approval.
The day started out with the various musicians scattered around the grounds, so that you could catch solos and larger groups as they performed in lushly green walkways, formal gardens and woodland areas.
Closer to the theater, a row of seven New England-inspired houses is arranged in a crescent, porches all facing a small green and walkway.
Multiple uses such as light industrial and commercial businesses, housing, a green and walkway, antique street lamps, an artist's colony in vacant old buildings and repair of the city's dilapidated hilltop riverfront staircase would combine to invigorate the downtown.
The cafes and theatres are in huge tents, and as we walk along the green carpeted walkways, people are handing out free samples of crisps.
And she says the mere presence of the farm, which added new green space, walkways, and benches to the center of Wagner Houses, has brought together people who had stopped crossing paths.
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The master site plan, by David Chipperfield Architects, calls for the creation of additional green space and walkways; new visitor amenities, like a cafe; and new buildings for art.
